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Author: Kevinsul Date: 08/22/2007

Some Common Questions (and Answers) that I Get about 'My Stuff' from EDU customers...

The following are a few common asks/questions I get most often and figured that blogging my general...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 08/21/2007

Back from the Dead - Part Deux

Is this thing on?? So this will be attempt number two for me to NOT fall asleep at the blog wheel! I...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 08/20/2007

The Quick and Cheap Steps to Perform a Lab Installation of Configuration Manager 2007 Beta 2

Pre-Requisites: The below instructions assume that you have two machines (virtual or physical). One...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 05/18/2007

Configuration Manager 2007 Beta 2 Lab Build Instructions - and yes, I am still alive!

So, wow, you would have thought I had fallen off the planet since apparently I have not blogged in...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 05/18/2007

Recording of my 'SoftGrid in K12' Webcast...

For those of you who are interested and could not make my webcast on 1/23, the following link will...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 01/26/2007

And also for those with interesting FW/port filters in their EDU networks that wish to use SoftGrid...

Kinda on the same theme as my previous post below (Bringing SoftGrid to untrust machines), you may...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 01/18/2007

Bringing SoftGrid to Workgroup (untrusted) workstations

On the Windows HiEd list serve, the topic of how best to include machines that are NOT part of your...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 01/18/2007

Upcoming EDU webcasts on SoftGrid

So I figure I would do some shameless self-promotion here for a webcast I have coming up as part of...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 12/17/2006

The Quick and Cheap Steps to Perform a Lab Installation of SMS 2003 Using Evaluation Code

Pre-Requisites: The below instructions assumes that you have two machines (virtual or physical). One...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 12/15/2006

So I am sure I am one of the last to figure this out, but it would seem that a website has sprung up...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 10/13/2006

Fun with DCM 2.0

A few or so weeks ago, we made available version 2 of our DCM (Desired Configuration Management)...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 10/13/2006

Some random thoughts about OpsMg 2007 that EDU customers may especially like...

So lately I have been developing an internal training course to help educate our internal technical...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 09/19/2006

OSDFP Updated to support Vista Images...

So it would appear that Michael Greene, our Client TSP beat me to the punch on this one but it would...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 09/19/2006

Playing with SoftGrid...

As you may or may not know, MSFT acquired a company named Softricity over the summer...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 09/06/2006

Good summary of how to use MOM to monitor non-Windows devices...

So a colleague of mine directed me to this Technet blog entry:...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 04/07/2006

Back from my 'vacation'...

So I had a few weeks off this last month as my wife and I welcomed kid #2 (check out pictures here...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 04/06/2006

MOM Tip: Searching for the rule name if only the GUID is known...

One of my customers had a situation where he was receiving warning alerts from MOM. Within the...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 03/07/2006

SMS 2003 SP 2 and MOM 2005 Resource Kit Update released!!!

SMS 2003 SP2 is now available - download here:...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 03/06/2006

Some random but useful tools for SMS...

So this is probably not news to some (or most) of you, but the following two little extensions to...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 03/06/2006

SMS Boundary Issues in Shared Subnet Scenarios

So in speaking with many of my University customers, I have found that many of them are in a...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 01/25/2006

MGMT IN EDU: Management in Education Newsletter - January 2006

Introduction Hello again! I hope everyone had a great holiday and New Year. This is now the second...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 01/09/2006

University of Iowa Implementation and use of SMS...

I had the pleasure of talking to folks from the University of IA about their current implementation...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 09/14/2005

Configuring AD groups to be targets of Software Distribution

So, Michael Greene, an Account Technology Specialist out of MN for Education sent me the following...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 09/13/2005

Having MOM alert you by voice, alarms, lights, etc., etc.

I have been asked afew times by my customers of ways outside of sending email (or pager emails) to...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 09/11/2005

SMS Sites with IP address ranges/individual IP's as boundaries...

So, in reading through the “Advanced Client Roaming’ whitepaper...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 09/07/2005

My first entry!!!

Testing 1, 2, 3...

Author: Kevinsul Date: 08/31/2005

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