When the Sandbox isn’t enough & a Farm solution is too much
It’s really easy to just select farm solution for your Visual Studio project: That’s your choice provided that your IT…
Does your assembly actually belong in the GAC?
In many cases, NO. Many developers believe that "GACing" their assemblies is always the proper way to deploy them. In…
Configuration Manager 2012–Offline Servicing for OSD
Configuration Manager 2012 has a new feature for updating your images. This process uses Component Based Servicing (CBS) updates. By…
SharePoint 2007 Config Wizard Access Denied – Does your database server have an alias?
This post is a follow-up to my post from February 12th of this year – https://www.catapultsystems.com/mpoole/archive/2011/02/12/sharepoint-2007-config-wizard-access-denied.aspx. Well, not really a…
Generate Computernames in MDT 2010 based on prefix and a sequencenumber
Johan has put up a new post over on his blog. Be sure to read his original post here. This…
LTIPause.vbs – Take a break in deployment
The Deployment Bunny is at it again. This time he’s got a nice post on pausing the Task Sequence. Read…
QuickTricks: How can I tell how frequently a rule recurs in OpsMgr? (#SCOM)
One of the common approaches that I use when tuning OpsMgr is to see what are the alerts which occur…
MDT Debugger 2.1
Read the original post here. This post was contributed by Daniel Oxley, a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Services UK As…
Most Valued Community Contributor Award
I was humbled this week to receive the MVCC recognition this week. I’m just happy to be able to give…
Sharing OpsMgr SQL Scripts for Dashboards & Gadgets (#SCOM, #sqlserver)
In some recent posts I have provided some SQL scripts which I have been using to display Operations Manager data…