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Scheduling A Weekly Defrag Through SMS/ConfigMgr
Without any third party tools here is a simple way to create a weekly defrag task on your client workstations.  This is specific for Windows XP, although...
Automating ConfigMgr Wizard Screens
Kenneth Titlestad posted a creative way to automate the “Welcome” screen for PXE/Media boots. See his post here: http://www.deploymenttech.com/index.php...
.Net Framework Setup Verification Tool
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/pages/8999004.aspx Here is a utility that allows you to test your installation of .net framework.  I’m blogging this...
Documenting your SMS/ConfigMgr Infrastructure
Whether it’s SMS 2003 or ConfigMgr, it’s important to document your infrastructure and settings.  Thanks to the community we have a few utilities...
Windows 7: 77 tips
Excellent article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.10.77windows.aspx I’m known as the shortcut master around work, but there are some...
Powershell – Moving computers to known OU
While working on our WSUS Policy, i needed to create a script to move computer objects from whatever OU they were in (unknown) to a known OU.  I decided...
PolicyMaker registry extension crashes Group Policy snap-in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938611 Thank you Microsoft :)  If you use PolicyMaker, there is a nice issue whenever you try to view the PolicyMaker...
SMS/ConfigMgr Anti-Virus exclusion considerations
In addition to Shaun’s posting here: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/scassells/archive/2007/05/14/what-anti-virus-scanning-exclusions-should-be-considered...
Windows XP – Sysprep – Default profile settings
If you want your administrator profile on the reference image to apply as the default profile for all users, you will need to set the “UpdateServerProfileDirectory...
Process Monitoring Tools
Someone on the myitforum list mentioned this tool (YAPM) so i decided to check it out.  It’s pretty neat and feature packed. Here is the link to site...
SMS 2003 OSD from RIS/WDS
The information provided below is provided “as-is”.  Proceed at your own risk. Initial Configuration Steps I will not go into detail on these and...
Funny USMT error
So i got this error today in my smsts.log. Pretty much decided that’s enough for one day after i saw this error message.   Yup, time to go home! ...
Posted: Aug 06 2009, 02:28 PM by cnackers | with no comments
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Windows 7 – Enable Quick Launch Toolbar
By default, the Quick Launch toolbar is disabled in Windows 7.  Here is how you enable it.   First we need to right-click on the taskbar and...
SMS Web Reports – Using a list to run a report or defining more than one variables for the web report prompt
I was recently working on trying to find a way to return the computer names for a given set of user names.  This is pretty easy to do from query analyzer...
Windows 7 New Keyboard Shortcuts
Linked from: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd451012.aspx   Tip: Work Faster with New Hotkey Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows 7 beta 1 Windows...
Posted: Jul 14 2009, 08:13 AM by cnackers | with no comments
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