Month: December 2009

So I’ve invested in a Seagate FreeAgent XTreme eSata external drive primarily for the performance benefits I hope to get over regular USB/ Firewire which needless to say I’ve had to pay extra for. The drive has just arrived and I’ve eagerly opened it…(read more)

Seeing the following post on the ConfigMgr Support Team blog made me reflect on the beginning of the end for SMS 2003. The product has evolved immensely since I started working with it over 11 years ago (SMS 2.0 SP2), and every iteration the product has…(read more)

It seems there is an issue in ConfigMgr SP2 with Distribution Manager ignoring the "Number of retries" and "Delay before retrying" settings ONLY if it encounters a problem (i.e. a DP is down or there are permission problems). Microsoft…(read more)

PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 15, 2009 HP Enterprise Services today announced PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) has joined the HP Agility Alliance . Together, HP and PwC will provide business transformation solutions and services that help clients streamline…(read more)

I saw this article on the Telegraph's website and was blown away by the image of the Goat herder in Yemen (image 3). I need to add Yemen to the list of “Places to Visit” (it would probably be easier to start a list instead of places NOT to visit)…(read more)

Full Title: E-mail notification messages are not sent when you use the "With specific text in description" option in Operations Manager 2007 R2 or in Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 SYMPTOMS You create an Alert Notification subscription…(read more)

Overview The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.1 helps organizations maintain virtual machines that are stored offline in a Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager library. While stored, virtual machines do not receive operating system…(read more)

You can download the technical documentation for VMM 2008 R2 from: Version: 1.0 Date Published: 12/10/2009 Language: English Download Size: 110 KB – 975 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e547b676-112f-419e…(read more)

From the TechNet Edge blog: Senior developer Mike Niehaus had previously demonstrated how to deploy Windows 7 natively using Configuration Manager 2007 . Now, he leads you through the same process using the recently-released Microsoft Deployment Toolkit…(read more)