I'm Rob Marshall, a consultant who specialises in the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager product. I like to share, i do so by blogging and helping out when I can in the MS SMS newsgroups and participating in the ConfigMgr MVP program.
I was awarded and joined the program in 2009. It'd be an understatement to say it has to be one of the best experiences an IT engineer can have, if they really enjoy specialising in a product.
My biggest weapon for troubleshooting is, my formidable knowledge, no, only joking, you, the community. I find if I cannot answer a question, then I can usually find the answer from using Bing\Google, pouring over the documentation, and if that doesn't work, tinkering in mine or someone elses virtual lab.
The blogs pretty much about ConfigMgr, but it is also a platform for me to express my random urges to display something I've stumbled across, and that I imagine would entertain you or what not as equally as it did me.
Interesting write up over on the ConfigMgr Team Blog
Up until now we have released support announcements on the ConfigMgr Support Team blog from our very own Customer Support Services. Moving forward, we will be announcing support for new configuration via our Configuration Manager Team blog directly from our finger tips to your eyes. While we are on the topic, you might be wondering what to expect from our team when new versions of our dependencies release. First, let's establish some terminology. We consider our ‘externals' anything that our product is dependent on (or specific features are dependent on) that is not developed by our own development teams. We have dependencies on platforms like Windows or SQL, or components like .NET Framework or the Bandwidth Intelligent Throttling Service (BITS). We currently track over 26 external dependencies against our product.
Each time a new version of an external is going to release, our team assesses whether or not we will offer support for this new external. Often this will involve some ‘scout' testing, some sanity check to see if there are any [Read more]