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We are a team of Microsoft Premier Field Engineers (PFEs) from the UK, specialising in System Center products, mainly Configuration Manager and Operations Manager.
A PFE works with Premier customers focussing on the health of a product, training, and maximizing the product's potential.
This blog is a collection of our notes and findings we believe and hope will be useful to others.
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More On SCCM and Powershell
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Rob York
6
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I thought I would add to our previous post on Powershell. Powershell can make SCCM admin far easier for repetitive tasks. To make life really easy we can start creating our own “cmdlets”. Anyone can write their own cmdlets for Powershell but it...
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Deploying Office Environment Assessment Tool (OEAT) with ConfigMgr
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
Rob York
9
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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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Configuration Manager 2007 Desired Configuration Management Configuration Packs
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Rob York
0
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All downloadable Configuration Packs for ConfigMgr are available at Microsoft Pinpoint , however it isn't easy to see all the packs at once, so I have sorted them and listed them here for ease. I have simplified the titles of these packs for easier...
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Client Network Traffic tests
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over 4 years ago
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Rob York
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These postings are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no rights. The following information is for example purposes only. Do not rely on this information for a production deployment. These are meant to show the areas you should test for...
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Setting Default Domain Name in Operating System Deployment
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Rob York
2
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In Configuration Manager Operating System Deployment, it is desirable to change the default logon to the domain the computer is joined to, from the default which is the local computer. The standard way of doing this is to change the registry keys...
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How to Publish a Windows Azure Application with System Center 2012 Orchestrator: Easy as 1, 2, 3!
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6 months ago
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John Erskine
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The Orchestrator team recently released the Beta Windows Azure Integration Pack for Orchestrator in System Center 2012 SP1. TechNet Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj721956.aspx Download: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p...
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How to Build a Consecutive Event Monitor for a Windows Azure Application in Operations Manager
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4 months ago
by
John Erskine
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Building a consecutive event monitor for a Windows Azure Application can be very useful. Azure applications should throw exceptions when something goes wrong, sometimes they are minor issues, other times they are major. Building monitoring for this can...
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Preventing PXE Boot on Servers and Other Critical Client Systems Using MACIgnoreListFile
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
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...
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How to Publish a Complex Windows Azure Application with System Center 2012 Orchestrator
Posted
6 months ago
by
John Erskine
1
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Following on from my previous post about how easy it was to publish an application to Windows Azure with Orchestrator, I thought it useful to complicate things and include a few scenarios we see customers using with their Windows Azure Applications. ...
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How to get a report with Friendly scan errors
Posted
over 2 years ago
by
SaudM
3
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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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