Embedded Quality – Development Team
When I’ve introduced Embedded Quality to the developers on a project, a common reaction is fear and loathing. They often…
Silverlight 4 – implicit styles don’t propagate consistently into templates
Prior to Silverlight 4 implicit styles (styles that weren’t given a key) didn’t exist and all styles had to be…
Active Directory System Discovery Method with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Hotfix
Read the full post and request the hotfix here. Consider the following scenario: You enable Active Directory System Discovery or…
ConfigMgr Client IP Check Script
Nice by Jason Sandys for identifying stale systems in AD, read the full post and download the script here. Troubleshooting…
Microsoft Management Summit 2011–MDT Integration with ConfigMgr Session
My session for MMS has been accepted. I’ve always been very passionate about the BDD/MDT solutions and am very happy…
Build and Capture and Software Updates (revisited)
Recently at a client in production and in my home lab, I ran into the an issue where the…
Microsoft Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM) Daily, Weekly & Periodic Maintenance Tasks
Configuration Manager 2007 Maintenance Tasks Daily Maintenance Tasks Performing daily maintenance is important to ensure proper site operations. A daily…
Strange Things are Afoot … (RegTask: Failed to get certificate. Error: 0x80004005)
Working at a client troubleshooting some weird ConfigMgr (not SCCM) client agent issues. Basically, there are a handful of systems,…
A new year, a new guy in the driver’s seat
Welcome to 2011! With the new year comes some changes here at the Catapult Systems EPM Team blog. As you…
Exchange Active Directory Topology Service and Event 2080
I think that it is pretty apparent that Exchange server relies heavily on Active Directory (AD). In fact, you…