We have seen couple of cases on this issue here in product support recently and since I didn’t see the information documented on our site anywhere I thought it would be worth a mention here. Issue: The SMS Site Component Manager fails to install the SMS_MP_CONTROL_MANAGER component on a Windows Server 2008 based computer. The…
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 uniquely enables customers to reduce the cost of data center management across server operating systems and hypervisors through a single, familiar and easy to use interface. Through numerous views that show state, health and performance information as well as alerts generated according to some availability, performance, configuration or…
Keith over at Xtreme Consulting has created a nice wizard driven tool for adding boot images to a USB flash drive. This is designed to work with MDT 2010. Read the full post and download the tool here. Excellent work Keith!
This article describes the reasons why you cannot use the ImageX.exe tool as a backup tool on a Windows Vista-based computer. The ImageX.exe tool ships as part of the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK). You can use the ImageX.exe tool to capture an operating system installation image on which you have run Sysprep (Sysprep.exe) from…
Welcome to the latest posting in my Resource Analysis Under the Hood series. My goal with these posts is to introduce the features of the Project Server Resource Analysis component of the Portfolio Analysis module with the help of an Excel mockup. Why Excel? Because this is the closest I could get to developing a…
Today the Microsoft UC team has announced that Lync 2010 has reached Release to Manufacturing (RTM). This means that all the features and code are final. The announcement from the UC team can be read HERE. The next major milestone is General Availability (GA). This is set for November 17th and will line up with…
I got hooked on Sun’s Virtual Box (now owned by Oracle) over a year ago. I was unimpressed by Windows 7 Virtualization when it failed to deliver on 64 bit virtualization and as great as Hyper-V is…it really isn’t a great laptop OS. I have run into two problems. One was whenever I got…
The wonderful thing about Lync is that you can initiate communication across all available modalities no matter what application you are currently working in. While this has been true since OCS, Lync has taken it a step further. Take the scenario of when you are digging through your emails and need to respond to one. …
When Silverlight databinding evaluates a binding expression, it does one of two things. If the object it is bound to inherits from DependencyObject and there is a DependencyProperty matching the binding expression, it uses FrameworkElement.GetValue to retrieve the value [simplified]. If not a DependencyObject and not a DependencyProperty, Silverlight falls back to using reflection to…
I believe the secret to success in business is just “one thing,” and that one thing is different for every business. Read my ABJ Entrepreneur Column to find out more.
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