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March 18, 2008
Microsoft released the ConfigMgr SDK yesterday. You can get the download here . It includes DCM Digest Authoring guide, DCM digest schema, a SUM gadget that gives you current status messages on patches you have deployed, samples on creating admin console extensions, OSD custom task sequences and more. Regards, Anthony Anthony Clendenen | Solutions Engineer | 1E http://configmgr.com © Anthony Clendenen Technorati Tags: ConfigMgr , SCCM , SDK , Gadget
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Filed under: Scripting, Tools, Microsoft, Gadgets, VB Script, Documentation, ConfigMgr, SCCM, Desired Configuration Management, Microsoft Deployment, Downloads
August 22, 2007
If you have never worked with Microsoft PSS, PFE, QFE, MCS, RRE, or any other arm of their professional support staff you may not be aware of the tools that these army of men and women come equipped with to resolve issues. These are often home grown, field developed, custom tools that these same folks have written to help customers and the support staff at Microsoft quickly resolve issues and the WMIDiag tool is a prime example of this. Often these tools are used only by the Microsoft staff and are...
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Filed under: SMS 2003, SMS Tools, Scripting, Tools, System Center, TechNet, Microsoft, WMI, VB Script
January 03, 2007
The next version of Virtual PC is available for download on the Connect site. I downloaded this last night and used it and right away I noticed it was much faster. I had been working with several VPC's all day in VPC 2004 and after uninstalling VPC 2004 and installing 2007 the speed difference was very noticeable. The drag and drop function of being able to move files from your host OS to the guest OS is still there as well. The interface looks the same. Regards. What's new in Virtual PC 2007 Release...
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Filed under: Tools, Microsoft, Virtual PC
October 24, 2006
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=93b4745c-a10b-44a9-9117-06fc4865b9f4&displaylang=en Brief Description Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2006 Service Pack 1 (SP1) enables you to protect more types of file servers, provides an interface for configuring your Microsoft Update selection, and includes updates previously released as individual hot fixes plus several bug fixes. Overview Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2006 Service...
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Filed under: Tools, Microsoft
October 20, 2006
Microsoft ASP .NET AJAX v1 Beta ASP.NET AJAX is a set of technologies to add AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) support to ASP.NET. It consists of a client-side script framework, server controls, and more. AD Forest Recovery – Best practices white paper. This paper is a best-practice recommendation for recovering an Active Directory® directory service forest, if forest-wide failure has rendered all domain controllers in the forest incapable of functioning normally. Optimizing client...
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Filed under: Tools, Vista, Microsoft
October 17, 2006
Today it was officially announced that Microsoft will combine the recently acquired tools from Softricity, Winternals, and Desktop Standard into a single package that you can purchase for ~$50 per client. What this package gets you is SoftGrid application virtualization, group policy management/enhancement tools from DesktopStandard, and the remote repair tools from Wintenals. For this price you could not get even the tools from DesktopStandard, the backend for the SoftGrid used to run about $15...
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Filed under: SMS 2003, Group Policy, Tools, Vista, News, Microsoft
September 23, 2006
Do you get those annoying End Now dialog boxes when you are rebooting? Do you see errors in event viewer about the registry not being unloaded? Well now there is a cleanup tool from Microsoft to help eliminate those issues. Original source: Overview The User Profile Hive Cleanup service helps to ensure user sessions are completely terminated when a user logs off. System processes and applications occasionally maintain connections to registry keys in the user profile after a user logs off. In those...
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Filed under: Tools, Microsoft
September 18, 2006
Original source: Introducing Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) The Windows Recovery Environment (aka Windows RE aka WinRE) team would use this blog to share information, tricks and tips about WinRE with support professionals and end-users of Windows. We would also like to use this blog to get feedback from the community. So what is WinRE? Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) is a recovery platform based on Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE). WinRE provides two main functionalities: 1...
