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OSD++

infrastructure

Announcing my latest venture into coding and improving the experience of Operating System Deployment: OSD++. OSD++ is a better way to get input from the user and populate task sequences variables. It retrieves values from the registry, queries WMI, and/or prompts the user for input via an input box or a drop-down box. All values…

OCS on IPhone 3.0

infrastructure

Since I have an IPhone, I was thinking, "Wouldn’t it be great if I can have OCS on my IPhone?". Well, Guess what!?! There is a piece of Software that allows you to have the same access as you do with your OCS client on your desktop and it’s called, "iDialog". Two Catches! First, since…

Central Texas SharePoint User Group: “Building Scalable Enterprise Applications with MOSS 2007”

General

Central Texas SharePoint User Group: "Building Scalable Enterprise Applications with MOSS 2007" September Program Description: There are techniques that organizations with experienced .NET developers should use to develop scalable, distributed, high performance applications for SharePoint Server 2007. Successfully delivering SharePoint applications should involve programming techniques that focus on optimal code execution and efficient application delivery.…

What defines success for IT Operations?

General

  What must an IT Department do to be successful? Running an IT Department requires diligence across many technology disciplines. Here are some suggestions for IT Management, that if met, will bring IT Operations closer to success. When the latest security patches have been applied to all servers. We use Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)…

SharePoint Farm Performance Recommendations

Applications

The recommendations described in this section are general guidelines and best-practices to apply to a SharePoint implementation.  The majority of the items listed here are not of my own discovery, but rather a summary of the information that can be found in the whitepaper Scaling SharePoint 2007: Storage Architecture (R2) created by Russ Houberg and…

Tabbed Remote Desktop

infrastructure

I visit a lot of clients and work work with a lot of different admins and one the recurring themes for many of these admins is having multiple – three plus usually – RDP sessions open at one time. There’s nothing wrong with this in and of itself, the problem comes when trying to find…

Change Management Catalysts – How Hard is Too Hard…?

General

Vaughan Merlyn has a great post on his IT Organization Circa 2017 blog on how hard a consulting company should push its clients in adopting organizational change.  On the converse side, it also discusses what a client should expect from a consulting company that implements tools supporting organizational change.   http://vaughanmerlyn.com/2009/08/24/how-hard-should-management-consultants-push-clients/   Needless to say,…