It appears an installation of ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 Cumulative Update 1 (KB2817245), if the pre-1/25/13 SP1 media is used and the KB2801987 hotfix applied, doesn’t necessarily play nice. Working on some scripts in […]

Using ConfigMgr to deploy the UE-V agent can present a nasty surprise if you try to specify the SettingsStoragePath using the %USERNAME% environment variable. Microsoft released the User Experience Virtualization […]

Raise your hand of you want to right-click > Save As… upwards of 200 MMS 2013 session and interview video files and then do the same for all the slide decks. Yeah…me neither. Last year the content was posted […]

Internet, internet…wherefore art thou internet? Yep…that pretty much says it all.  I’m actually not sure at this point what the source of the problem is, but having this level of issue for a second straight […]

It was a very full day today. Unfortunately, the big story to start off the day was the complete disappearance of hotel internet access. MMS Bible Study I personally always look forward to the MMS Bible Study led […]

It used to be that Sunday was the day that those with the flexibility of scheduling (and funding) to do so would arrive in Las Vegas ahead of the Microsoft Management Summit.  Visits to the casino would be made, a […]

The first time I encountered this particular ConfigMgr reporting error, I figured it was an anomaly.  It took a little digging, but I did find others who had encountered it and worked through it on the TechNet […]

One of the great things about PowerShell is the ease with which you can perform actions on remote machines, not only by acting upon the machine as a remote target but also by openning a remote PowerShell session […]

Internet Explorer 10 has finally been released for Windows 7 SP1, but it brings a few headaches with it.  Downloading the standalone installer works pretty well for individual installs, but as part of the install […]

I’m ready to get my geek on.  The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) conference is always a marathon. Between the time difference (three hours), the information overload from the sessions and labs, the late nights […]

During the normal course of peer review during an app implementation, we suddenly found ourselves without any ability to make changes.  The peer review engineer opened the app to check settings and was told he […]

There always seems to be a price to pay for jumping on the latest release quickly.  Many who rushed to download and install System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 got a nasty little surprise in […]

One of the benefits (or shortcomings, depending on who you ask) of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager is that it is a “pull-based” technology.  Communication between the client and server is initiated […]

I’ve been very pleased so far working with Windows 8 Enterprise as my primary OS…save for one rather significant issue: Every time I attempted to initiate a file download in Internet Explorer 10, it would crash. […]

If you haven’t yet delved into the world of PowerShell for ConfigMgr administration, now is a great time!  The beta release of ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 includes a PowerShell module with some 300 cmdlets (get a list of […]

As the details of Windows 8 features began emerging early this year, one item in particular immediately caught my attention: Client Hyper-V.  I’ve been a VMWare Workstation user for some eight years now and just […]