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Another great post by Michael Murgolo over on TechNet for automating the ConfigMgr client PATCH property instead of hard coding the path and packageID. Read more here.
Jeremy Chapman has created the third blog in a series on the benefits of using package based imaging tools. Read the third post here. “This is the third and final blog in the series . In the last blog, The Pros and Cons, I covered the main benefits and underlying drawbacks of file-based and sector-based…
Have you ever printed a document to a printer at work, when you’re actually at home and happened to be connected on the VPN? You hope that you make it to work early the next day to get your tax return from the printer before someone else picks it up. Or perhaps you’re not…
That little post on Portfolio Analysis in Excel that I threw out into the Interwebs a couple of weeks ago seemed to engender a surprising amount of conversation – both online and off. As I’ve stated before, I am not a math major, but figuring that as of this writing we had three distinct comments…
Steve Rachui has another great Configuration Manager post over on his blog, this time about how to create a web page that allows OSD users to setup imaging themselves without having to use the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 console: OSD is a powerful imaging tool but setting up systems to be imaged may require…
Have you see this error yet? If you haven’t, you will. This is one of the most common errors and can be seen while performing a variety of functions within Exchange 2010. I continue to see this issue pop up so I decided to write a post on it. Most recently I saw this while…
As promised, here are the slides for my presentation at the System Center Virtual User Group on Friday, August 20th: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys/Presentations/Software%20Updates.pdf.
It has been a busy August for us in the IT Department at Catapult. We have been heads down with a breakthrough network technology from Microsoft called DirectAccess. This blog post describes what we encountered and some considerations for enterprise deployments. What is DirectAccess? The vision of DirectAccess is to keep clients continuously connected to…
This question came up in the newsgroup a little while ago, and intrigued me enough to play around with it. The question was how to add Departments to the Issues and Risks reports in Project Server 2010, so that you can report a rollup of how many issues or risks exist on projects by Department. …
I received a question today asking me, “How long does site to site replication take?” I figured this is a good question because simply it doesn’t have one answer. Depending on type of replication, it could have as many as three or more answers. Replications can be distinguished with a priority of High, Medium, or…