Register to attend the Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference I wanted to let you know about a great free event that Microsoft and the MVPs are putting on, May 14th & 15th. Join Microsoft MVPs from the...
Read MoreQUICKPOST…. Hey there I wanted to write up a quick note on a new way to connect your on premise Active Directory to Windows Azure. It is called Azure AD Connect and can be is now available for download....
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During the process of building the outline for our book Advanced Windows Deployments using 1E...
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This is the last video that will cover the ViaMonstra Post Configuration tasks required to get the...
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In the next BlogCast of this series, Dave and I start performing some post-installation tasks in...
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For a number of years now, Johan Arwidmark has been publishing Hydration Kits from his...
Read MoreThe 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 MoreCumulative 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 MoreCumulative 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 MoreHaving 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 MoreOne 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 MoreIn 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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This was a session that I did in Vancouver in September 2014 at MVPDays Session – Advanced Windows...
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This was a session that I did in Vancouver in September 2014 at MVPDays. Session – Best Practices...
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This was a session that I did in Vancouver in September of 2014 at MVPDays. Session –...
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As requested by the attendees of the presentation tonight. Please find the links to...
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Well we finally got the green light at one of my customers to upgrade them to Windows 2012 R2...
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I wanted to show a really cool routing Modification that I have built to Johan’s Hydration...
Read MoreThere 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 MoreIn 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 MoreThis 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 MoreFor 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 MoreIn 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 MoreIn 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...
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