The WUA Dilemma in ConfigMgr
I’ve blogged about the *unfun* of the Windows Update Agent (WUA) before, answered many forums posts on the subject, and…
SQL SERVER: Cannot resolve the collation conflict between “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS” and “Latin1_General_CI_AS” in the equal to operation
Issue: Cannot resolve the collation conflict between “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS” and “Latin1_General_CI_AS” I received the following error when I was attempting…
Removing Line Breaks or New Line Characters in a SQL Query
On many occasions, I am asked to run a quick ad-hoc query and dump the results into an Excel spreadsheet.…
Disabling/Enabling IPv6 with an Application in Configuration Manager 2012
The idea behind OSD in Configuration Manager is automation. Right? We want to create a process to eliminate as many…
An American Redneck in Europe (#SCU_DACH)
Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at SCU DACH in Bern, Switzerland. This was extremely interesting for…
DirSync Error Resolution Part 3 – Invalid User Principal Name
The next type of DirSync errors generated by the organization in Part 1 were objects with invalid User Principal…
Optimizing your Hyper-V environments with the OpsLogix Capacity MP
A little while back I did a blog post discussing how impressed I was with some reports which were available…
Azure Virtual Machines Dev/Test Billing
Overview As of June 2013 Microsoft made a competitive and attractive move by not charging owners of a subscription for…
Upgrading from Microsoft Windows Server 2012 to Microsoft Server 2012 R2
In my home lab I have three servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter. Each server has the Hyper-V…
AT&T MPLS will connect to Azure in 2014
This MPLS integration option eliminates the single point of failure that exists with Azure’s site-to-site VPN (aka Azure Virtual Network).…