Finding All References to MDT Variables in a Deployment Share: VariableDocumentor v1.0 Aly Shivji MDT is very flexible in the ability to define and use variables inline and in different locations. However, this also means that if you forget to assign a variable a value it may lead to unintended consequences that you might…
Johan Arwidmark has uploaded some great videos to his blog. Summaries are below, go to the following link to view the videos! 5 Deployment and Systems Management sessions from NIC 2012 in Oslo Creating Custom WinPE 4.0 boot images (54:59) This session gives an in-depth view of all the new features in WinPE 4.0 (Windows…
Hydration means a fully automated build of a complete Lab environment for Hyper-V or VMware. Here is a download for deploying a complete ConfigMgr 2012 RC2 infrastructure: One Domain Controller and one ConfigMgr 2012 RC2 member server – Including pre-requisites like .Net Framework, SQL 2008 R2 SP1 CU4 and IIS – All fully automated.…
The Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Capacity Planning Tool helps customers understand what hardware they need in order to support the number of users, wide area network bandwidth, features and protections enabled in their Forefront TMG 2010 deployment. Just download and open the Excel Spreadsheet to help figure out if what you have will…
Microsoft has a TechNet article that talks about TMG hardware recommendations. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff382651.aspx
Hybrid Deployment So part 3 of this blog series is all about the benefits of Exchange 2010 SP2 Hybrid wizard. To recap in Part 1 I setup my lap environment, in Part 2 (let’s just forget about Part 1.5) I documents my setting up Single Sign-On (SSO). As I mentioned in one of the previous…
For some reason I have a lot of people use non-valid certificates on backend servers they’re connecting to through UAG. This is because they don’t want to spend the money and/or time on a cert, it’s used for testing, work needs to continue with UAG while waiting for a valid cert, or whatever reason. It’s…
Office 365 Hybrid Deployment Continuing my blog series on setting up a Hybrid Office 365 deployment with Exchange 2010 SP2. This part will detail the ADFS and SSO setup. UAG Setup So I went with the recommended, actually required, two NIC configuration for UAG, one NIC dedicated to External and one to Internal communications. To…
Sorry to my loyal and dedicated readers, you both know who you are, but I did not get much done tonight! I finalized the exchange 2010 SP2 install and got my certificate from GoDaddy.com requested and completed. But ran into some FUN (please notice the caps in fun, as in NOT FUN) with Forefront UAG…
I am prepping my newly acquired lab servers, Thanks Catapult IT!, to set up an Office 365 Hybrid Deployment. I am doing this for several reasons: 1. Want to fully understand the new Hybrid Deployment Wizard and setup with Exchange 2010 SP2 2. Use Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) for ADFS and Exchange proxy…
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