The known issues in P2V Migration for Software Assurance beta are categorized as follows: · Uninstalling the P2VMigration.msi does not remove the Tools folder created in %InstallDir%\P2V Migration for Software Assurance. One workaround is to manually delete the P2V Migration for Software Assurance instance created in the Installation directory. · Clicking Cancel during P2V Migration…
Stephen Rose has a nice post over his blog that discusses the history of the the P2V Solution Accelerator and goes into a little more detail about the product. “By now the announcements have gone out for the Beta, been blogged about and seen in other social networking channels, so I thought I would do…
Server Core is an interesting “edition” of Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 that offers some potentially nice benefits: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd163517.aspx. Because of these benefits, many folks have started using Server Core in their enterprise but how can we start inventorying which systems are server core and which are not. This question lead me on a…
Trevor Sullivan has a nice post over on his blog talking about inventorying your systems to find out which systems don’t have the Group Policy Preferences installed. He’s also included a WQL query for you use to build a collection. Read the blog post here. Good job Trevor!
One thing you may note as part of your upgrade process from 2007 to 2010 is that there are a number of custom fields that have been added to the Microsoft Project desktop client. Why is that, you ask? Well, it just happens that as part of the retooling to support the Manual Task Mode,…
Fact: Email Address Policies (EAPs) will apply during a mailbox move. While everyone is currently planning on their Exchange migrations to Exchange 2010 :), you will want to take some time to look at your EAPs and users that are exceptions to the policies. The last thing you want is that call right after the…
The Nexus SC blog has posted some great info on migrating users to Windows 7 while keeping the users previous Windows XP (or newer) environment available to them in the new OS. It’s like having your cake and eating it too: Hey everyone, if you are considering any type of client migration on you way…
The Client Installation and Assignment SuperFlow is a dynamic, interactive content model that provides you with detailed steps that you can use to prepare for and install the Configuration Manager 2007 client. This SuperFlow also provides you with the dataflow for background processes, additional resources related to client installation, and troubleshooting information for common issues.…
We’ve all been there – doing maintenance late at night. You think you’re just about done, and then something unexpected happens. Tonight was one of those nights =) Rebooted the OCS Front End server and then the services would not start. The system event log recorded this error message: “The Office Communications Server Front-End service…
Michael Murgolo has another great post over on The Deployment Guys, in this post he has created 2 wizard panes to present during an LTI deployment that allows selection of the roles and features you would normally configure in the Task Sequence ahead of time. Read all about it here.
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