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The Manageability Guys
Disabling User Program Notification for Virtual Applications
Posted
8 months ago
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Rob York
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I’ve been sitting on this for a little while, partly due to getting confirmation I wasn’t doing anything unsupported, partly because I haven’t had time and partly a couple of other reasons I won’t go in to! The good news...
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Modelling Conceptual Entities in a SCOM 2007 Management Pack
Posted
9 months ago
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Rob York
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Drum roll please…. Below is the first Operations Manager blog to be submitted to the Manageability Guys! Meaning we can now live up to our name as it isn’t just Configuration Manager articles. My OpsMgr knowledge is limited at best but...
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Testing SLP Availability
Posted
10 months ago
by
Rob York
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Hi all, A quick one from me. Ever had site discovery issues on your client machine? You can stick one of the following into your web browser to confirm that the Server Locator Point is up and running: If you use AD Sites for boundaries...
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HELP! Where did the disk space on my Management Point go?
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11 months ago
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Rob York
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Recently I was working with a customer and we found that their ConfigMgr Management Point had an unexpectedly low amount of disk space left. When we looked at this machine we found that there were lots of IIS Logs in the %SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\LogFiles...
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What Accounts Should I Be Using?
Posted
11 months ago
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Rob York
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Something which I have seen recently on a few occasions is that customers using the same credentials for ConfigMgr Client Push account and the Network Access Account. Sometimes, for simplicity sake the account is even a member of Domain Admins. It’s...
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Useful ConfigMgr Resources (Updated)
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11 months ago
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Rob York
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A while back (2 years to be precise) Saud posted a list of resources to do with ConfigMgr. Below is a well overdue update to that list: ConfigMgr Resources/Information: Learning : TechCenter on TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us...
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Improving ConfigMgr Console Performance - Removing the Action Pane
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11 months ago
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Rob York
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Sometimes I find that the console in ConfigMgr does not perform as quickly as I would like. My last blog post on this topic showed how we can speed up the boot time for the SCCM console by turning off a web check, but how about when I am in the console...
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Are My Backups Really Taking Place?
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over 1 year ago
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Rob York
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Something which I have seen as a recurring theme a few times with customers is with backups failing and them not realising. While, of course we would always recommend that you have a test environment with some Hyper-V images where you can always test...
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Improving ConfigMgr Console Performance - Disable TechCenter Homepage
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over 1 year ago
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Rob York
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In Configuration Manager 2007 does it take a while for the console to start? If so, then this little tip will help. The Console home page attempts to connect to Microsoft whenever you open up the console. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library...
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Fully Automating P2V Migration for Software Assurance in ConfigMgr
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over 1 year ago
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Rob York
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I ’ve had this topic on my to-do list for a few months now. I presented on P2V Migration at a customer day we hosted at Thames Valley Park in February. My hesitation came from not really knowing how much to cover in terms of the blog. I’m...
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PKI – It’s a trust Thing!
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over 1 year ago
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Rob York
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Part 4 of what currently still stands at a four part series. But I have high hopes for further posts. I was going to start off the intro to this blog by congratulating Jason on avoiding falling into the cliché trap of using Bob & Alice and...
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How to get a report with Friendly scan errors
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over 1 year ago
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SaudM
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Hi Everyone, I haven’t posted anything in ages so I thought I’d post something simple but hopefully useful. We publish a list of all custom Configuration Manager 2007 errors in TechNet (it’s up here in case you haven’t seen it http://technet.microsoft...
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PKI – Let’s make it Secure
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over 1 year ago
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Rob York
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Post three of what currently stands at a 4 part introduction to Public Key Infrastructure from my colleague Jason Wallace. Jason is laying the foundations to cover some ConfigMgr related certificatary (I know that's not really a word, but it's the end...
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Deploying Office Environment Assessment Tool (OEAT) with ConfigMgr
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over 1 year ago
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Rob York
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I was approached by a colleague who specialises in Office about this particular tool and thought I would post my findings from playing about with it in my test environment. It will probably be fairly obvious from reading this post that I know very little...
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PKI – Let’s make it Public
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over 1 year ago
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Rob York
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Welcome to part two in the series from Jason Wallace on Public Key Infrastructure. If you didn't read Jason's first article explaining PKI I suggest you nip back down the post list of The Manageability Guys to get up to speed. Over to you again Jason...
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PKI - Let's Keep it Secret
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over 1 year ago
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Rob York
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Over here in Thames Valley Park, myself and a few colleagues attended a brilliant session on Intel vPRO, in particular, playing about with AMT (Active Management Technology) which integrates with Configuration Manager under the Out Of Band Management...
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Preventing PXE Boot on Servers and Other Critical Client Systems Using MACIgnoreListFile
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over 1 year ago
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Rob York
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Following on from my last post here’s another method you can implement to protect specific clients in your environment. There is a documented but seemingly little known setting in the registry of the PXE Service Point Role in Configuration...
The Manageability Guys
Which Device Drivers Should I Import Into My Boot Image?
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over 1 year ago
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Rob York
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Today’s post comes from a colleague here in the UK, Jason Wallace. Jason is a fellow Configuration Manager Premier Field Engineer. Here he shares his knowledge and experience on device drivers in boot images. Enough of me, over to Jason! ...
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Preventing Operating System Deployment On Servers And Other Critical Client Systems
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over 1 year ago
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Rob York
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An uncharacteristically short one from me today; although normality will soon be resumed! There isn't usually much scope for catastrophe in the daily workings of ConfigMgr and very few companies I know of would consider it a business critical application...
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Software Deployment to Barely Connected Users
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over 2 years ago
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Rob York
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In a world where high-speed Internet connections are ubiquitous, even laptop computers can be expected to have some form of regular connection to the Internet or corporate network. However in the past few months the same scenario has cropped up in conversations...
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Using SCCM Local Policy to Selectively Restrict App-V Integration
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over 2 years ago
by
Rob York
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I am sure my customer are not alone in their desire to control the way in which Configuration Manager takes ownership of Virtual Application delivery to clients on a network. I hope this entry is able to help a few more of you: Because the change...
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System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Toolkit V2 Released
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over 2 years ago
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Rob York
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Manageability Post Details for PFE UK
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over 2 years ago
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Rob York
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Fancy a new career as a Premier Field Engineer in the UK?
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over 2 years ago
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Rob York
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Following continued successes, Premier Field Engineering in the UK has started recruiting for engineers across a number of technology areas; including System Center Configuration Manager and System Center Operation Manager. If you are interested...
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Enumerate Open Ports Script for DCM
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over 2 years ago
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Rob York
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This comes up quite often, so I thought I share a method I came up with to enumerate open ports in VBScript using netstat. Basically the script, which is available here on TechNet Script Center , runs “netstat –a –n” and parses...
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