17 February 2010
New Whitepaper – How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010
There is a new white paper on how to protect Hyper-V using DPM 2010 Extract from the DPM blog on TechNet 'Over the next several weeks, we are pre-releasing several whitepapers around DPM 2010’s Release Candidate. The first WP to be released is about how to protect Microsoft Virtualization environments... Read More...
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21 January 2010
Certification
For a while now I have been thinking about updating my Microsoft certification and have finally got round to starting. After a bit of research I have found that there have been some changes in the different levels of certification that are offered by Microsoft, the main one is that the MCSE certification... Read More...
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29 December 2009
How do I prevent the System Center Configuration Manager console from downloading the TechCenter home page
When the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 console is running on a server with a connection to the Internet, the top node in the console automatically connects to the Microsoft TechNet site to display the System Center Configuration Manager TechCenter. In Configuration Manager 2007 SP1... Read More...
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23 December 2009
Elevation PowerToys for Windows
I was looking for an easier way to elevate the execution of programs, when I came across this blog post…. Elevation Gadget 2.0 Read More...
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18 December 2009
Capture CD and SCCM 2007
I have been asked this question a few times now, so thought I would blog the answer. How do I create a capture CD (Capture Media) in Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007 Under Operating System Deployment. Right click on Task Sequence and choose "Create Task Sequence Media". In the wizard... Read More...
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18 December 2009
Windows 7 N, What is the N?
I am working on a Windows 7 build at the moment, and noticed that it is possible to get Windows 7 N, this obviously leads to the question, what does the 'N' stand for? I have found out that European law demands Microsoft offer these confusing 'N' editions if Windows 7 and here is the... Read More...
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04 December 2009
PXE Boot fails with SMSPXE.LOG error No Boot Action for Device (.........) found"
This issue is normally caused because the advertised task sequence to the client has no Boot Image associated with it. To fix the problem you need to associate a boot image with the task sequence by following the steps below. · Right click on the affected Task Sequence and choose Properties. ·... Read More...
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06 November 2009
Failed to resolve selected task sequence dependencies. Code(0x80040102)
If you are trying to capture an image, you might see the following The client boots into the initial boot environment with the SCCM splash screen, then preparing network connections appears briefly - this all disappears, then the client reboots - first step is to re-run the advertisement and press F8... Read More...
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27 July 2009
More on Window 7 and Server 2008 R2 RTM
Windows 7 Release Dates August 6th Independent Software and Hardware Vendors TechNet Subscribers Developers with MSDN Subscription August 7th Volume License Customers with Software Assurance August 16th Microsoft Partner Program Gold/Certified Members August 23rd Microsoft Action Pack Subscribers September... Read More...
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22 July 2009
Windows 7 Has Been Released to Manufacturing - woohoo
Read the article from the Windows Team Blog Read More...
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13 July 2009
Global Support On Click and a worried sister
I just received a phone call from a very worried sister. She had just received a phone call from a company called Global Support On Click. They explained to her that there was a problem with her computer, which of course they could fix, all she had to do was turn her computer on and let them connect... Read More...
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23 June 2009
Windows Azure Platform
Windows® Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. Useful Links ·         What is the Azure Services Platform? ·        ... Read More...
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22 June 2009
Hyper-V How To: Monitor Hyper-V R2 VMs in a Sidebar Gadget
I have been rebuilding my SCCM test environment recently, it all runs on Hyper-V and have been looking for an easy way to monitor the Hyper-V boxes, have a look at this Sidebar Gadget , this fits the bill nicely. I am going to install this later today. Read More...
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15 May 2009
ConfigMgr 2007 Distribution Points Load Testing
Recently I have been looking in to DP load testing, I found this excellent article on a technet blog At Microsoft, we have 280,000+ client machines that are managed worldwide and in our past life we were planning to scale our service to other companies client machines as well. As part of the platform... Read More...
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17 April 2009
Upgrade to SCCM fails to remove SMS_SQL_MONITOR service
I was upgrading a SMS 2003 SP3 site server to SCCM SP1 earlier and notice that the SMS_SQL_Monitor service was not removed. This is a know issue when upgrading from SMS 2003 SP2/SP3 to SCCM SP1 (I believe it only occurs in this one instance) The fix is to manually remove the SMS_SQL_Monitor component... Read More...
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