December 2010 - Posts

• Using a State Migration Point (SMP), Settings for Task Sequences on SCCM Protected Site Servers

  A State Migration Point (SMP), is a site system that SCCM uses for the migration of a user state from one computer to another. For instance, it has the ability to migrate a user profile from XP to Windows 7 and scenarios include migrating from the same... Posted Dec 22 2010, 06:56 AM by Lionel's configmgr blog Filed under: sccm, distribution points, procedure, usmt, smp, task sequences

• Increasing the number of rows returned by a SCCM Report Query

  Some people like big and massive queries that return thousands of rows. However, SCCM Report Viewer does not like handling more than 10,000 rows by default in a result set returned by a single query. I am in favour though of this default as it is good... Posted Dec 14 2010, 11:59 AM by Lionel's configmgr blog Filed under: SCCM Reporting, procedure, SMS Reporting Point

• Security Bulletins for December 2010 - and what was 2010's most talk about bulletin?

  Continuing with the trend for the entire year 2010, Microsoft has announced that it is slated to release 17 bulletins for the month of December. Another record? Maybe, then again we have seen this year that most of these patches released were reliable... Posted Dec 13 2010, 10:16 AM by Lionel's configmgr blog Filed under: Configmgr 2007, sccm, security bulletin, december 2010

• The Cloud that saved the Amazon.

  Unless you have been living in a cave, you should have heard about the global upheaval concerning WikiLeaks. The resulting backlash has actually rather ironically, for the first time put a critical cloud infrastructure to the test. Many ordinary folks... Posted Dec 10 2010, 06:48 PM by Lionel's configmgr blog Filed under: information, ec2, Amazon, cloud

• Support for Windows Storage Server 2008 R2/Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2

  Microsoft Configuration Manager support has annouced additional support for the above. You can read the source of the information here and these changes will be updated in Configmgr's Supported Configuration pages at a later date. http://blogs.technet... Posted Dec 09 2010, 03:07 AM by Lionel's configmgr blog Filed under: Configmgr 2007, sql server 2008 sp2, support, storage server 2008 r2

• Opalis

  Microsoft acquired the Canadian based Opalis Software in December 2009, a market leader that provides software for IT process automation. Opalis integrates with Microsoft's System Center and enables administrators access to a single end to end solution... Posted Dec 03 2010, 06:36 PM by Lionel's configmgr blog Filed under: Configmgr 2007, sccm, Cloud computing, information, system center, Opalis