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Filed under: Tools, Vista, Microsoft
September 11, 2006
To enroll in the beta go to connect . Original source: sniffer, Network Monitor, is coming back. Network Monitor 2.1 is included as optional component in every Windows installation but has a severe limitation: it cannot put the network interface in promiscous mode, preventing capture of all packets passing on the cable (to have a full version of Network Monitor 2.1 you have to buy Microsoft System Management Server (SMS)). Upcoming Network Monitor 3 will offer several new features and will finally...
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Filed under: Tools, Beta, News, Microsoft
September 11, 2006
This utility will tell sites that you are running IE6 instead of 7 to make sites that do not function with 7 work [better]. I have not started using IE7 yet, but I think I am the only IT person on the planet that hasn’t. I like IE6 with the live tool bar. Original source: Spyware Sucks : IE7: User Agent String Utility Tool V.2 . '> Listen to this article
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Filed under: Tools, Beta, Microsoft
September 06, 2006
Where do I sign up? I saw this at MMS but Kevin makes it a little more clear. Original source: Playing with SoftGrid... As you may or may not know, MSFT acquired a company named Softricity over the summer (www.softricity.com). The acquisition is now complete and we will be announcing the roadmap and integration of this killer technology in the coming months. I feel that this 'app vitalization stuff' is going to be VERY huge in the next few years at least... Anyway, so I have been playing around with...
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Filed under: SMS 2003, Tools, Microsoft, SCCM 2007
September 03, 2006
Very nice Ben! See below to discover how to mount a VHD by clicking it with Ben’s reg key. Original source: Double clicking on a VHD to mount it Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 2 includes 'vhdmount' - a tool to allow you to mount a virtual hard disk directly on your host operating system. While vhdmount is provided as a command line tool - a very small amount of work will allow you to mount VHDs by just double clicking on them. By creating a .reg file with the following contents: Windows Registry...
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Filed under: Tools, et. all, Microsoft
August 16, 2006
GroupBar allows you to arrange or group your taskbar titles into the arrangement that you like. One of the best things about this is there is no installation of this program so there is no chance it will replace some dll. This is from the Microsoft Research group and can be found here or downloaded here . Original source: GroupBar is lightweight desktop tool created by the VIBE group that offers enhanced window management capabilities in a Windows taskbar-like setting. The basic concept is that through...
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Filed under: Tools, Microsoft
August 08, 2006
The User Mode Process Dumper (userdump) dumps any running Win32 processes memory image (including system processes such as csrss.exe, winlogon.exe, services.exe, etc) on the fly, without attaching a debugger, or terminating target processes. Generated dump file can be analyzed or debugged by using the standard debugging tools. The userdump generates dump file by several triggers; Dump by specifying PID or process name from command line Dump automatically when process being monitored caused exceptions...
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Filed under: Tools, Microsoft
June 16, 2006
This reminds me of Feedster and I like it, when I plug in SMS 2003 here is what I get. Rejoice that the boffins at TechNet have released a new scoped TechNet search , that includes an RSS feed of your favorite search. How great is that? You scope your search to the products and technologies that are relevant to you, then save your search query as an RSS feed, so that future search results matching your query will automatically show up in the feed. TechNet calls this "Enhanced Search" and all I can...
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Filed under: Tools, News, TechNet, Microsoft
May 19, 2006
This document describes how Microsoft deployed Data Protection Manager to 130+ remote sites. It also includes comparitive data along with best practices. This is version 4 and was released today. When I was at MMS last month I spoke to one of the Microsoft reps regarding Data Protection Manager, I had already gotten a little news about this last summer from our emerging technologies briefing, but I wanted to know how much is would cost. See, I am the PM on our TCO project and one of the goals is...
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Filed under: Project Management, Tools, Microsoft
April 25, 2006
This session’s presenter was Rodney Jackson, this session is where they review common support issues and their solutions followed by a Q&A sessions where customers can ask support related questions. I will cover some of the tools he talked about since myITforum.com has most of the areas he discussed covered in the forums. (You can get these tools from your TAM or Microsoft Support) SMS Client Health Collections – If you have not seen or used this tool it will build collections based...
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Filed under: SMS 2003, Tools, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006