July 2016 may go down in history as the month that Augmented Reality went mainstream. Augmented Reality’s embrace into the mainstream came from an unlikely source – a game called Pokémon Go. This game has been a huge boon to Nintendo who has seen its stock double since the release of the game. In this…
Today I will share the neatest thing I experienced on my iPhone. I do a lot of meetings and most of them are on conference bridges where I have to type an 800# and then a 7-15 digit passcode to get in. On my Windows Phone I used to have an app that did this,…
I’ve been an avid Windows Phone junkie from back in the Windows CE 6.0 days. I’ll admit to a year long sojourn to iOS prior to Windows Phone 7.5 releasing an wooing me back, but I think I’ve cut the last cord and now am back on iOS for good. What was the final straw?…
We need to set a random string in the password field of an ADX Studio implementation. The password will never be used, but it needs to be there to configure single-sign-on. To do so, I added a script component to the data flow migrating contacts from the old system to the new system. I set…
You are facing a technical problem but there doesn’t seem to be an answer. You need to reach out for help, but you don’t know where to start. There are a myriad of different approaches available to try to get help, which should you choose and why? (Forums, Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, books/articles, contacts such…
Recently Microsoft announced the release of their automation tool called Flow to assist with the constant of “Do More with Less”. For an introduction into Flow check this out. To get started with Flow check it out at: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/. Automation is an area of interest for me so I decided to spend some time kicking…
Microsoft OMS provides an excellent best practices analyzer (SQL Assessment) for SQL server which is easy to install and quickly gain insights from for your SQL servers. The top level tile is shown below. This expands into a series of views which show the underlying recommendations based upon various top level areas (Security and Compliance,…
[Update 11/29/2017: The View Designer is now part of the full product and does not need to be enabled with a preview feature. To open the view designer use the Plus symbol on the top left part of the OMS workspace. The remainder of this blog post has been left in place for to show…
I was helping out a fellow consultant with some less-than-obvious T-SQL for some custom reporting recently. One of the needs was to get the Last Logon time for an Active Directory user. ConfigMgr Active Directory User Discovery was pulling in the correct attributes, but we hit a snag in getting a good report of the…
Awhile back I had an issue distributing a new Package in ConfigMgr (SCCM). There didn’t seem to be anything unique about the package, it just didn’t want to process. Digging into the SMS Distribution Manager log (distmgr.log), I noticed a number of errors about the file not being found, couldn’t be added, can’t create a…
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