Well, I was able to get the newest version of the AutoSPInstaller to build a farm. Overall it was an immense pleasure to use and configure and a big improvement from earlier versions. Some of the high points: Create a SQL Alias in the Script Automatically append a Farm level DB prefix to all…
Kent Agerlund posted a new blog post where Coretech developed a really nice shutdown utility for use with ConfigMgr. Read the full post and download the tool here. To suppress or not suppress a computer restart when deploying software and software updates that is the question. No matter what you do, you most likely will…
Within K2 there are two approaches to updating document metadata. While it is common to immediately jump into the K2 event wizard “SharePoint Documents”, I want to show you today a few tricks that you can only accomplish by updating this same information via a SmartObject event. My requirements Be able to update/change the content…
Pete Zerger (MVP, and SystemCenterCentral site), Cameron Fuller (yours truly) and Alec King (Director of Product management at Veeam) are provide a free webinar discussing best practice approaches to monitoring VMware with SCOM – today at 12:00 central (1:00 ET). Give-a-ways include 10 free books which you can choose from these different options: VMware…
I generally like to write my own blogs but in no way I could top this review. Add the fact that I don’t have Mango yet gives me more reason to do a repost. http://engt.co/osmbFh
Silverlight projects I’ve been a part of tend to develop a robust set of converters. Anything I can do to keep my view model in a relatively pure state (see Part 0 for more details) keeps me happy. However there are times when I also don’t want to write a converter for one simple “throw-away”…
Phil Schwan has a new post up talking about how to raise the ASP buffer limit to show “large” reports. As an FYI, another solution to this issue is to use SQL Reporting Services as the 10k row limit and the ASP buffer issue don’t apply when using SRS. Read the full post here. If…
Michael Petersen has a nice new post up on the CoreTech Blog that is something I talk repeatedly about with clients. Only injecting the drivers you NEED, instead of needlessly injecting drivers until you get a working boot image. Read the full post here. It seems to me, people tend to add way to many…
Johan Arwidmark has a new post up talking about integrating Dart 7 (beta) into your WinPE images to allow remote connectivity. Read the full post here. In the new Dart 7 (Beta) release, Microsoft added a remote connection application to WinPE, it allows you to connect to a WinPE system using the new Dart Remote…
Michael Murgolo has a new post over on The Deployment Guys Blog. Read the full post here. I recently had the need to pop up a message box duing an LTI task sequence. I was creating a stand-alone wizard to allow a manually-initiated launch of a task sequence that would install the Service Pack 1…
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