It’s a good day to not be assigned to a customer… Microsoft released Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9926! I took a moment to download all 4 ISO files (Professional and Enterprise, 32 and 64 bit), inventoried the ISOs to
Microsoft Windows distribution channels
If you’ve worked in an IT department for a mid-to-large company you may have run across Microsoft Volume Licensing. I think a tome could be written on the intricacies of the subject, but here I’m only going to touch on
BranchCache for Microsoft Windows Professional
If you ever looked into using BranchCache, you’re likely well aware that the Enterprise or Ultimate editions of Windows Workstation are required to get this peer-2-peer caching functionality. That’s a disappointment for many organizations who aren’t spending the extra money
Installing Android as a Hyper-V guest
< div class=”ExternalClassCCC4F98D00E841F2BF7BD261758309ED”> If you’re looking for a way to test an Android device, consider the Android-86 port which can be run as a VM. This makes a great test/demo platform for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager or Microsoft Intune.
SQL Reporting with custom pagination and Excel named worksheets
< div class=”ExternalClass16EB91745BFA419384C0E3307E72D388″> With some guidance from Microsoft TechNet, Edward at StackOverflow.com, and Adam at RedThree, I managed to enhance the Compliance 5 – Computers in a Collection report by separating each computer onto its own page. When exported to
Software Update Compliance for Each Computer in a Collection
This is a modification of the default report Compliance 5 – Specific Computer, but it combines the result for each computer in a collection. The report can get quite long, however, it is a much better than running the default
SCCM Inventory of IPAddress SkipAsSource
< div class=”ExternalClass56053B2187DC429B993BBB746BA0DCAD”> A customer of mine was looking for a way to verify that servers with multiple IP Addresses (mostly web severs) were configured to use a specific IP for all default communications. SkipAsSource is a Boolean flag which
Management Point Affinity (AllowedMPs) Compliance Setting in ConfigMgr 2012 R2 CU3
In Cumulative Update 3 for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2, Microsoft introduced Management Point Affinity and Justin Chalfant had a nice write-up on the new feature. One thing that was left undocumented was an acceptable way to set MP