The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer

Wanted! IT Administrators with Windows Server experience (Puget Sound Only) Microsoft User Research is conducting a study focusing on the next version of Windows Server between August 22 and August 28, 2008

aclendenen — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:07:38 -0500

This is a great opportunity for IT administrators who have experience with Windows Server to provide feedback and help improve the next version. You do not need to prepare anything for this. We want to...(read more)

Oakley Sunglasses Are Overpriced!

aclendenen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:44:29 -0500

I have been working with JD, Brian, and Nelson this week in Minneapolis. At lunch today Brian and were talking about blogging and he had a good suggestion, I should change the title of my blog to...(read more)

Sysinternals Tools Can Now Run From The Web

aclendenen — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:04:34 -0500

While they also updated several of their tools like Process Explorer, Handle, ZoomIt and SigCheck, the much more interesting news is that you don't have to download the tools any longer and put them...(read more)

Get FREE One Year Subscription of CA Anti-Virus - Tweaking with Vishal

aclendenen — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:27:44 -0500

In case you missed out the free AVG offer here is another free anti-virus product. Once you create a free account on the CA site they will send you link to download it. There words regarding the account...(read more)

Using Maintenance Windows While Patching

aclendenen — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:22:16 -0500

I got a really good question today on maintenance windows and patching and how they can or cannot work together. Specifically if you had a maintenance window defined, but told the patches to install ignoring...(read more)

ConfigMgr SP1 Goes RTM

aclendenen — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:38:05 -0500

Update : Download link More Details . Overview Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 now offers full support for management with Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008, integrates customer feedback, feature...(read more)

ConfigMgr SP1 Goes RTM

aclendenen — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:41:39 -0500

Just made public today, it will take a day or so to get the bits available for download. Regards, Anthony Anthony Clendenen | Solutions Engineer | 1E Microsoft MVP System Center Configuration Manager http...(read more)

SMS Admin Job in Seattle

aclendenen — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:32:27 -0500

My client is seeking an SMS Administrator to join their operations team in Seattle. The ideal candidate must be passionate and driven about SMS 2003/SCCM 2007, but also enjoys interfacing with customers...(read more)

MMS 2008 - Sunday - Registration Swag

aclendenen — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:43:00 -0500

Finally got here after quite a long drive. We are staying at the Venetian and it is quite nice. There are quite a few people here already. When you register you get a backpack this year. It is blue, dark...(read more)

How Update Enforcement Works in NAP

aclendenen — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:36:38 -0500

There is a great article on the NAP team's blog on just how update enforcement works in NAP. "The easiest way to discuss update enforcement is to step through each part of the “Security Update...(read more)

XP SP3 Goes RTM

aclendenen — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:42:21 -0500

Windows XP SP3 went RTM today. It will be available to the public on April 29th. For ConfigMgr the biggest piece of this is that now you can use NAP on your XP clients as well. There is also a rumored...(read more)

System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Eval Available

aclendenen — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:51:53 -0500

This is not a part of ConfigMgr, this this a separate management tool that does a ton more than what you can do with mobile devices in ConfigMgr. You can get a 120 day eval of Mobile Device Manager (MDM...(read more)

Turning Your Wii Into a Streaming Media Center

aclendenen — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:09:56 -0500

After you win the Wii at the 1E booth (311) at MMS and you have made Pro on all the sports, have made all your family members and friends into Wii peeps, the next logical step is to stream all your music...(read more)

More MMS Goodness

aclendenen — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:42:58 -0500

This is from the 1E site, but down towards the bottom you can see the schedule for demos at the 1E stand. I will be presenting at least a couple times. Brian Tucker and Neil Kimberly will also be presenting...(read more)

Hibernation Hotfix for Windows XP and Vista and Insomnia Madness

aclendenen — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:14:36 -0500

I have read of reports where systems will not resume from hibernation but have not seen it replicated myself. Well if you have seen this problem in your environment this patch , released on April 7th by...(read more)

Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

aclendenen — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:02:08 -0500

I have an advantage, my son is in seventh grade and my daughter is finishing second, so all those geography questions, and factoring, I have done them recently. But the real question is are you smarter...(read more)

New Tool for DCM

aclendenen — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:33:03 -0500

This tool coverts Security Content Automation Protocol files into DCM packs. It is in public beta and you can get it here . Overview The SCAP Conversion Tool for DCM can convert any SCAP stream files into...(read more)

OneNote PowerToys

aclendenen — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:41:36 -0500

If you don't know I am a HUGE OneNote fan and have converted countless people from using Notepad, Notepad2, Word, paper, you name it to using OneNote since it first came out in Office 2003. (If you...(read more)

Auto Site Assignment and Multiple IP's

aclendenen — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:26:43 -0500

Carol posted this over the the TechNet blogs site a couple of hours ago. I commented that I didn't think it was a huge change because the odds are pretty low that this would really happen in today...(read more)

Attending MMS 2008? Yes I Am - We Are

aclendenen — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:39:00 -0500

I have gotten a ton of emails asking me if I am going to be at MMS this year and when and up until now I have held off because I was waiting for some things to finalize. But today 1E sent out an email...(read more)

The Deployment Guys : ConfigMgr 2007 and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit - Video Walkthrough

aclendenen — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:09:55 -0500

ConfigMgr 2007 and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit - Video Walkthrough Are you struggling with setting up ConfigMgr 2007 Operating System Deployment and integrating MDT? - download and view the video walkthrough...(read more)

ConfigMgr SDK (final) Released

aclendenen — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:44:42 -0500

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...(read more)

New FolderShare

aclendenen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:39:52 -0500

FolderShare has gotten a face lift, new client, and has moved to the Windows Live platform. If you are not familiar with FolderShare Microsoft bought them a couple years ago and the concept is that you...(read more)

How-To: Sequencing Office 2007 with SoftGrid

aclendenen — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:10:59 -0600

I wish Microsoft would standardize on either SoftGrid or Microsoft Application Virtualization. Here is a KB on sequencing Office 2007. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;939796 INTRODUCTION...(read more)

Nomad Enterprise Webcast - March 5

aclendenen — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:41:32 -0600

It is not often I blog about 1E, I think it has only happened once before actually. Even before I got an offer from them they told me they didn't want me to blog about them or their products because...(read more)

OpsMgr 2007 Authoring Guide Released

aclendenen — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:18:20 -0600

In case you missed the news about SP1 being released here is the download location for it. But as several people I know have experienced trouble with authoring reports and MP's for the 07 version Microsoft...(read more)

Repurpose That Old Laptop

aclendenen — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:08:27 -0600

Most IT related folks have an old laptop laying around that is too slow for what they need to do or they get a brand new one every six months. I know I have one that the hard drive has bad sectors on and...(read more)

New ConfigMgr DCM Packs

aclendenen — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:40:45 -0600

For SQL 2000, OpsMgr, and SharePoint. http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/archive/2008/02/21/configmgr-2007-new-configuration-packs-available.aspx Microsoft SQL Server 2000 MSIT Intermediate Configuration...(read more)

SkyDrive Now Has 5 GB of Storage

aclendenen — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:49:03 -0600

SkyDrive is part of Live and is a free service that allows you to put files online and share them with others or keep them private but have access to them from anywhere you have a Internet connection....(read more)

WorldWide Telescope Coming to Your Desktop

aclendenen — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:39:32 -0600

This is rather interesting. Apparently Microsoft is going to release Google Earth backwards on Feb 27th. Meaning that instead of zooming and panning in on Earth you will be able to do the same with cosmos...(read more)