All things SMS, System Center Configuration Manager, Active Directory, Group Policy, Virtualization, Security, Gadgets, Technology, and the Daily Thoughts of an SMS Engineer named Anthony Clendenen.

The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer

Browse by Tags

ConfigMgr SDK (final) Released

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  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , , , , , , , ,

Troubleshooting WMI With WMIDiag

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...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , , , , , ,

ConfigMgr SDK BETA 2 Available For Download

July 31, 2007

You can download the BETA 2 version of ConfigMgr's SDK from the Connect site. Details of SDK are copied and pasted below. I got to sit down with several of the Tech Writers for ConfigMgr today at lunch and there was some very interesting conversations. The most important of which was probably that they have plans to release many more of the SuperFlows, I don't know if you have seen the one that is available publicly but they make the flowcharts look like hieroglyphics. The documentation online...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , , ,

Script To Preload SoftGrid Apps

June 20, 2007

SoftGrid Preload App's I saw this great piece of information on http://www.virtualapp.net/scripts.html and thought that this was a nice v1 script for loading application into cache. This script will check for and Preload only those SoftGrid applications currently not 100% in cache for the user. Summary Application pre-loading script that can be run on client machine in order to have all application packages for the user 100% cached. This script will run through the list of application available...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: ,

Getting Started in PowerShell

December 06, 2006

I have used VBScript quite a bit in the past and I am very familiar with it but this morning I was doing something in VBS and thought to myself I really need to start to learn PowerShell. So I did some information gathering and thought I would compile it and share my info. Below is a list of links including, downloads, books, guides, development tools, webcasts, blogs, and bookmarks. The PowerShell home page . Download PowerShell 1.0 Getting Started Guide . PowerShell FAQ . Webcasts • Brief Getting...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , ,