After a couple selections not being able to get approval for a trip to New Orleans in a couple weeks, we finally identified the winners of the free TechEd 2013 passes sponsored by Adaptiva. Congratulations to Henry MacAuley and John Rea! Adaptiva has a post up showing the winners and telling a bit more about what you can expect from...
ENGL releases the Wireless Manager 4.0 for ConfigMgr 2007/2012 (SP1)
ENGL is well known of the ENGL DriverManager (see blogs 01, 02 and 03) that helps ConfigMgr Admins to manage their drivers, but ENGL is also known of the Wireless Manager. Today they have released a new version (4.0) of the ENGL Wireless Manager that allows you to manage the wireless settings of your devices “from the Task Sequence” during...
1E Support Portal update – Phase one almost complete
Here at 1E, we’re always looking at new ways to make things more efficient. Whether it’s getting large packages across slow Wide-Area-Network (WAN) links without affecting your end users, cutting your carbon and electricity consumption of the PCs within your … Continue reading →
Scripting Service Account Changes
I recently had a situation where I needed to script the creation of a Windows service and specify a domain user/password to run the service. The main struggle was getting the service to grant the user “Log On As Service” rights, which wasn’t being automatically completed with the SC.exe tool. To accomplish this feat, the […]
System Center 2012 Integration Map Updated for SP1
Microsoft has updated the integration map for System Center 2012 to include the SP1 components. You can download the doc as part of the Technical Documentation Download for Technical Scenarios for System Center 2012 SP1. The download is available from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36429 The map comes in two doc types, MS Word and Adobe Reader (PDF). Here’s the example of what...
How to Determine the List of Strategic Software Vendors
By Natalie Overstreet Lias In a workshop recently, I was asked a question I’d never considered in detail before. We were discussing a phased approach to Software License Optimization based on the software asset management (SAM) Maturity Model and “crawl, walk, run” to achieve success over the term of a SAM project. With that in mind, I’d suggested a focus on the organization’s top ten vendors. The question was, “what do you mean by top ten?” It seems simple. Certainly, any software asset manager can typically identify, without any doubt, the four or five software publishers most critical to the…
Remote Desktop Connection Manager
By Garth Jones A few weeks back I upgraded my laptop to Windows 8. As many of you may know I have a lot of Virtual Machines (VM) which are mostly System Center Configuration Manager VMs. These VMs are hosted within the Enhansoft private cloud. The physical hosts are a range from Windows 2003 (Virtual Server) to Windows 2012. One...
Understanding Costs to Manage Windows 8 Devices with Intune
Side-loading keys (100 pack for $2500?) are different from the mobile device cert ($299/yr) and the Dev Center account ($99/yr) – and they are all unique to each tenant. Side-loading keys are way to bypass publishing apps through the public Windows Store and deploy apps to the Windows devices Mobile device certs are used to […]
Robert Wood: Ryan, you are saying the ping uses the FQDN?, because the only way it ...
Ryan Ephgrave: Are you talking about the WOL tool? I only check for the IP when I hav...
Robert Wood: Hi we have right click tools installed with SCCM 2012, I have noticed...
Garth Jones: Wow that is cool thanks!!...
Garth Jones: Wow that is cool thanks!!...