You try to install a secondary site in Systems Management Server 2003, but the secondary site remains in the "Install Pending" state http://www.kbalertz.com/Feedback_915386.aspx

I just got off the phone with our business account rep from Sprint and he said that sprint is looking at June for the release of the Treo 700w.  I had initially heard March but I guess that's not true.....sure hate to wait that long.

Had some issues today and found this, thought I would share:

1. Insert the Windows Vista CD in the CD-ROM drive (or just mount the ISO image).

2. Power on the virtual machine to start installing Windows Vista.

3. If using a blank hard disk: When the Windows Vista installer menu appears, choose the first option, Install Now.

If installing over an existing guest operating system: Skip to step 9.

4. Press Shift-F10 to open a command prompt.

5. Start the disk partitioning utility.

diskpart

6. Enter the following commands to partition the hard disk:

select disk 0
create partition primary

7. When the partitioning process is complete, click the Reset button to reboot the virtual machine.

8. As the virtual machine begins to reboot, while the VMware logo appears on the screen, click inside the virtual machine window, then press Esc to get to the BIOS boot menu. Choose CD-ROM Drive as the boot device, then continue installing Windows Vista beta.

9. In certain Windows Vista builds, the installer chooses an incorrect default in the screen titled Choose your installation destination. It shows a partition with 0 MB free and makes that partition the default destination.

At that screen, you must change the choice to the disk (instead of the partition), then click Continue.

10. Follow the remaining installation steps as you would for a physical machine.

Working on a project at work to redeploy OS to all machines.  We are using SMS OSDFP along with ZTI to accomplish this. I was wondering if anyone was pulling roles directly out of the BDD database and if so have you run into any issues?

Rumor has it that Sprint will be offering a Razr like phone called the Blade. The phone is made by Samsung and should be availalbe in 4-6 weeks in the US.  I hope this rumor is true...

We are starting a project to remove all local admins from our computing environment. Anyone else doing this? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Attended EMC's forum (http://www.emc.com/forumseries/) on lifecycle management in Dallas on Monday.  If you get a chance to attend one of these, I highly recommend it.  The forum gave us a lot of great ideas without being too big of a sales pitch.

Microsoft has released a ZOTOB removal tool, to help those infected by the worm.

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=30020&category=main

Worlds 1st 3D display

Article on the newly discovered IE Zero-Day Flaw

Looks as if McAfee will be supplying a patch , for the recently discovered flaw in it's ePO common management agent., no later than August 19th.

Here is a good reason to keep your machines patched at all times

Clarification on MS statement about Antispyware product

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=29918&category=main

Anyone out there locking down all users? We are trying to evaulate doing this at my company. Most of are users are non-admins. However, our drafting department uses Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD products. I have yet to find a way to make these apps work without local admin privilege. Any ideas, please  drop me a comment.

I installed the beta of MS IE7 on my laptop today.  First thing I noticed was the links toolbar spacing.  Apparently, MS decided to space all the items in links the same distance. It looks weird plus not everything fits. In IE6 it was based on the length of the name of the link.  I am not very fond of this new change.  Other than that, I have no complaints. The browser works great.  I had a list of sites that I thought might have problems and they have opened without a hitch. The new look is easy to navigate and the tabs are wonderful.  MS has stepped up to the plate on this release.  Can't wait to see the finished product.