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…Really – please don’t! As you can tell, I have taken a LONG hiatus from blogging these past several months. No excuse other than just slammed busy and running around the country supporting the US EDU folks to help spread the good word that
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So a few weeks ago, Mr. Joseph Corey at Carnegie Mellon University presented on how they use ConfigMgr to keep their servers in their data centers updated and patched. As one would imagine, they need to be able to tightly control the window of time
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LABMAN 2009 is slated for June 8-10 and will be held at the University of Notre Dame. I have presented/attended at this annual event the past two years and find it to be a very nice (and economical) venue catering specifically to those folks tasked
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So I know I blog about once, oh, I don't know, every 2-3 months now! :) Anyway, I aim to rectify this as I really should blog more and yes do have a lot of half-blog entries that I just never got around to finishing so stay tuned... In any
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Here are some links to some useful resources to help you further evaluate System Center and other associated Management solutions as discussed during my workshop session at HECC 2008: System Center Homepage: www.microsoft.com/systemcenter MSFT Virtualization
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So maybe I am the only one that has done this, but I have been dumb enough to now have done this twice so maybe there is someone else out there that is as 'smart' as I am! In my demo environment, I have an OpsMgr 2007 SP1 RMS on a W03 SP2 server
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Technorati Tags: OpsMgr , ACS , Operations Manager , SecureVantage Our good partners, SecureVantage are going to be conducting free online seminars starting 7/10. To register for these free courses and to receive more information, go here: http://www.securevantage.com/ACSTraining.aspx
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Coming off the LABMAN conference from a few weeks ago, I know many in the EDU community rely on disk protection and lock down tools such as Faronic's DeepFreeze and SteadyState. At the end of last week, we made SteadyState 2.5 available for free download
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The ConfigMgr homepage may not be up to date yet but here is the direct download link to download SP1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5AAE62E8-4B7F-4AF7-BE01-AEFAA4BF059A&displaylang=en This release (among the usual bug fixes)
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So I normally do not regurgitate generic technical information that you can find on one of a thousand different blog sites and podcasts unless I feel that there is unique significance to the EDU community. If you attended MMS 2008 or paid attention to
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So on a topic that is not by any means new, however one in which I have been getting a lot of recurring discussions around lately from my customers... So there seems to be a lot of different viewpoints on when or whether to re-package software for the
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Finally - the extensions to manage non-windows clients with SMS has now released for ConfigMgr! For more information go here: http://www.quest.com/quest-management-xtensions-configuration-manager/ . I know more than a few of my customers in EDU will be
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So starting this month, my associates and I on the EDU technology team (Michael Greene - http://blogs.technet.com/offcampus and Steve Straub) are starting to hit the road and meet with various EDU customers to spread the good word about System Center,
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So I don't know if this is documented anywhere, but a customer of mine was looking for a way to implement tighter security within their SoftGrid environment. Specifically, they were looking for a way to thwart a user who has access to SoftGrid applications
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Go here for more info and a link to download the MSI utility: http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid/archive/2008/01/03/the-msi-utility-for-microsoft-application-virtualization-and-hfru1-are-now-available.aspx . This will now give you the ability to un-tether
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