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Tuesday, January 03, 2012 8:26 AM
[MVP] Congratulations 2012 Microsoft MVP!
Well my 2012 got off to a fantastic start with the email from Microsoft telling me I've been re-awrded my ConfigMgr MVP for the 9th consecutive year for which I feel very honoured and humbled at the same time. I like to try to do "my bit"...
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011 4:02 AM
[ConfigMgr 2012] FEEDBACK ASK FROM MICROSOFT: Survey on Out of Band Management
Jason Tang who is the PM for Out of Band Management has created a short survey to help the OOB Feature Team get a better understanding of how OOB in used. So if you’ve got a few spare minutes please consider participating, full details below: “ Hi everyone...
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Friday, July 01, 2011 9:02 AM
[ConfigMgr 2007][ConfigMgr 2012] Announcement: Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for June 2011
The Documentation Team have been busy again and have announced the following updates: What's New in the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library...
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Friday, May 13, 2011 5:51 AM
[Downloads] Looking for a Free IP Subnet Calculator?
An IP subnet calculator should be one of the key tools you have in your "SMS/ ConfigMgr" toolkit for those times when you need to calculate a boundary based on a non-standard subnet mask I've always used the free WildPackets one (now renamed...
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Tuesday, May 03, 2011 11:23 AM
[Deployment] Watch out for systems starting to ship with AF Hard Disk Drives
OK this is a potential scary situation you could find yourself in without knowing it. I wasn't aware until my good friend and fellow MVP Greg Ramsey of Dell told me about the new Advanced Format (AF 4k) drives that are going to start shipping in Dell...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:11 PM
[Intune] Are you using SMS but dreading the upgrade to ConfigMgr or are you looking to move your Systems Management into the Cloud?
First off the upgrade to SMS to ConfigMgr isn't that bad but it does take a fair degree of analysis and planning to understand the existing SMS environment, decide what needs to be migrated and the method for performing the actual upgrade which I...
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Friday, March 04, 2011 7:05 PM
[MVP] MVP Summit 2011 - A Week in Review
Well as I sit here in Seattle Tacoma airport waiting for my flight back to Heathrow I thought I'd reflect on the past week. The sole purpose of my trip was to spend the week with the ConfigMgr Product Group as part of the MVP Summit where basically...
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Friday, February 25, 2011 9:53 AM
[MVP] Packing for the MVP Summit Next Week
Well I'm in the middle of packing to venture over to Seattle tomorrow to attend the MVP Summit all of next week. To me this is one of best privileges of being a MVP - the opportunity to spend a week locked in the room with the Product Group and my...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011 1:32 PM
[Microsoft] Your Chance to be frank with Microsoft by joining the ICAB for FREE
The Microsoft Server and Cloud Division Information Experience Team are recruiting IT Pros to join their new International Customer Advisory Board or "ICAB", which is YOUR opportunity to give them honest and frank opinions about System Center...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011 1:22 PM
[WMUG] Videos and Slides from Wally's Event Now Available
Just a quick post to let you all know that we've posted both the slide decks and videos from our event with Wally Mead on the 1st November last year. You can access the videos at: http://wmug.co.uk/groups/wmug_event_content/pages/wmug-event-1st-november...
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Wednesday, January 05, 2011 6:11 AM
[MMS] 2011 Session Catalog Now Online
If you're going to MMS 2011 you'll want to checkout the Session Catalog which is now live and also available as a PDF: http://www.mms-2011.com/Topic/List
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Sunday, January 02, 2011 4:14 AM
[MVP] Congratulations 2011 Microsoft MVP!
The start of the New Year is always an exciting time for me but the 1st of January is always a bit of a nail biting day for me as this is when I find out whether my MVP has been renewed, something I never take for granted. Well I'm ecstatic and delighted...
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010 5:41 AM
[WMUG] Event 1st November - THANK YOU
We'd like to thank all of you that took the time to attend our event yesterday which we hope you found useful (I know I certainly did). I'd also like to thank Wally and Randy for taking the time out of their very busy schedules to stop off in...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:15 AM
[WMUG] UPDATE: LOTS More Tickets for our Next Event 1st November - Cardinal Place, London
To try and cater for the demand we've managed to double the capacity for our event next Monday at Microsoft's offices in Cardinal Place, London. So if you'd thought you'd missed out you haven't. For full details of the event and to...
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Thursday, October 07, 2010 5:19 PM
[MMS] Registration for MMS 2011 Now Open...
Registration for MMS 2011 is now open, full details at: http://www.mms-2011.com/registrationoverview
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