Microsoft Windows Custom Support Agreement Patches
One of my customers has now had two occasions where they deemed it necessary to purchase a Custom Support Agreement…
Author: Chad (page 8)
SCCM 2012 console subfolder searching
A frustration I’ve had in using SCCM 2012 was that when an object (collection, software update, package, application, etc.) is…
SQL Reports Subscription Ownership
We have a number SCCM Reporting Services subscriptions for our automated reporting. Yesterday I had a former team member’s ID…
SCCM 2012 User Device Affinity and Windows XP
Referencing the Microsoft TechNet article titled How to Manage User Device Affinity in Configuration Manager @ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg699365.aspx How to configure…
Notepad++ and syntax highlighting for non-default file extensions
Thanks to this article (http://www.mattblodgett.com/2007/11/notepad-tip-syntax-highlighting-for.html) for helping me fix an annoyance with Notepad++. I often use Notepad++ as a lightweight…
SQL 2012, BIDS, and SSDT
With SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence Development Studio is replaced with SQL Server Data Tools. BIDS = Business Intelligence Development…
Case Sensitive comparison in SQL
The default collation that Microsoft SQL uses (and requried collation for SCCM) is case-insensitive. Here are some tips for performing…
SCCM 2012 SP1 refresh / KB2801987
The original ISO for Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 contained a nasty little bug that prevented the ConfigMgr…