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Getting Operations Manager 2007 Overrides with Powershell

Posted Wednesday, December 06, 2006 7:55 PM by tmintner
I am currently on an Operations Manager 2007 project and it's been a lot of fun so far. One of the new concepts of Operations Manager 2007 is that any change made to the provided management packs are done through the use of Overrides. Overrides were very Read More...
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Add myITforum Search to IE7

Posted Wednesday, November 22, 2006 3:29 PM by tmintner
One of the cool features of IE7 is that you can easily add any new search provider to your search bar. I use myITforums Forums search quite a bit when finding answers to problems to I created my own search provider for searching their forums. To do this Read More...
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Group Policy in Windows Vista Webcast

Posted Wednesday, November 22, 2006 3:07 PM by tmintner
I will be posting over the next few months about all of the new management features in Vista. It is easy to say that Vista will be the most "management" friendly OS that we have released to date. To get you started you should really watch the webcast Read More...
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Download the Windows AIK

Posted Wednesday, November 22, 2006 3:00 PM by tmintner
The Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) is now available for download. This download includes the much anticipated Windows PE 2.0 which is the primary installation delivery method of Windows Vista. I have been using the WAIK for several months now Read More...
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System Center Operations Manager 2007 Shell

Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 4:38 PM by tmintner
In case you are not aware, you can use Powershell to manage many aspects of Operations Manager 2007. The Shell team for OM 2007 has started a blog and has a nice introduction to the new tool(s) here: http://blogs.msdn.com/scshell/ Read More...
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Adminpak on Vista RTM

Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 10:55 AM by tmintner
Wow it has been a long time since I've posted anything. I have been heads down getting my customers ready to deploy Vista in their environments. There was so much information to keep track of on what we could and could not share, I just decided to keep Read More...
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Exciting Times

Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 3:53 PM by tmintner
Wow what a week this has been. In the past week we have released Windows Vista RC1 including the new WAIK tools, and USMT 3.0 RC1. You can download both from connect.microsoft.com if you have access. You should also be able to download Vista RC1 from Read More...
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Motorola Q Update

Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 3:46 PM by tmintner
I'm not sure how I missed this one but the update for the Motorola Q is now available. This update includes the much anticipated Security Update which allows True Exchange 2003 push. Motorola has also included easier support for tethering your Q to your Read More...
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Great stuff coming in the System Center family

Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:43 AM by tmintner
Well I am back after having a week at Techready 3 in Seattle and a week of vacation. I have caught up with the over 400+ email messages and am back to blogging. Techready 3 was awesome. We have SOO many great products coming out in the System Center Family. Read More...
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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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