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Troubleshooting SCCM Software Update Deployment Package distribution due to missing directories
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4 months ago
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I have SCCM running in my lab and ran into an issue on several occasions where the Deployment Package I created for the Software Updates started to error out on when updating the Distribution Points. In reviewing the package distribution manager log...
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My Latencies Are Too High!
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11 months ago
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Yes it has been a VERY long while since I posted. The list of what I want to post keeps getting longer and longer, as does the queue of pending requests waiting for access to me. As a result of the long queue wait times the average access...
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Making the World Greener One Monitor at a Time - Reset SCOM Monitors Enmasse
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over 3 years ago
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Recently, I’ve had the pleasure of tuning a new SCOM implementation. Like all new implementations of monitoring software there were a lot of alerts coming from the systems in the environment. As I went through and tuned the installed Management...
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LED By Excitement
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over 3 years ago
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Until yesterday, I haven’t needed to replace a light bulb in my house since I wrote the post with my analysis the cost efficiencies of LED vs. Incandescent bulbs. Historically though I’ve tended to purchase CFL whenever possible, more because I’m the...
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More robust options for locating DCs
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over 3 years ago
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While this is a blog on Technet and reasonably should be targeted towards infrastructure topics, I am including a little bit of development context in relation to Active Directory (AD). I share this as we often observe a barrier in communication between...
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Cost Efficiency of LED (or CFL) Light Bulbs
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over 3 years ago
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This week I worked on a project with one of my Microsoft peers and I helped him install some energy usage monitoring equipment in his house. Without being specific about the solution, I must say it is pretty cool. As a result of installing this and then...
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Return of the Little Shop of Drivers
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over 4 years ago
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It's been a while since I've posted. Just over a year actually... I have this long list of half started posts, but just somehow can never seem to find the time to finish them up. However, with the exciting new release of Win7, I have managed to update...
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Getting the most out of the redundancy native to AD when making applications "AD Aware"
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over 4 years ago
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Many customers ask how they can best configure applications so that the applications can take full advantage of the fault tolerance built into Active Directory (AD). While there is no one right answer to this question, there are several common strategies...
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Managing netbootGuid
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over 5 years ago
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The attribute on AD computer objects netbootGuid is very important to allowing some deployment options (RIS and WDS) to locate the computer object the hardware belongs to. Unfortunately certain activities, such as replacing the system board or swapping...
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Little Shop of Drivers
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over 5 years ago
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I take all my drivers and put them in %DRIVERS_ROOT_PATH% (see batch code below) and the install images I want to mess with in %FILES_ROOT_PATH%. One folder per driver, the script iterates through each of the folders, and runs imagex /inf for each...
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Idiosyncratic Windows Deployment Server Vista Setup Options
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over 5 years ago
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I found getting both of the below topics to work the way I wanted in Windows Deployment Server (WDS) to be surprisingly tricky and fraught with unexpected results that took me quite a while to figure out. After all, one has to run through some large portion...
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Trials and Tribulations of Learning the Vista Automated Installation Functionality
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over 5 years ago
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I've pretty much come to the end of my initial learning curve on how to automate Vista installations using the AIK. There is some great documentation out there on how to execute the specific tasks necessary to add drivers and packages to the image. However...
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Identifying Stale User and Computer Accounts
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over 5 years ago
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Using AD to determine whether or not people are still working for the company and are allowed to logon to the systems is not the ideal, and account management should happen based on knowing what accounts should and should not be use, and not by figuring...
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Performance Optimization Philosophy
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over 5 years ago
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Optimizing performance is not just about making things run faster, it is about making them run appropriately fast based on perception and cost. Several questions may be posed at this junction: Why does philosophy need to be discussed? ...
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NTLMv2 or not NTLMv2, that is the question.
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over 5 years ago
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Enabling NTLMv2 is a project always fraught with challenges, mostly due to the lack of visibility into exactly which authentication protocol is being used by a client machine. Management often is not gung-ho about the try it and see what breaks methodology...
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