System Center Orchestrator Server Installation
I did my first installation of System Center Orchestrator 2012 in my home lab this evening. As a good practice…
Installing Fonts During OSD
Here’s a simple little script to install fonts during OSD. Note that this is an example of not doing any…
System Center Updates Publisher 2011 Screencasts
Jason Lewis has put up a series of screencasts covering the new System Center Updates Publisher 2011 product. Intro to…
Fixing ComboBox.SelectedValue Bug with Expression Behaviors
Happened upon a Silverlight bug today. In essence, if you have a ComboBox with its SelectedValue bound to a property…
The Compound Effect for Business
Most of us understand the principle of compounding money over time. I believe the same compound effect applies to running…
Additional OpsMgr SQL Queries for Dashboards (#SCOM, #sqlserver)
Added two new SQL queries for the OpsMgr Dashboards and Gadgets and uploaded them today to: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/Downloads/DownloadsDetails/tabid/144/view/showmsg/indexid/86822/Default.aspx Processor Utilization History…
Failure importing a management pack into Operations Manager (#SCOM)
During a recent deployment we received a cryptic message when attempting to add the Exchange 2003 management pack. Details are…
Advanced Format Hard Drives–Automatically Patching WinPE 3.0 With The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (MDT)
In order to support the new 4k advanced format drives, we need to apply a hotfix to WinPE 3.0. First,…
Converters–Part 0–My View on MVVM and Converters
Converters are a bit of a touchy subject in MVVM. Some would argue that the ViewModel is itself a “converter…
Advanced Format Hard Drives – Information about Microsoft support policy for large sector drives in Windows
Read the original post here. … Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Any large sector disks, such as Advanced Format…