Have you ever heard the saying, "One picture is worth a ten thousand words"?1 In the realm of requirements management, a single picture or diagram can support numerous verbose textual requirements and convey a concept to the reader in a quick glance without requiring lengthy description. One of the most useful diagraming tools that can…
Have you ever wondered why a ConfigMgr client takes a long time to run the advertised programs after you deploy this client using ConfigMgr OSD? Well, this is because as soon as the machine is imaged, it gets added to the ‘All Systems’ collection and gets the advertisements/policies that are targeted to the All Systems…
The following is a list of known issues that relate to UDI deployments: · If you receive error 404.3 when browsing to the UDI Designer web service, this error is typically the result of the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) multipurpose Internet mail extensions (MIME) type not being registered correctly. To register the WCF MIME type…
This information is provided as-is, you at your own risk. Updated my HTA for creating AD groups and collections with a few tweaks and wanted to post the new version. I originally blogged an older version here. I had taken an HTA from SMSUtils and heavily modified it to do what I needed. I have…
There is a way to access the K2 API from blackpoint, although I will make the disclaimer that this is not supported in blackpoint. I will go over the steps of calling the GoToActivity method of the API from a reference event within the K2 designer for K2 blackpoint. Within K2 designer, you will need…
Personal smartphones are becoming more and more common in business environments. Companies have always struggled with managing who should have the ability to sync their phones and who can’t and what types of phones are allowed. Exchange 2010 SP1 has made it very easy for the administrator (or any other appointed person) to approve or…
The information provided in this post is provided as-is, this is most likely unsupported, proceed at your own risk. There are times when you may need to move the source files for your packages from one location to another. Maybe your server is running low on space, or you just want to reorganize things a…
I was looking through my LiveWriter queue this week, and realized that I had a couple of posts left over from the last several months that I never posted. This is one of those posts. I originally wrote it for Microsoft Project 2007, but it should be just as applicable to the 2010 version. (The…
Great post over on The Deployment Guys blog that talks about a VDI Optimizer tool that creates a VBScript that can be used to customize Vista and above images for use in a VDI environment. Read the entire post here. “One of our MCS deployment guys in the UK – Jonathan Bennett (you may know…
Jason Sandy’s has some nice posts on setting up ConfigMgr V.Next over on his blog. ConfigMgr v.Next (Beta 1) – Schema Extensions ConfigMgr v.Next (Beta 1) – Prerequisites ConfigMgr v.Next (Beta 1) – Setup
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