Taking Hydration to the Next Level – Part 4 – ViaMonstra SCCM Post Configuration
During the process of building the outline for our book Advanced Windows Deployments using 1E...
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Taking Hydration to the Next Level – Part 3 – ViaMonstra SCCM Post Configuration
This is the last video that will cover the ViaMonstra Post Configuration tasks required to get the...
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Taking Hydration to the Next Level – Part 2 – Reporting Services and Discovery
In the next BlogCast of this series, Dave and I start performing some post-installation tasks in...
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Taking Hydration to the Next Level
For a number of years now, Johan Arwidmark has been publishing Hydration Kits from his...
Read MoreInstalling System Center Configuration Manager 2012R2 Cumulative Update 4 Step by Step
The first step to install Cumulative Update 4 is to download the actual CU4 update binaries, which can be acquired by going to https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3026739 and clicking on the Hotfix Download Available link,...
Read MoreSystem Center Configuration Manager 2012R2 Cumulative Update 4 PowerShell Fixes and Additions
Cumulative Update 4 for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager included many additions and changes to the PowerShell cmdlets that are used to manage the environment. Here is a list of all the additions, fixes, and changes...
Read MoreSystem Center Configuration Manager 2012R2 Cumulative Update 4 Released!
Cumulative Update 4 for SCCM 2012 R2 was release by Microsoft on January 29, 2015. Along with issues fixed by the previous Cumulative Updates, CU4 provides support for App-V 5.0SP2 and specifically addresses the following:...
Read MoreTop Level Limiting Collections for Configuration Manager 2012
Having been through quite a few CM07 to CM12 migrations over the past few years, one of the things that I have seen heavily used in previous versions is nested collections, which had a similar functionality in SCCM as nested...
Read MoreDynamic Server Collections for Managed Endpoint Protection in Configuration Manager 2012
One of the reasons why I really like System Center Endpoint Protection is its ease of management. This goes double when we’re using it to manage servers, as we get to leverage all the stuff that Configuration Manager has...
Read MorePatching Images in Configuration Manager 2012 to Reduce Deployment Time
In my previous post, we went through the process of using Automatic Deployment Rules to create a fully automated patching process, complete with a pilot period, ideal for SMB customers. We’re now going to take those same...
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MVPDays Session – Advanced Windows Deployments
This was a session that I did in Vancouver in September 2014 at MVPDays Session – Advanced Windows...
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MVPDays Session – Best Practices for Virtualizing and Managing SharePoint with System Center and Hyper-V
This was a session that I did in Vancouver in September 2014 at MVPDays. Session – Best Practices...
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MVPDays Session – Designing Hyper-V the Right Way – Building a Cluster in < 20 Minutes
This was a session that I did in Vancouver in September of 2014 at MVPDays. Session –...
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Calgary IT Pro – Designing Hyper-V the Right Way
As requested by the attendees of the presentation tonight. Please find the links to...
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Windows 2003 End of Life (EOL) – Here comes trouble – Our First Windows 2012 R2 Domain Controller (Watch your Hotfixes)
Well we finally got the green light at one of my customers to upgrade them to Windows 2012 R2...
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Routing Mod for Johan’s Hydration Kit
I wanted to show a really cool routing Modification that I have built to Johan’s Hydration...
Read MoreOSDWeek with Johan Arwidmark and Dave Kawula
There are two main technical factors with implementing a new Operating System across your enterprise: Ensuring you have an infrastructure that can support the migration process, and acquiring the expertise to upgrade your end...
Read MoreDeploying Windows 8.1 to SMBs using Nomad Branch Step by Step
In the first post in this series, we created an OSD Task Sequence that is ideal for the SMB market. We touched on some of the automation options available with MDT, and were ultimately able to deploy operating systems to...
Read MoreDeploying Windows 8.1 to SMBs using Configuration Manager 2012 R2
This is the first post of a series that will walk you through the process to create a Task Sequence in Configuration Manager 2012 R2 that can be deployed for all scenarios (Bare Metal, Refresh, Replace). It uses MDT 2013 to...
Read MoreUpgrading to Windows 2012 Hyper-V – DR Site to Server 2012 and configuring Veeam Backup and Replication 7x for DR Replicas
For today’s mission I was tasked with building a DR Site for Hyper-V using Veeam Backup and Replication 7.x. I wanted to walk you through the steps that I took in order to accomplish this task. The Current Configuration...
Read MoreUpgrading from Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V to 2012 R2 – NIC Configuration
In this post I will show you how to move a Hyper-V Virtual Machine from one Hyper-V Server to another without the use of Live Migrations. If find this technique very useful when I am swapping out hardware and just need a simple...
Read MoreUpgrading to Windows 2012 Hyper-V – IO Accelerator IOPS Testing
In this post I will show a server that we have taken from Server 2008 R2 and upgraded to Server 2012.This particular server had been in production for the past 2 years and ran all production workloads for this company. Now it is...
Read MoreDeploying Active Directory Replica DC to Azure
A lot of us have been setting up Hybrid Cloud (Azure) environments and one of the first things that needs to be done is setup a Replica Domain Controller. This post will show the steps that I followed to get this done. Before...
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