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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:06 PM

Windows 7 unveiled today

It really does exist, and today we admitted it at the Professional Developer's Conference in Los Angeles. See http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/pdc/default.mspx for all the PDC-related news, and the refocused Windows Team Blog at http://windowsteamblog.com/
Posted by mniehaus | 0 Comments
Thursday, October 23, 2008 7:39 PM

TechEd U.S. 2009 is earlier this year

The dates were posted to the TechEd website, http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2008/default.mspx , saying that TechEd 2009 would again be one week instead of two as was done last year in Orlando (and as is still done in Europe for TechEd EMEA). This
Posted by mniehaus | 0 Comments
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:28 AM

MCSA is now "MCITP: Server Administrator"

Remember a few years ago when it was a big deal if you had a Microsoft certification? Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) was the big one, with the Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) being the "baby brother". MCSA was about managing
Posted by mniehaus | 1 Comments
Thursday, October 02, 2008 8:12 AM

"Allow this program to be installed from the Install Software task sequence without being advertised"

If you are trying to install multiple software packages using a ConfigMgr task sequence "Install Software" step, where each of the package and program combinations is stored in a task sequence variable (e.g. PACKAGES001=XXX00001:Install), you might find
Posted by mniehaus | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 5:17 PM

Scripts updated in MDT 2008 Update 1

A few people have asked about the script updates that were made in MDT 2008 Update 1. Here's the quick summary listing all the scripts that were modified in MDT 2008 Update 1 and a very brief description of the changes made to each: DeployWiz_Definition_ENU.xml.
Posted by mniehaus | 10 Comments
 
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