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.
Quest have been filling a niche for a long time now, giving us the ability to extend ConfigMgr (SMS) to non-windows based platforms.
I landed on their agent-less extensions page earlier and thought I'd blog it because it surprised me how much OS support they have
http://management-extensions.org/configagentless.jspa
There is also an agen extensions page
http://management-extensions.org/configagentbased.jspa
Tons of info on that site to help an admin evaluation and implement these extensions.