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Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:36 PM

One More Certification Exam

I was finally shamed into it by several of the MyITForum guys: I took the 70-401 certification exam , "TS: Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Configuring", and yes, I passed with flying colors. I actually liked the exam: nothing too fancy,
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:10 PM

Dynamic application detection with Lite Touch

I've given a variety of presentations at past TechEd and MMS events (as well as our own internal TechReady conferences) talking about making deployments more dynamic. One of the scenarios discussed was dynamic package installation with ConfigMgr 2007.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 3:31 AM

Last-minute reminder: Windows Vista performance webcast Wednesday morning (PST)

Anyone interested in a webcast on Windows Vista performance? Mark Russinovich is hosting a roundtable discussion webcast tomorrow morning, part of the Springboard series, at 9 a.m. Pacific time with a panel of IT pro experts: customers, partners, MVPs,
Posted by mniehaus | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:26 PM

TechEd EMEA IT Professionals 2008 coming up soon

The name is slightly changed this year (no more "IT Forum" in the name, to align better with the TechEd US event), but the same great content. See the http://www.microsoft.com/emea/teched2008/itpro/ website for the details, and be sure to check out the
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Sunday, September 21, 2008 7:57 AM

ConfigMgr 2007 R2's Unknown Computer Support

Several people have asked me how the unknown computer support in ConfigMgr R2 works. I can honestly say I don't know because I haven't had a chance to try it yet. (I've been busy on other things.) Fortunately, Steve Rachui has had time to explore the
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Friday, September 19, 2008 9:25 AM

I'm a PC

Today was the annual Microsoft Company Meeting, where all the Seattle-area employees get together in one of the few places big enough to hold us all, Safeco Field (home of the Seattle Mariners). This year, the event was hosted by Rainn Wilson ( http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity-biography/rainn-wilson/
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Saturday, September 13, 2008 1:40 AM

Using the Hyper-V integration components with MDT 2008 Update 1 Lite Touch

There have been some blog postings talking about how to add the Hyper-V integration components into Windows PE. The first from Mike Sterling, available at http://blogs.msdn.com/mikester/archive/2008/05/30/using-the-hyper-v-integration-components-in-winpe.aspx
Posted by mniehaus | 10 Comments
Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:14 PM

ConfigMgr 2007 SP1 slowing down your task sequence executions?

If you've noticed a 90-second delay added between each package installed by a task sequence (whether from individual "Install Software" steps installing single packages or from a single "Install Software" step processing a variable list) since installing
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Saturday, September 06, 2008 4:00 AM

Another conference complete (well, two of them actually)

I gave two presentations at TechEd New Zealand in Auckland and five sessions at TechEd Australia in Sydney this week. Now I think I need to take a vacation to recover - too bad I just got back from vacation. Anyway, both conferences were great, both cities
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