July 2009 - Posts
In our environment, there are two things that are critical to success of an environment that is dynamically built from scratch – Updates & Internet connectivity. This might seem odd since most would believe that we would utilize WSUS & the Software
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In order to go from nothing to a finished, completed installation of a System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) client services role such as a Distribution Point (DP) requires that an administrator configures the future DP server automatically.
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In today’s post, I will focus on how I worked with our System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) team to build the actual infrastructure and setup alerting for our infrastructure to ensure that if our Configuration Manager Distribution Points (DPs) are
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As many of you know, I’m focusing a lot of my individual time on proofing out a concept that I have termed “Dynamic Provisioning.” The idea is that you move away from manually managing your infrastructure and focus more on your “performance” metrics and
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If you are like us, we are always on the cutting edge (what do you expect – we work for Microsoft <g>) and because of this we have to often find unusual methods to work around the fact that OEM’s are not always “up to speed” and releasing installers
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