Great post by Michael from back in June. People often want to filter the Wizard presented by LTI to only display certain things depending on what you pick. Michael has a nice post on how to use selection profiles to do just that. Read the full blog here. Here’s a snippet: I’ve talked with several…
As a business owner or manager, two of the most important — and difficult — decisions you will ever make are hiring and firing someone. Find out more about this delicate art by ready my ABJ Entrepreneur column.
Full Article and download is linked here. Installing Windows 7 isn’t just about migrations. It’s about daily management. It’s about rapid deployment to fix problems. It’s about provisioning virtual desktops in a VDI infrastructure. With today’s technologies for user virtualization and application virtualization, fixing some IT problems can be fastest accomplished by simply rebuilding the…
My early experiences running User Acceptance Testing (UAT) typically involved dealing with just 1 or 2 users. When they encountered an error, they’d show it to me, and I’d record it. However, as I gained experience in Quality Assurance, I worked on larger projects. Training – How to write a bug On my first larger…
Some of you may know that I like to treat each major new Microsoft product release like a goat at a Mongolian barbeque…meaning I like to perform the end user equivalent of bashing it over the head with a blunt object, pinching the aorta, stuffing its intestines with warm blood, cramming hot rocks into the…
Great post over the The Configuration Manager Support Team Blog talking about USMT 4. Here’s a snippet: Suppose you want to use the USMT 4 feature of hardlinking in a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Task Sequence, but you notice that the "Capture User State"/"Capture User Files and Settings" and "Restore User State"/"Restore User Files…
Business analysts (BAs) and business analysis can play many different roles on projects using Scrum. This is a healthy topic to discuss as an organization, whether you have BA’s as team members or you train developers/architects to do good business analysis. This posting is not going to try and cover all possible uses for business…
The known issues in P2V Migration for Software Assurance beta are categorized as follows: · On Windows XP operating systems, Disk2vhd.exe is hidden during the Capture VHD phase, but it is minimized to the task bar in Windows Vista. Clicking Help/Cancel in the Disk2vhd.exe tool while the Capture VHD task is running is not supported.…
For Lite Touch Installation (LTI) deployments using MDT 2010 Update 1, P2V Migration for Software Assurance requires the following components: · A functional installation of MDT 2010 Update 1 with mapped deployment shares on the client computer targeted for P2V Migration installation. The installation process for P2V Migration automatically copies required components to the MDT…
Microsoft Connect: P2V Migration Beta 2 The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit team is working on a new solution incorporating Sysinternals Disk2VHD into the desktop migration process. Participation in the Beta Program for P2V Migration for Software Assurance is happening now, and we’d like your help! If you are not already a member of the MDT beta…
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