This is not a full "by example" type article but I’ve been spending some time with the V7 management pack and I have a few key points that I’ve seen so far that I thought would be worth sharing. This blog post will discuss a quick method to identify common alerts, discusses three alerts that…
On December 19th, Microsoft announced the removal of the public website feature from SharePoint Online. Of course, it’s not really a full removal, but the feature is transitioning over to unknown third-party offerings…unknown, that is, until today. Today, Microsoft announced that Wix.com and GoDaddy.com are two of the available third-party offerings and there are more…
To provide a single location to maintain this evolving blog content I have posted a single copy of this blog post which is available at: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/the-history-of-system-center-universe/
I work on a variety of computers at home and at work and it’s a pain to have to reconfigure the same applications over and over and over again. In this example, I’d like to show you how you can store your dictionary used by Microsoft Office in SkyDrive to create one universal dictionary for all…
It’s a good day to not be assigned to a customer… Microsoft released Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9926! I took a moment to download all 4 ISO files (Professional and Enterprise, 32 and 64 bit), inventoried the ISOs to help keep track of them, and deployed one in my ConfigMgr 2012 R2 CU3 Hyper-V…
Technorati Tags: Configuration Manager,SCCM,Office ProPlus,Application,Office365,O365 I was recently tasked by a client with creating an Application for Office365 ProPlus. This is a local installation of Office 2013. But, it’s the “Click to Run” version. It updates automatically and the licensing is based on users in your Office365 subscription. Office is typically one of the easiest…
I finally got some quality time to hang out with Carl in Austin this year. In 2011, if someone told me that I would end up in a film sitting next to a robot I would have bet against it. However, in retrospect that was a whole lot of fun so I should probably hang…
You do not want to miss the opportunity to be at System Center Universe (SCU) this February 4th. You want to know why? Here’s the top 5 reasons why you do not want to miss SCU2015! 1) Speaker and session lineup: I can’t even imagine a more jam packed day of sessions or a better…
If you’ve worked in an IT department for a mid-to-large company you may have run across Microsoft Volume Licensing. I think a tome could be written on the intricacies of the subject, but here I’m only going to touch on one. How to determine your Windows distribution channel Since PowerShell is king, we’ll start there:…
A few years ago my employer, Catapult Systems, had a policy in place for submitting receipts when doing expense reports. At the time whoever put the policy together really didn’t consider all the challenges a consultant will actually face at the client’s site. Basically there were only three options. Us consultants had to fax in…
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