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Bio: | | Dan Thomson is employed by Strategic Business Systems as an SMS Engineer and works in the District of Columbia. Dan is currently the project manager for a Centralized Patch Management project at his place of employment. He is also a freelance developer and writer.
Dan is very passionate about systems automation and can be found hanging around myITforum's Windows and Scripting forums. When not fooling around at the computer, Dan enjoys spending time with his family and friends, outdoor activities, and doing stuff around the home.
Dan can be contacted by sending an email to: dethomson@hotmail.com.
Dan was first introduced to computers years ago when he became a machinist in 1988. His first experience was with an Atari that was used to manually create and store the programs required to operate the CNC machinery. Dan graduated to a PC and gradually worked his way through learning various CAD and CAD/CAM programs.
Fooling around with computers became a hobby for Dan. After spending 10 years as a talented machinist, he decided it was time for a career change. He attended a couple MCSE 4.0 and A+ classes at a nearby community college, studied hard and earned his certifications.
The college he attended at the time was beginning a migration away from MAC's to PC's and was very under staffed. Dan saw this as an opportunity for an individual to get a foot in the door and volunteered some of his time to assist with the migration. Dan was soon offered a position at the college. He soon became an influential member of the college's IT Support Center and helped to support 900+ systems spread across 5 geographic locations.
After spending 6 years at the college, Dan was recruited by Aspiration Software.
Dan has experience in the following areas:- Installation and maintenance of Windows operating systems
- Installation and maintenance of various computer and printer hardware
- Active Directory
- Group Policies and System Policies
- Operating System imaging strategies
- Defining standards and strategies for operating system and software deployment
- End user training and support
- Anti-virus maintenance
- Utilization of various scripting technologies
- Installation, maintenance and enhancement of Microsoft SMS
Dan dabbled a bit with Linux and MAC, but decided to focus his talents on the Windows platform.
Dan also started up the fledgling Mid Atlantic Windows Management User Group. Don't forget to visit Dan's blog. |
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Be Careful What You Share: SMS & ConfigMgr Encrypted Data
10/2/2008 - Security
When seeking help with issues relating to SMS or Configuration Manager, be sure not to share information that has been encrypted as it may contain sensitive data such as user credentials.
MDT: Installing OS roles, role services, and features
9/16/2008 - Microsoft Deployment
There is a little bit of information that is not documented in MDT 2008 Update 1 that impacts the resulting deployment when using MDT to install and configure operating system roles, role services, and features for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
MDT 2008 Update 1 Released
8/1/2008 - Microsoft Deployment
An update to the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 has been released.
Scripting List solutions: Add machine names to a collection
9/21/2007 - Scripting
Is it possible to add machine names to a collection from a text file via vbscript?
Scripting List solutions: Please wait in a VB Script
9/19/2007 - Scripting
I'd like to display a window that pops up and says "Please wait ..." while the script is running and then disappears when the script finishes. I'm looking for something that does not require user interaction.
Sapphire X1950 Pro
9/11/2007 - Hardware and Gadgets
I've been living with poor video ever since I had a video card succumb to the heat over a year ago.
Adding favorites to Regedit
9/6/2007 - Windows
Going back to a recent post by a post from Joseph Hinkle that brought out the customizations that Richard Smith is making during build creation and image deployment, here is something else to possibly add.
A GUI commandline builder for 1E's NightWatchman product
2/14/2007 - Windows
I was doing some testing on 1E's NightWatchman product and found it difficult to remember all the command line options it accepts. So, I ended up playing around in Visual Studio for a while and created a GUI app that allows me to hunt and peck at the options using my mouse.
A fix for not being able to sign in to Windows Live Messenger
10/24/2006 - Web Technologies
I had not been able to login to Windows Live Messenger for a few days now and decided to do some digging around and see if I could find anything to help me get connected.
Is Windows XP Service Pack 1 supported or not?
10/16/2006 - Patch Management
I went to www.windowsupdate.microsoft.com today and noticed this graphic on the page. I know it has been there for a long time, but I would have thought it would be updated now that XP SP 2 is the only supported release of XP.
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