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Tuesday, February 23, 2010 9:53 PM

Microsoft.SMS.TSEnvironment

So COM is a huge topic that I can't even imagine scratching the surface of in a single post; MSDN and CodeProject are two great places to learn about...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010 9:54 PM

Client = No

At my current customer we are performing a clean, side-by-side upgrade from their current SMS 2003 infrastructure. We are using client push to install...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:26 PM

Nasty Bug in OSD App Tree 2.5

It has been brought to my attention that a nasty bug slipped by my rigorous QA process that pretty mush kills OSD App Tree 2.5. I will be sorting this...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 8:14 PM

Configuration Manager Service Pack 2

ConfigMgr SP2 is now available (and has been since Oct 22). Time to address the two commonly recurring questions I have seen in the forums and mailing...
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Monday, August 31, 2009 3:14 AM

Current Directory in ConfigMgr Programs

I run across a lot of questions in the forums and from customers about why their batch files are failing when run using a ConfigMgr program. There is an...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:34 PM

OSD Blogcast Series

Operating System Deployment (OSD) in Configuration Manager 2007 is the incontrovertible champion of deploying Windows. It simplifies, automates, and consolidates...
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Friday, August 14, 2009 8:08 PM

Roll-up Collections

I often make use of what I call “Roll-up Collections” in ConfigMgr. These are parent collections that contain sub-collections that specialize the intended...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 4:50 PM

Sysprep Ad Infinitum

I was at a customer this week doing a one-day, whirlwind tour of Operating System Deployment (OSD) in ConfigMgr. They were specifically interested in server...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:03 AM

Anonymous Feedback

Hmmm. I received the following feedback anonymously about OSDAppChooser: I just wanted to drop in a few suggestions for future enhancements to the OSD...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:56 PM

OSD and SAN Disks

Working with a customer recently, they had an issue using SAN attached disks during Operating System Deployment. They could successfully create and format...
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Friday, July 03, 2009 1:58 AM

HW Inventory and the Database

It is pretty well known how to add custom extensions to the Configuration Manager hardware inventory using sms_def.mof and configuration.mof. What isn...
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Monday, June 15, 2009 8:45 PM

ConfigMgr Log Spelunking

Anyone who’s dealt with ConfigMgr knows that the log files are invaluable for troubleshooting issues and day-to-day monitoring. One of ConfigMgr’s strengths...
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 3:13 AM

ConfigMgr Post SP1 Updates

The following is a list of significant post SP1 updates for ConfigMgr. Most of these updates are by request only; all you have to click the link at the...
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Friday, June 12, 2009 11:35 PM

Configuration.mof vs. SMS_DEF.mof

Hardware Inventory isn’t a huge topic, but there are a lot of details – far more than I could cover in a single post. The intent of this post is to cover...
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Saturday, May 30, 2009 2:40 AM

Operating System Deployment and 2003 R2 Follow-up

If you try the technique below on an install of Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 (sp2), it fails. I don’t remember the exact error, but it translates...
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