I recently helped a friend on an issue with Windows Server Backup and want to share an interesting experience. Many of you may know that the Windows Server Backup feature stores the backup file in VHD format. Microsoft touts the recoverability of these files to be used for bare-metal recovery, which means you are…
If you have ever sequenced an application using Microsoft App-V, then you should be aware that there are a few tasks that must be performed to the machine prior to sequencing. These include: creating a dummy printer, creating dummy ODBC’s, and stopping all unnecessary services. In an effort to automate these tasks, I have written…
I was recently working in a SCCM environment that has over 2,000 collections. Of these 2,000 collections only 97 of them were at the top level. The rest were all sub collections. As you can image it could be quite an adventure trying to find a particular collection. To solve this problem I have created…
I just saw this today while I was on Amazon. For anyone wants to know – this is where my spare time is currently being spent (other than when I’m playing Skyrim of course). http://www.amazon.com/System-Center-Operations-Manager-Unleashed/dp/0672335913/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330013707&sr=1-1
I’ve written a few blogs in the past on using a little known feature in MDT where you can deploy applications based on the previous inventory. This a fairly unknown feature that’s been around in BDD/MDT for quite some time. Here is a previous post on the subject. Brad Tucker over on The Deployment Guys…
Mikael Nystrom created a nice post on what permissions are needed in Active Directory for OSD. Read his post here.
The Deployment Guys have a nice new post on using the Microsoft Bitlocker Administration and Monitoring tool. Read the full post here. Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) provides features to manage BitLocker encryption of computers in an enterprise. More information on MBAM can be found here. BitLocker creates recovery information at the time of…
Not much, unless you consider the below items important: Enterprise Readiness – support for up to 500,000 Active Directory User Objects (up from 20,000) Recycle Bin Enhancements – Now the Recycle Bin and management of it will be available in the SharePoint Administration Center PDFs – PDF documents will open directly without requiring a download…
Here’s an interesting one – At my current client, if I go through a favorite to the URL for Central Admin and try to delete a service app, I am presented with a grayed out delete icon in the ribbon. Huh…even with the farm ID, nada. Turns out that this client has a Windows 2008…
I am working on my presentation and lab environment in preparation for the Inaugural Office 365 Saturday Event this Saturday, February 25th, in Redmond, WA. I was very honored to be selected as a session presenter for this event! My session is dealing with an Office 365 Hybrid Deployment using the new Hybrid Wizard with…
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