Scambler

New Whitepaper – How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010

scambler — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:03:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Certification

scambler — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:34:00 GMT

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...(read more)

How do I prevent the System Center Configuration Manager console from downloading the TechCenter home page

scambler — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:06:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Elevation PowerToys for Windows

scambler — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:09:09 GMT

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)

Capture CD and SCCM 2007

scambler — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:19:31 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows 7 N, What is the N?

scambler — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:27:00 GMT

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...(read more)

PXE Boot fails with SMSPXE.LOG error No Boot Action for Device (.........) found"

scambler — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:37:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Failed to resolve selected task sequence dependencies. Code(0x80040102)

scambler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:42:00 GMT

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...(read more)

More on Window 7 and Server 2008 R2 RTM

scambler — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:22:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows 7 Has Been Released to Manufacturing - woohoo

scambler — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:22:20 GMT

Read the article from the Windows Team Blog...(read more)

Global Support On Click and a worried sister

scambler — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:44:40 GMT

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...(read more)

Windows Azure Platform

scambler — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:15:24 GMT

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...(read more)

Hyper-V How To: Monitor Hyper-V R2 VMs in a Sidebar Gadget

scambler — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:52:01 GMT

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)

ConfigMgr 2007 Distribution Points Load Testing

scambler — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:40:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Upgrade to SCCM fails to remove SMS_SQL_MONITOR service

scambler — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:17:00 GMT

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...(read more)