By John Emmitt
This CNN article covers the story about Steve Wilhite, the creator of the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), receiving the Webby Award on Tuesday. At the award ceremony, his five word acceptance […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection Manager for Mac is a standalone anti-virus application for OS X 10.6-10.8.  Although part of the System Center 2012 product line, it is not currently managed by any of the […]

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 […]

By Greg LaVigne
I have a few final perspectives to share related to Desktop
Transformation business case development.  
Previously, I discussed the merits of performing a detailed use case
analysis as well as […]

By Randy Littleson
There's a great article on the FinancialDirector site entitled "Don't let software licensing fall between the M&A cracks" that clearly illustrates how M&A is a major source of software […]

By Randy Littleson
Companies of all sizes have one eye on the clock ticking
down to the end of Windows XP support. 
Numbers vary on the percentage of corporations and desktops that have
been migrated to Windows 7 […]

By Laura
Noonan
In many companies, more than one third of total IT spend
goes toward software licenses, so it’s no wonder that IT executives are looking
for effective ways to optimize software license usage and […]

By Cary Roys
Continuing on in our Installer Cheat Sheet Series, this week's Cheat Sheet is the Installer Folders Cheat Sheet. 
Most packagers and setup developers have had that moment when they knew where a file […]

Make sure to vote for your favorite report in this month’s survey. The winner will then become June’s free report.

Will it be:

Computer SQL Details

OR

List of PCs by Disk Description?

VOTE […]

 
I was at a customer site recently and they were simulating a data centre failure as part of their Disaster Recovery plan. They replicate the Site server as a VM across to another data centre in real-time and […]

AdminStudio is a product from Flexera Software that can be a complete, end-to-end application management system. It includes products for application modification and deployment. It comes with Repackager, Tuner, […]

By Garth Jones

From time to time one of the questions we get is:

How can I determine what my SMS_provider path/name is?

This is important to know because if you do any System Center Configuration […]