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The Best of MMS UK registration is closed now and there will be an epic amount of folk there as well as partners. I’ll be attending so if you see me and want to say hi just pull me up, always happy to chat and meet. http://blogs.technet.com/b/uktechnet/archive/2013/05/10/reminder-the-best-of-mms-uk-2013...

Lots of chatter out there on the web on this, Microsoft has pulled a patch, KB2823324, that is reportedly causing Windows OS’s not to boot properly or for application to not function correctly. If you haven’t got this out into production yet, think it’d be a sensible precaution to remove it from any...

I’m about to head off to London Heathrow Airport for todays10 hour flight out to Seattle, visiting the MVP 2013 Global Summit on the Microsoft Redmond Campus. It’s become a holiday-conference combo, it is supposed to be a conference but myself and other ConfigMgr MVP’s have kind of gone overboard and...

Over on the ConfigMgr team blog they made an announcement that ConfigMgr 2007 and ConfigMgr 2012 now support SQL SP1 support . There Is another reference in the announcement that the Endpoint Protection client will also support SQL 2012 SP1 and Operations Manager 2012 SP1. You’ll see the documentation...

Our first service pack for ConfigMgr is now fully available! Check out these MS announcement links Delivering Unified Device Management with Windows Intune and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Microsoft Advances the Cloud OS With New Management Solutions Download Microsoft System Center Private...

Welcome to my guide for installing the ConfigMgr 2012 Client onto RedHat 6 Enterprise Linux ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 Beta brings cross-platform support, and here I'll show you how to setup RedHat and then install the ConfigMgr Client There have been third-party extensions to achieve this before...

I wrote here about installing the first update bundle for ConfigMgr called System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Cumulative Update 1 , and skipped over deploying using Software Updates, well here’s how to get the CAB file the cumulative update 1 creates when you install it, and deploy to your Clients...

Literally two days ago I wrote a quick blog post about the ConfigMgr 2012 cumulative update servicing model , but didn’t have an update\cumulative bundle to install so pretty much just blogged what I took from the documentation, well what do you know, a day later the first cumulative update bundle...

Must be the summer of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, few days ago the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Configuration Pack was released. The pack checks the Software Update Point and Management Point roles, Site Servers and WSUS Configuration settings. The Pack will only return compliance...

Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 has been released. You can fetch the downloads from here ( KB2706783 ) A stack of fixes, best to visit the link the full descriptions. Also check out Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft System Center 2012 here ( 2686249 ) There is also a preview SP1 for System Center...

If you’re studying up on ConfigMgr 2012 at the moment, make this your homepage! System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Survival Guide Lots of people are contributing links and content so you’ll see this grow rapidly … there's a stack of awesome videos on there already, check ‘em out!

Check out the Microsoft System Center keynote (Brad Anderson and Satya Nadella), big reveals in there! Universal installer ... Watch the video ... Still trying to work out what the 'vision' is? Read on ... http://www.informationweek.com/news/cloud-computing/infrastructure/232400396 http...

Makes for interesting reading, http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20128013-75/the-inside-story-of-how-microsoft-killed-its-courier-tablet/ Sourced from CNET

Looks like Microsoft and Nokia have formed an alliance with Nokia using Windows Phone OS for its devices ... Tons of info over the web about this development, my jumping off point this morning was: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12427680

Caught this announcement on Engadget today that Windows 7 phones will be sold through all five mobile operators in the UK. Instead of just o2 , who got exclusivity on the iPhone in the UK. This is real good news for competitive data plans, and a better handset price. Competition has a habit of...

Just installed it at home, am liking it, some of the new stuff is very subtle. Check it out while it is still in Beta here

I've fallen out of the routine of announcing the patches each month, I felt that if it wasn't a notable release, well, then there is no reason to duplicate what a zillion other folk are happily duplicating, instead I assume you've signed up to the bulletin announcement mailing list and are...

Looks like Microsoft are really putting time in to Fixit as it is appearing all over the place :-) See Fixit in action: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2286198/en-us LNK and PIF file exploit being closed by Mr Fixit: http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2010/07/20/security-advisory.aspx

Someone linked me to this earlier, if you've not seen it, stick with the slow start, quality ending :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8vqSJAOC7I

Time to get some feedback to MS on the WSUS and Configmgr integration. Check out the survey here, takes literally one minute, no login required and the feedback is seen by the product group, who, as you know, roll the dice on the features and any updates they get. Survey: What are your top pain...

Microsoft Acquires Opalis Software Hi, Everyone, Great news for enterprise, government and service provider customers who use System Center. I’m excited to announce that Microsoft has acquired Opalis Software , a Toronto-based private company that is a leader in IT process automation software...

Check out Bing , a new search engine from Microsoft. Time of this posting it's not ready for public consumption, I believe it'll be ready for us on the 1st of June 2009. They do have a video posted, click here to view A few words on the subject over on CNET . They say it'll take...

Microsoft DreamSpark now provides professional-level Microsoft developer tools, at no charge, to High School students. Previously, these tools were only available to College and University students. Back when I was programming, using IDE's, I had built in BASIC , DevPac for the Amiga and Turbo...

Bit of news on the Microsoft Retail Stores that will start springing up on the high street. And, a bit of tongue in cheek humour at how it will all work

Interesting tool from Microsoft: Common Windows problems could soon be solved by clicking a "Fix It" button. Microsoft has started putting the button on its web-based support pages that detail the most common problems hitting PC and Windows users. Clicking the button kicks off a download...