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System Center 2012 Configuration Manager forums

ConfigMgr 2012 — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:27:31 GMT

The SC12CM MS Social forums are available now: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/systemcenter2012configurationmanager...(read more)

Alan Touring - Obits - Interesting reading

ConfigMgr 2012 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:55:00 GMT

Alan Turings obit qoutations ... Makes for interesting reading http://synthesist.net/music/2012/04/obituary-quotations/...(read more)

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager - RTM

ConfigMgr 2012 — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:39:00 GMT

It's been RTM for a while, but MMS needed to happen before I could call it out. So ... System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is now RTM !!! And yep, that is how it is called now, SC2012CM and not ConfigMgr 2012 :-<> Check out the product...(read more)

Sinclair Spectrum turns 30

ConfigMgr 2012 — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:26:00 GMT

I had a few of these, home of 8 bit games ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666 ... it introduced colour "high resolution" graphics and sound. Good grief! If Sinclair hadn't of blasted the Acorn BBC out of the water, can you...(read more)

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 - RTM!

ConfigMgr 2012 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:43:00 GMT

Yep, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 has RTM'd !!! Check it out here What's new: Some of the key changes in MDT 2012 are: Comprehensive tools and guidance to efficiently manage large-scale deployments of Windows 7 and Microsoft Office...(read more)

ConfigMgr 2012 articles from the CM PG

ConfigMgr 2012 — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:23:00 GMT

Jason Githens from the ConfigMgr product group knocked out a few articles for us on System Center Endpoint Protection and Software Updates Management: · Launching a Windows Defender Offline Scan with Configuration Manager 2012 OSD · Operating...(read more)

How Titanic influenced wireless communications

ConfigMgr 2012 — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:06:00 GMT

Excellent article from IEEE on how the tragic loss of the Titanic led to a revolution in ship to ship and ship to shore wireless communications technologies (Marconi anyone?!) http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/the-titanics-role-in-radio-reform...(read more)

We are but memories - memories in other peoples heads

ConfigMgr 2012 — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:04:00 GMT

So worth the read ... http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/04/i_remember_you.html...(read more)

Think Microsoft is the evil doer? Read on ...

ConfigMgr 2012 — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:01:00 GMT

Thinking that Microsoft is the big bad boy of the IT Industry? Maybe this will change you mind slightly ... http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/microsoft-in-the-media-unfair-and-unbalanced-190570 Microsoft get real bad press for the slightest...(read more)

The Empire Strikes Back!

ConfigMgr 2012 — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:42:00 GMT

Apple admit they have a malware problem. That is a good first step from a company as immature in the security world as it is. Plenty of time for them to get tooled up like the others I guess. If you check their documentation and website you'll find...(read more)

Jack Tramiel - C64 - Game over - No more coins to insert

ConfigMgr 2012 — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:48:00 GMT

Game over for Jack Tramiel, another real legend leaves us, and one that deserves tribute for his selfless dedication to what was really his hobby. He was another industry changer. A true legend and a giant in terms of achievements. He left us with a very...(read more)

Windows 8 theme for Android

ConfigMgr 2012 — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:16:00 GMT

Windows 8 them on Android ... how cool is that! Takes a bit of tinkering to get it on but if you're wanting the tile look here it is: http://www.talkandroid.com/104848-check-out-this-awesome-metro-ui-theme-for-all-ics-and-honeycomb-tablets/ There's...(read more)

Mac attack

ConfigMgr 2012 — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:22:36 GMT

About 600,000 MAC’s have the Flashback Trojan installed. Big numbers http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/mac-flashback-600000-infected-apple-71604...(read more)

ConfigMgr 2007 Security permissions

ConfigMgr 2012 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:15:00 GMT

Following on from my ConfigMgr 2012 RBA permissions post , I thought I'd put up the ConfigMgr 2007 Security permissions even though it has been around a while :-) This data was formed via a script from John Nelson , output dumped into Excel and touched...(read more)

ConfigMgr 2012 RBA permissions

ConfigMgr 2012 — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:04:00 GMT

Handy list of permissions for each security object Download here (Excel) Secret Sauce: select sot.ObjectTypeName, oo.OperationName from dbo.RBAC_SecuredObjectTypes as sot inner join dbo.RBAC_ObjectOperations as oo on sot.ObjectTypeID = oo.ObjectTypeID...(read more)