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May Central Texas SharePoint User Group

GeneralBy Catapult Systems April 28, 2010

Join us for the May 12th Meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group! "PlanviewPRISMS.com – Adding Value through Customizing SharePoint 2007" May 12th Meeting Description: Planview, Inc. has just recently deployed a new interactive website called PlanviewPRISMS.com, which is based on the MOSS 2007 platform. In this session, Michael Donahoo, Planview SharePoint Administrator will…

Operations Console will not open – SDK service has not yet initialized

InfrastructureBy Cameron Fuller April 27, 2010

We ran into a situation where when we tried to open the Operations Manager 2007 R2 console. The console would not open and failed with a message saying that the “SDK service has not yet initialized. Please retry…” To diagnose this we tried to restart services on the RMS and debug from the Operations Manager…

QuickTricks – The Default Management Pack in OpsMgr

InfrastructureBy Cameron Fuller April 26, 2010

You most likely have already heard multiple times – “Don’t use the Default Management Pack in Operations Manager!”. If not see this article for an example of some fun with cleanup (thank you Mr. Holman!). At MMS last week I was in Rory McCaw’s session entitled “The Top 20 Must Have Customizations”. Rory went through…

5 Ways To Make Better Business Decisions

GeneralBy Catapult Systems April 26, 2010

Find out how to demystify “business intelligence” for small businesses by reading my column for the ABJ Entrepreneur entitled: “5 ways to make better business decisions.”

Organizational health for Agile Adoption: Key traits of QA leads

ApplicationsBy Catapult Systems April 26, 2010

This post is a continuation of my series on adopting healthy practices that enable an organization to make the agile transformation. You can read the first eight parts of this series here: Part I: Introduction Part II: Vision and Risk Part III: Backlog Management Part IV: Key Players Part V: Sprint Execution Part VI: Key…

Search Engine Optimization | SEO Primer Part 2 of 2

Web Solutions, Web Solutions/IntranetsBy Catapult Systems April 26, 2010

This is the second post in a 2-part series to act as a Search Engine Optimization Primer. In my previous post, we provided the foundation for learning about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). We talked about the history and evolution of search engines and how we have come to rely on this magical number called PageRank.…

MVP Chats: Take 2

GeneralBy Catapult Systems April 24, 2010

Microsoft is hosting another round of MVP Chat Sessions where you can ask deep technical (or ridiculously frivolous) questions of SharePoint MVPs like me, Bill English, Sahil Malik, Shane Young, Clayton Cobb, Asif Rehmani, Agnes Molnar, Darrin Bishop, Rob Bogue, Saifullah Shafiq, and Serge Tremblay. You can use the link in the Chat Center on…

Two Follow ups

InfrastructureBy Catapult Systems April 22, 2010

From my presentation this morning at MMS I had two follow up questions that I promised to post links for. Well, here they are. The first link is for a failure in USMT after the installation of the hotfix described in KB article 974571: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=977203. The second link is to a post by Roger Zander…

I Want to Advertise OSD Task Sequences to “All Systems” Collection!

InfrastructureBy Catapult Systems April 21, 2010

Something I have learned here at MMS 2010 is something I thought couldn’t work no matter what. I know I’ve posted this on several forums and never received any feedback. But guess what everyone, I found the solution! Question: I want to publish my OSD task Sequences to Collections with existing function workstations. Prerequisites:…

MMS 2010 Keynote 4/20: Summary for Geeks

InfrastructureBy Cameron Fuller April 20, 2010

We just wrapped up attending the MMS 2010 Keynote by Bob Muglia this morning which was a really good session. There was too much good stuff to go through in details, so what we’re going to do is hit the highlights that we saw during the session: 1) Official releases of both System Center…