I'm Robert Marshall, director and senior consultant at SMSMarshall Ltd who's specialism is in the Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager product and all of its dependent products covering all aspects from Architecture, Implementation, Migration to Break-Fix.
I've been using computers for over 30 years, beginning as a programmer and now a senior consultant in an enterprise product. I only count my career as starting 17 years ago when I began my first serious role as a deployment engineer. I've seen 8 bit through to 64 bit, the rise and constant refinement of the GUI, the rise of the Internet from land-line based modem access to the powerful broadband connections we have today, mobile phones come into existence, and I've seen Microsoft evolve from a handful of employees to the company it is now while pretty much tinkering with every OS they have released; As well as seeing an industry that has evolved around those humble beginnings to become what we have today. You could call me an IT Dinosaur but I'm still as mentally able as I was back then, perhaps even more adept now since I've had broad exposure to so much and seen trends come and go. I'm a keen technical puzzle solver, which sets me apart as I love to solve gnarly problems around my area of specialism.
I like to share, i do so by blogging here, and helping out when I can as a moderator and answering questions when I have time on the TechNet Social forums for ConfigMgr 2012 and ConfigMgr 2007. I am a guest poster on TechNet UK Flash magazine and an MVP since 2009 (Most Valuable Professional) in the ECM (Enterprise Client Management) exclusively dedicated to ConfigMgr. the MVP status helps me to help others in more depth due to the closeness to the product group and access to other MVP's the program affords me.
The blogs pretty much about ConfigMgr, but on the odd occasion I also use it as a platform to express my random urges to post something I've stumbled across, be it technical or non-technical, and which I imagine would entertain you or what not as equally as it did me.
(2013)
This is a brief and silent 6 minute video showing how to utilise Role Based Administration to create a new user with a custom security role and scope. The idea is to highlight how easy it is to accomplish the task using ConfigMgr 2012.
ConfigMgr 2012 - Beta 2 - Build 7561 - Creating a low rights user
Check out the speed of the console load, Comes in at less than 10 seconds! The VM is running on a reasonably high spec'd box, but the console immediately begins to make the efects of the complete rewrite, and divorcing from MMC, felt.
Keep in mind that this is a beta preview, and subject to change.
Check out RBA in the Documentation Library for ConfigMgr 2012
Configure Role-Based Administration in Configuration Manager 2012
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg712300.aspx
Collections in Configuration Manager 2012
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682169.aspx
What’s New in the Documentation for Configuration Manager 2012
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682142.aspx