Rob Marshall - MVP's Blog Posts

I was at a customer site recently and they were simulating a data centre failure as part of their Disaster Recovery plan. They replicate the Site server as a VM across to another data centre in real-time and fail over to it when the main Site server is...

I’m running a session on Software Updates Management on the 23rd of May between 19:30 to 20:30 using LiveMeeting. This is an online event that does not require an invitation, just turn up on the scheduled date and time. Here’s the link the Events page...

I wrote a little article for TechNet UK as a guest post where I go over the new Email Notifications mechanism in ConfigMgr 2012 SP1. Check it out here

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...

Our very own WMUG representative is at this years most awesome MMS 2013, Simon Skinner, CDM MVP, who will be tweeting and such like across the week, letting us know all the exciting stuff taking place. Check out the WMUG MMS 2013 dedicated page . We link...

Another WMUG webcast, this time from Satisnet and Secunia, click through to get more information on the event and how to register. Overview: Secunia CSI provides highly detailed software inventory including both programs and plug-ins. This inventory...

UPDATED: Script modified to log results Spam. Spam. Spam. Here at WMUG we see a lot of Bots trying to register an account with us so they can get in and spam the site silly. For most website administrators it is an on-going chore separating out the...

Cumulative Update 1 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 has been released. This release is heaving with updates covering the Administrator Console, Site Systems, Device Management, Software Updates, Client and PowerShell. As usual...

This project is as old as I am LOL, every now and then get reminded to go visit for a revised HOSTS file. So today I updated to catch up with the latest IP’s for those dodgy Trojan sites and Ad spammers. Go check this stuff out, it’ll block a lot in your...

This week we had a virtual event with Netwrix, where Aidan Simister and Danny Murphy demonstrated a selection of core modules from their Change Reporter Suite. A pretty good overview all-round, with Aidan introducing the company and the products, while...

While I was out in Seattle enjoying a fantastic MVP 2013 summit, I came across my buddy Niall Brady who was getting all excited about his new CM12 BitLocker front-end HTA (new, I think he’s reached Iteration 3 so not so new …), and we agreed to meet up...

WMUG has a last minute event up, this one is for NetWrix, see the dedicated Event Page for more information. Overview: This session will offer an overview of a selection of core modules from their Change Reporter Suite. It will provide a brief...

Best to download the docs and review offline now, TechNet (not the ConfigMgr team) have ripped out Classic view which helped us fully expand all the collapsible nodes to enable CTRL-F for searching, now you’ll have to expand the appropriate node out and...

Just come back from a beer with fellow MVP Niall Brady during which he demonstrated his ultra-cool CM12 BitLocker HTA front-end. It’s midnight and I’ve got day 3 of the MVP summit to deal with so I’m going to cut this short so I can hit the sack, but...

Knocked this up today, just install the extension to your Console and when you have a problem click on PayPal and I'll magically appear to fix up your issues!

While the other MVP's head out for Sushi and liquid refreshments I thought I'd retreat to my hotel room, and tinker with my lab back home in the UK. Just not in the mood to socialise with the geeks all getting sloshed at the Opening party either...

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...

Got this email today, putting me amongst the top 5% most viewed profiles on LinkedIn I doubt this means I’m a super-star or anything, like come on, but, it sure is super-cool to get viewed so many times!

I don’t think a kids game – MineCraft – running on a Raspberry Pi is all that newsworthy to the audience that reads my ramblings, however this is a bit special as the Pi is cheap-as-chips personal computer that runs on an ARM processor, it’s getting some...

We had to reschedule our event for SolarWinds due to technical reasons but it is now back on! Still a virtual meeting, but now set for the 13th of Feb 2013 at 7PM UK time, check out the Event page for more information. Looks to be a very interesting presentation...

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...

Kenny put together a nice method for fixing apps that won’t deploy via OSD post-RTM to SP1 upgrade. The script pokes the comment field which induces a ContentID which then causes the apps to redistribute to the DP’s and cleans up the issue. Nice work...

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...

The first day of the year at roughly the same time of the day I get a very exciting email. It’s not guaranteed, this is an invite-only renewed award so when it does arrive it makes my day: 2012 was a notable year indeed, so much happened, System Centre...

WMUG is holding another virtual event, on the 21st of November at 7PM GMT, this time a presentation from Simon Skinner ( nubigenus ) showing us Silect Software’s ConfigWise and how to get far more from your reporting on the Configuration Manager...