Automated Cross Platform Agent install and Discovery (#SCOM)
A colleague of mine (Terry Taylor) just launched into blogging with a really solid posting on how to automate the…
Automated Cross Platform Agent install and Discovery
The purpose of this post is document a step by step method for automated Cross Platform System Center Operations Manager…
Effective Global Teams – Recognizing the Individual
In my last post, I discussed some techniques for making global Agile teams more effective. I also used that post…
Automating the restart of a service in OpsMgr (#SCOM)
A little while back I was working with an organization where we put in a batch script which would be…
Provision a Virtual Machine Workflow using Opalis and System Center Virtual Machine Manager
This post explains a simple way to use Opalis to automate provisioning a virtual machine from System Center Virtual…
The 7 Deadly Sins of Backlog (Mis) Management
When a team or organization decides to go agile, one of the key practices to follow is letting a backlog…
Why feature branching is a bad idea
I saw Martin Fowler speak in Austin a couple years ago and one part of his talk was on continuous…
Deployment Blogs and Twitter
Ben Hunter over on The Deployment Guys has put together a nice blog post with a list of various community…
Offshore Agile Testing…a Request from Management
Last night, a friend of mine asked me for some advice about how to run an Agile software development team…
Custom Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (FEP) policy for a custom Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr) install with SQL 2008 on a single server
I’m currently working on deploying ConfigMgr for a client. They’re using FEP with the default settings and it’s unmanaged. Of…