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• Moving my Blog to my New Site

  If you have run across my blog searching for content, I am no longer here on myITforum. I will leave my posts in the hope that it helps someone looking... Posted Jan 30 2006, 11:31 PM by btucker with | with no comments Filed under: Personal Links, myITforum Articles, SMS SQL Queries, Systems Management, Active Directory, Pinball Machines, Who am I?, Windows, Miscellaneous, Custom SMS Tools, Blogcasts, Patch Configurations, Downloads, The Blogcast Repository Newsletter, Mr. Hand

• WE ARE LIVE!!

  Looks like DNS has begun to replicate asross the USA. Getting confirmation that east and west coast can hit the new site. Let me know what ya think! Man... Posted Jan 30 2006, 10:38 PM by btucker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Systems Management, Blogcasts, The Blogcast Repository Newsletter

• The DNS Request Change has been made for The Blogcast Repository

  WOW, I have been waiting for this for almost 6 months! Seems like one thing after another has held me back from making the change to the new site. Community... Posted Jan 30 2006, 07:12 PM by btucker with | with no comments Filed under: Systems Management, Blogcasts, The Blogcast Repository Newsletter

• BlogCast: Manage Unix Operating Systems in SMS 2003

  I spent 3 days in Utah last week meeting with the Vintela (Quest) development group to learn about their VMX extension to the SMS 2003 admin console. The... Posted Dec 27 2005, 01:32 PM by btucker with | with no comments Filed under: Systems Management, Blogcasts

• Someone to look out for.....

  If you have yet to notice, Matt Broadstock is hitting us with some great information on SMS and scripting for Active Directory. If you are not reading... Posted Nov 15 2005, 11:43 PM by btucker with | with no comments Filed under: Personal Links, Systems Management, Active Directory, Miscellaneous

• I can see that the cat is out of the bag....

  Ok, I have been talking about some site changes for The Blogcast Repository for a while now. However, for those who have asked, I have been providing links... Posted Nov 08 2005, 10:12 PM by btucker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Personal Links, myITforum Articles, SMS SQL Queries, Systems Management, Active Directory, Who am I?, Windows, Miscellaneous, Custom SMS Tools, Blogcasts, Patch Configurations, Downloads, The Blogcast Repository Newsletter

• ITMU Updates Fail when Scan Tool fails to Run

  We ran across an issue the other week where we had 10 - 20 SMS clients per site that were failing to run the new updates because the scan tool had failed... Posted Nov 08 2005, 01:18 PM by btucker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Systems Management, Custom SMS Tools

• More on Download and Execute

  I commented on Richard's post the other day and he sent me an email in response. Here's what he sent. As soon as I have a spare moment, I will test it... Posted Oct 20 2005, 02:06 PM by btucker with | with no comments Filed under: Systems Management

• Windows XP Family vs Windows XP???

  If you have been using the ITMU, you have seen that in the product column of Software Updates there is Windows XP family. As of the newest patches this... Posted Oct 18 2005, 10:38 AM by btucker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Systems Management

• SMS 2003: Download and Execute by Default

  Richard posted this a few months ago and I wanted to point some things out. Matt gave me all the values for this and we implemented value 72 as shown below... Posted Oct 17 2005, 02:54 PM by btucker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Systems Management, Custom SMS Tools

• Microsoft Security Patches via SMS 2003

  I completed our upgrade to the ITMU last month and tested to a site with 260 some odd workstations. Out of all those machines, only 4 failed. They failed... Posted Oct 14 2005, 03:52 PM by btucker with | with no comments Filed under: Systems Management

• SMS Expert

  I have been talking to Dave Jaffe from SMS Expert for a while now on several issues. I have always been really impressed by his understanding of SMS and... Posted Oct 07 2005, 07:45 PM by btucker with | with no comments Filed under: Systems Management

• SMS 2003 Admin Position in St. Louis

  The client I have been working with is looking for a SMS administrator for a full time position. The position is part of the Active Directory Design Team... Posted Sep 29 2005, 09:27 AM by btucker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Systems Management, Active Directory, Miscellaneous

• Thank You Gentlemen!

  I added a bit of code earlier today where you can link to my website from your blog. Thanks to the following, I have received a number of new visitors... Posted Sep 28 2005, 07:02 PM by btucker with | with no comments Filed under: Systems Management, Miscellaneous, Blogcasts

• More on ITMU from Microsoft

  I wanted to pass along the final email I received from Microsoft in regard to the issues I experienced while doing a site reset during the install of KB901034... Posted Sep 15 2005, 12:45 PM by btucker with | with no comments Filed under: Systems Management, Patch Configurations