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Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:50 PM

Piles and piles of Dell drivers

For those of you who attended my driver management sessions at MMS 2009 and TechEd 2009 US, you know that Dell is planning to provide CAB files for many of their machines, starting with the corporate laptop models.  These are “raw” drivers, provided
Posted by mniehaus | 4 Comments
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 7:54 AM

Freaky sight: IE 6 running on Windows 7

I installed the Windows Virtual PC and XP Mode betas on my laptop running Windows 7 RC.  If you haven’t tried it yet, you can download the pieces (both of them) from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx .  The installation
Posted by mniehaus | 1 Comments
Friday, May 15, 2009 7:57 AM

Live from TechEd: Talking about Windows 7 and Deployment

This week at TechEd, Tim Mintner, Rhonda Layfield, Mikael Nystrom, Johan Arwidmark, Jeremy Chapman, and I participated in a Springboard panel discussion hosted by Stephen Rose talking about Windows 7 and related Windows deployment.  You can watch
Posted by mniehaus | 2 Comments
Friday, May 15, 2009 6:30 AM

More ConfigMgr and SQL Server 2008 issues

There was a fix released back in September that got ConfigMgr 2007 working with SQL Server 2008, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955229 .  I also had a post earlier today, ConfigMgr hotfix for driver issues when using SQL Server 2008 , to address
Posted by mniehaus | 1 Comments
Friday, May 15, 2009 1:00 AM

Manipulating the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit database using PowerShell

A couple of weeks ago at the Microsoft Management Summit conference in Las Vegas, I demonstrated some PowerShell scripts for doing a variety of things.  I had promised to post those to my blog so that you could use them as well.  This is the
Posted by mniehaus | 4 Comments

Attachment(s): MDTDB.zip
Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:18 PM

ConfigMgr hotfix for driver issues when using SQL Server 2008

A new KB article, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955262 , was posted recently with a fix for issues you may encounter when dealing with drivers if your site server is using SQL Server 2008.  Be sure to read the details in the KB article closely,
Posted by mniehaus | 4 Comments
 
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