February 2007 - Posts
SCCM 2007 How To - Preparing For Setup
As the public Beta 2 of SCCM has been on the Microsoft Connect web site for about a week now it is time to start introducing it. Last week I made my first post on what's new in SCCM, and I briefly discussed some of the details of the new patching process. This article will focus strictly on the preparation of the installation of SCCM, it will be followed with another article on the setup process, and...
SCCM 2007 What's New? Day 1 - Software Update Points
The Open Beta 2 of the next version of SMS went live yesterday. So what is new with SMS? For one thing Software Update Point is a new role, this is what handles the patching synchronization between your SMS servers, Microsoft, and companies that supply custom updates through Microsoft. This role is installed on a server that has WSUS 3.0 installed, the WSUS server can be a local or remote sever to...
New Version of SCCM 2007 Beta 2 Availabe on Connect
On Connect there appears to be a new version of SCCM 2007 it is labeled build 5578, and release date of yesterday. I haven't used SCCM in seveal months and don't recall the build number and haven't seen this confirmed anywhere yet. Main page here , and main Connect page here . As Rod points out , as we closer to MMS you can expect a flood of new SCCM and SCOM information and downloads. Regards, Anthony...
Chief Illiniwek Killed by Native Americans
I lived the first 16 years of my life in Illinois, my mother study math at the University of Illinois, I have been there several times for different events and grew up being a fan of their football and basketball team. As I sat in a restaurant tonight eating dinner I was reading the news on my phone and the top sports headline was that this was Chief Illiniwek's last performance. As I read the article...
New CTP Release of Longhorn
If you are a techBeta tester you can get it from Connect now, MSDN and TechNet subscribers in the next couple of days. I didn't see any mention of multicasting for WDS being included in this build so I will continue to wait. Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:49 AM WindowsServer February 2007 CTP of Windows Server "Longhorn" Released As a number of sites and blogs have reported, last weekend we posted...
Six Newish Deployment Tools
Most of these tools I have posted about previously, but this one puts them all together nice and neet. Source Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of six new deployment tools that will help expedite businesses’ migration to Windows Vista™. The recently released tools are the Microsoft ® Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007, the Microsoft Application Compatibility...
DST Updates and Tools Webcast Schedule
Microsoft DST team members will walk through how to utilize the Windows, Exchange and Outlook updates and tools to help your business prepare for the transition to daylight saving time. A live question and answer session will be available during and after the presentation. This session is offered live on multiple dates, each beginning at 3:00pm Eastern Time/12:00pm Pacific Time: Tuesday, February 20...
They Call This a Security Issue?
And I quote.. Link Netanel Ben-Shushan from Israel writes: We've been talked about Microsoft's new tool for remote installation named Windows Deployment Services (or WDS), and Alex told me today that there's an important security issue in WDS. The issue is: there's a full access to the command line (CMD) and full access to the local hard disk (in 3 only minutes!), and that's without any special authentication...
How I Made The myITforum.com Live Toolbar Button
If you have not looked at the Windows Live Toolbar I would suggest it for a couple reasons, first if you are still using IE6 it gives you tabbed browsing. The second is you can search the myITforum site directly from the search field in the toolbar with this button! To create the toolbar buttons you can go one of two routes. The first is to design it through their website, this is pretty straight forward...
Technical Chat on ITMU v3 on Valentines Day
What: SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates Rev3 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/chats/default.mspx This chat will cover the topic of the Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates (ITMU) Revisions 3. The SMS 2003 ITMU Revision 3 was originally released on November 2, 2006 and provides support for a new offline catalog format that is provided...
Inject PowerShell in to your offline Vista image
Below Michael Greene describes how to inject PowerShell using the new WAIK tools. Great work Michael! Off Campus : Inject PowerShell in to your offline Vista image The Windows Automated Installation Kit includes pkgmgr.exe to inject packages and drivers to offline images. "Packages" loosely means the updates that Microsoft releases, usually through Windows Update. I believe there are partner initiatives...
WSUS 3.0 ACT 5.0 and PSexec
Today the release candidates of WSUS 3.0 and ACT 5.0 went live. WSUS 3.0 incorporates a new MMC facelift along with new features including better reporting and filtering. It also promised greater performance and reliability along with better remote office deployment options and more content from Microsoft Update. You still have to go to connect to download WSUS 3.0 The Application Compatibility Toolkit...
Microsoft Implements Multicast to Imaging - Finally!
If you have used multicast to image computers in the past you know it can be much faster than unicast, for obvious reasons. This is also one of the biggest complaints I hear about using RIS, or its replacement WDS. Well it looks like WDS is going to get multicast, and even a better multicast than what is available today. Read Keith's post below to get more details. Multicast imaging support coming...
TechNet Radio - Group Policy: Windows Vista, Longhorn Server, ADMX and the Central Store
Channel Nine "In this episode, Blain Barton sits down with Kevin Sullivan, a Lead Program Manager, and Jason Leznek, Senior Product Manager for Windows Vista to discuss the Group Policy evolution in Windows Vista. Kevin and Jason will cover the details on Windows Vista and Longhorn Server Group Policy Basics, ADM vs. ADMX, ADML and discussing the central store. Plus Michael Murphy brings you another...
Browser Plugin Highlights Malware
The company Finjan has announced a browser plugin for Internet Explorer and Firefox that will detect and alert the user to malware infested links, ads, and search results with their new tool titled SecureBrowsing. It works by scanning the pages code in real time and then highlighting potentially malicious links in red, and clean ones in green. The scanning is built on their behavior based technology...
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