October 2008 - Posts

10 October 2008
Important changes to Microsoft Action Pack subscription
This is new.... For those partners who are not aware, there have been some important changes made to Microsoft Action Pack subscription . All first time subscribers and renewing partners must now study a course and pass a qualifying assessment with a score of 70 per cent or higher in order to subscribe... Read More...
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07 October 2008
Scripting and scheduled tasks.....
Scripting and scheduled task... I wanted to find a an easy way to create and check scheduled tasks via a script, not as easy as I first thought - all will be revealed why, read on. so I create a scheduled task via the scheduled task control panel applet, no problem there. I then try and query it via... Read More...
03 October 2008
Free version of Hyper-V released
No surprise here, after VMWare release ESXi for free download, you can now get a free version of Hyper-V - which one to use - decisions, decisions, decisions http://www.microsoft.com/servers/hyper-v-server/default.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/servers/hyper-v-server/how-to-get.mspx Microsoft® Hyper... Read More...
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02 October 2008
Extending Schema for ConfigMgr and 'A Referral was returned from the server'
I know this has been covered on a number of sites, but I had not seen this error before. I have always said that the best way to extend the schema was to use an LDIF file (LDAP Data Interchange Format) I prefer it as 'you are in more control' of the schema extension, and can see what changes... Read More...