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July 2006 - Posts

Nice "blogcast" on ImageX

Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 1:22 AM by tmintner
Chris Haaker over at the Blogcastrepository has created a great "blogcast" (screencast for some) on how to use ImageX. http://blogcastrepository.com/blogcasts/37/windows_workstation/entry1586.aspx For those of you who aren't familiar with ImageX, it is Read More...
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Great Video on Bitlocker on Channel9

Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 3:20 PM by tmintner
In case you haven't already seen this, Channel9 has posted a great video discussing Bitlocker encryption with Vista. Since I am primarily working on Vista TAP engagements right now this topic is very near and dear to my heart. Here is the link to the Read More...
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Powershell to see what Updates have been installed

Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 8:48 PM by tmintner
I was playing around in Powershell today and ran into this nice set of commands that will show you what Updates have been installed as known by the Windows Update Agent: First create a variable and bind it to the "Microsoft.Update.Searcher" Com Object: Read More...
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Day in the life of

Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 1:07 AM by tmintner
I often get asked, "What is it that you actually do for Microsoft?" Well the short answer is that I am a consultant in the Managment, Operations, and Deployment space. Unless they are IT savvy that usually generates a deer in the headlights look. For Read More...
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Powershell and Active Directory

Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 5:55 PM by tmintner
Mow posted another great blog entry on how to access User properties in Active Directory with Powershell. This guy's blog is just awesome. You should definitely start to grab his feeds: http://mow001.blogspot.com/2006/07/powershell-and-active-directory-part-3.htm Read More...
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Thanks Rod for all of the Links!

Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 5:47 PM by tmintner
Thank you Rod for all of the links to my blog posts. Rod stated here ( http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/07/03/21768.aspx) that I "was" a great community person. Well I hope to continue to be a great community person. I feel like I am Read More...
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Use Powershell to add virtual machines to Virtual Server

Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:20 AM by tmintner
Back to a topic that I know I won't get dinged on. :) I was playing arround with the list of available COM ProgID's by using the command in Jeffrey Snover's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/06/29/650913.aspx I ran this command to see Read More...
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DirectPush with Windows Mobile 5. What to look for to not use Text Messaging

Posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 11:50 PM by tmintner
Ok. After the slack I took for my last my post: http://blogs.technet.com/tmintner/archive/2006/07/03/440029.aspx I did some research as to why I was being charged for Text messages on my phone when I thought I was using DirectPush with Exchange Server Read More...
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Update: Wrong Setting: Beware of Text Messaging and Direct Push email with Windows Mobile 5

Posted Monday, July 03, 2006 5:36 PM by tmintner
***Quick Update*** Thanks to all who posted comments and emailed me. It turns out that the wrong setting was turned on with my phone. I was using a pre-Windows Mobile 5 feature that used Text Messaging. Sorry for the confusion and thanks to everyone for Read More...
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Use Powershell to find SMS errors

Posted Monday, July 03, 2006 5:20 PM by tmintner
I was working onsite with a client last week and we were testing SMS V4 (SCCM 2007) OS Deployment features. While we were working we were having numerous client connectivity errors and often had to pull up good ol' notepad or SMS Trace to find the errors. Read More...
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