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From time to time I get questions from partners and some prolific IP developers who want to create IP’s automatically as part of their build process instead of having to go through the wizard each time. This is especially important when you have a lot ...read more

Here’s another great article I found while perusing all the new stuff in our TechNet Wiki. This one was authored by Tim Sherer and goes through some common and maybe not so common issues you may run into when deploying VMM virtual machines and services ...read more

Just a quick FYI on a couple more System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) articles I found over in our community-driven TechNet Wiki. If you are planning on rolling out VMM, or if you already have, you’ll definitely want to check these out VMM ...read more

I was looking through the new articles over on our TechNet Wiki and came across this one that I thought you might find helpful. This one was written by Microsoft’s own Anil Erduran and in it he talks about Smart Links and link conditions in System Center ...read more

Here are a couple more VMM troubleshooting articles I stumbled across over in our TechNet Wiki this morning. The first is on troubleshooting BITS and the second is on WMI: Troubleshoot VMM: BITS Troubleshooting : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki ...read more

Here’s a cool article I found while going through what was new over on our community-driven TechNet Wiki . This one discusses some best practices for WSUS that should ease Microsoft  Forefront Endpoint Protection and Client Security deployments. ...read more

Here’s a quick FYI on a couple new System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) articles I found over in our community-driven TechNet Wiki. If you are planning on rolling out VMM, or if you already have, you’ll probably want to add these to your Favorites ...read more

Here’s one more article on WSUS that I found over on our TechNet Wiki page today. This one describes and issue where publishing an update larger than 2GB in size will fail: Consider a scenario where the following tasks are performed in WSUS running on ...read more

Here is part 2 of Anil Erduran’s series on RunBooks in Orchestrator 2012. This part covers RunBook activities and properties: In the System Center 2012 Orchestrator , activities are the building blocks of RunBooks. In general, individual activities perform ...read more

I was checking out what was new over in our TechNet Wiki and came across a System Center 2012 Service Manager Survival Guide that was recently published by a Microsoft employee.  It’s essentially a page that acts as a pointer to the best SCSM information ...read more

I was browsing through all of the great new articles over on our TechNet Wiki and came across this one that I thought you might like. It’s written by Microsoft’s own Anil Erduran and it discusses the concept of RunBooks in Orchestrator 2012.  It ...read more

Just a quick FYI on an article over on our TechNet Wiki regarding how WSUS and Cluster-Aware Updating are affected by Windows Server 8 Beta updates: There are two known issues with Windows Server "8" Beta update process: Windows 8 Beta Updates ...read more

I was looking through all of the new articles over on our TechNet Wiki and came across this one that I thought you might find useful.  It was written by Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Mazen Ahmed and it contains a few PowerShell commands that will ...read more

Here’s a great article by Microsoft’s own Anil Erduran that I found over in our TechNet Wiki . This one talks about Management Packs in SCSM 2012, the different between a sealed MP and an unsealed MP as well as how to easily seal your MP: As is the case ...read more

Here’s a cool article that I found over in our TechNet Wiki . This one was started by a Microsoft employee but since it’s on the TechNet Wiki anyone can add to it.  It’s one is a one-stop shop for all the best OpsMgr 2012 information on the web so ...read more

Here’s another cool article by Microsoft’s own Jeanie Decker that I found over in our TechNet Wiki .  This one goes over some examples of dynamic  groups in System Center Operations Manager.  Do you have examples of dynamic group formulas ...read more

Just found this great article over in our public TechNet Wiki titled System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Survival Guide .  If you’re looking at or already running ConfigMgr 2012 then you’ll definitely want to add this one to your IE Favorites ...read more

New from our community driven TechNet Wiki: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM 2010) offers with its new console in the creation of a protection group in System Protection, a new option called "Bare Metal Recovery". This option ...read more

Here’s one more article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Microsoft’s very own Steve Thomas. This one talks about some GPO settings that could potentially cause issues with MED-V features: ===== MED-V V2 leverages underlying VPC and ...read more

Here’s another great article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Microsoft’s very own Steve Thomas. This one goes through and explains the various MEDVHost.EXE command line options such as exit, FullScreen, RebootVM, toolkit and others ...read more

Here’s another great article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Microsoft’s very own Steve Thomas. This one walks you through how to adjust, increase or reduce the RTCP/RTP port ranges for use with RTSP in App-V: ===== To stream applications ...read more

Here’s a great article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Microsoft’s own Steve Thomas. This one shows how an enterprise administrator can determine MED-V 2.0 FTS completion and provide remediation quickly: ===== When deploying large ...read more

Here’s a great article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Microsoft’s own Steve Thomas. This one talks about an important additional step you need to take when virtualizing (sequencing) .NET 2.0 Framework in App-V 4.6 and above for Windows ...read more

Here’s a heads up on another cool article I found over on the TechNet Wiki that was written by Microsoft’s own Yuri Diogenes. This one walks you through deploying Windows Server Updates Services (WSUS) 3 SP2 in a DMZ protected by Forefront TMG 2010 SP2 ...read more

I can’t imagine why anyone would ever want to uninstall the best, most secure browser out there but hey, you never know.  If you ever find yourself in that position then MVP Bechir Gharbi just posted a great article on how to do just that over in ...read more