I don’t normally blog about something not OSD related, but this was just way too cool! Read the original post here. Despite its accelerated demise on personal computers, Internet Explorer 6 remains a force to be reckoned with in the enterprise. There are simply too many mammoth companies running applications that depend upon the grizzled,…
I am working some PerformancePoint fun into a demo for a BI presentation for Dallas SharePoint Saturday on November 13. As usual, I was mildly surprised at how easy it was to develop – and how compelling it looks. Hence, below, you’ll find a discussion of how to create a new report in PerformancePoint, and…
Huge thanks to Keith Garner for answering my questions and showing me this function. Thanks Keith! I was recently working with a client that had some custom scripts they wanted to use to run some processes. What they wanted was to be able to update the Task Sequence progress bar with the progress of those…
MDT Documentation Example: It also is possible to run the custom code as a user exit script from CustomSettings.ini. This provides a mechanism for information to be passed into the CustomSettings.ini rule validation process and provides a dynamic update of MDT 2010 properties. A user exit script is effectively a function library that can be…
I just found out about this tool from a colleague this week. Very cool tool, definitely something to look at if you are creating a lot of BDP’s. ConfigMgr Brand DP Add BDPAdd is a tool that will bulk add protected branch distribution points to a ConfigMgr 2007 (SCCM) hierarchy. There is currently not a…
If you run a standard client task sequence template from within the OS, you will notice the Computer Backup wizard pane allows you to specify the location for the backup. If you have BackupDir and BackupShare values populated in the database or in customsettings.ini, then this path will be automatically filled out for you. If…
There is a bug in ztiuserstate.wsf that prevents a MDT integrated Task Sequence from connecting to the SMP (State Migration Point) to upload the .mig file. The chances of running into this are pretty slim since most newer hardware has fairly large hard drives. This is something I usually test for though, I like to…
Pesky Bugs Some bugs keep popping up in project after project. It’s important to catch these sneaky bugs before they get into a production system. In the last month, we’ve caught three separate bugs that occurred due to improper handling of special characters. This type of bug can be easily missed if the test team…
Now that Lync has RTM’d, it is time to start preparing for the introduction of Lync into your environment. Let’s discuss what is required in your environment before getting started with Lync. Active Directory Requirements Even though Lync uses the new Central Management Store (CMS) to store configuration data for servers and services (instead of…
The other day, a question was posted to the support forum about how to generate a drop down list within a project workspace that automatically referenced the list of resources within Project Server. As an example, when creating a Risk or Issue, I want to be able to map it only to those resources that…
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