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Defrag Your Hard Drive

How often do you defrag your hard drives? Do you think it is often enough? Defragging your drives can make a substantial difference in performance, seek times as well as the health of your drive can be improved if you defrag your drives on a regular basis. Keep in mind that hard drives are mechanical...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 01-01-2008
Filed under: SMS 2003, Tools, Hack, ConfigMgr, Cool Tools
Top Ten Events in Systems Management During 2007

First of all, Happy New Year, and may everyone find that in 2008 that your glass is more than half full, you and your loved ones are all very healthy and overly happy, that your careers are very prosperous, and that you gain all that you desire and more. As we welcome another year and reflect on the...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 12-31-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, et. all, System Center, Vista, News, TechNet, Microsoft, myITforum, SCOM, MMS 2007, Blog, OSD, SoftGrid, ConfigMgr
Systems Management Support WebCasts...And ConfigMgr Too

Merry Christmas... This is a whole list of Systems Management WebCasts that go back as far as 2000 with some SMS 2.0 stuff, here is some newer SMS 2003 WebCasts, and here is a search string for ConfigMgr WebCasts, I couldn't find a page that just listed all of them. Past Support WebCasts Support...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 12-19-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, System Center, TechNet, Webcast, SoftGrid, SUP, ConfigMgr
How To Upgrade SMS 2003 to ConfigMgr

Back at the end of September I was preparing my home lab for ConfigMgr testing. Since then I have been trying to get back to this article to proof it and tidy it up for publishing. After a number of requests and a light amount of work after 15 hour day today I am sitting in my hotel room, eating mediocre...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 12-17-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, Tools, ConfigMgr, Configuration Manager
Tired Of Your Job? How about $105-120k for an SMS 2003 to SCCM Job?

If you are interested send me a copy of your resume and I will forward it on to the recruiter, the requirements are listed below. This is with a federal agency located on the east coast. Skill set and experience: Experience with managing SMS in a multi-site environment including the ability to troubleshoot...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 10-17-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, ConfigMgr, SCCM, Jobs
Why Patch Tuesday Turns Into Patch Thursday or Friday or Monday

I used to hate the second Tuesday of every month. I honestly liked it better when patches were released as they were ready. What happens with the scheduled updates is that everyone knows that it is coming and that means that everyone expects their SMS Engineers to have the patches deployed that night...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 10-09-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, et. all, Security, KB Articles, Rants, Packaging, Patching, Reports, SCCM 2007, Funny, SUP, ConfigMgr, Configuration Manager, SCCM
SoftGrid SMS Connector Discontinued

The SoftGrid connector will be deprecated in the near future and replaced with Windows Installer Application Virtualization Extension or WIAV. The reasons they are moving away from the SMS Connector is due to future plans and interoperability with old and new products. What is it? Yes, you in the back...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 09-12-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, SMS Tools, Packaging, News, SCCM 2007, SaaS, SoftGrid, Application Virtualization, ConfigMgr
WAIK for Vista SP1 and Server 2008 and XP SP3 Dates

Hopefully you have heard by now that Vista SP1 and Server 2008 went RTM on Monday . But can you use these with OSD or MD? Well of course you can with the new version of WAIK. Also it is being reported that Vista SP1 goes live on Feb 18th or 19th and Windows XP SP3 goes live on March 23rd or 24th. Download...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 02-06-2008
Filed under: SMS 2003, Vista, News, OSD, WAIK, Windows PE, BDD, OSD Plus Pack, ConfigMgr, Server 2008, Microsoft Deployment, Downloads, PXELite
Nomad Enterprise Webcast - March 5

It is not often I blog about 1E, I think it has only happened once before actually. Even before I got an offer from them they told me they didn't want me to blog about them or their products because they didn't want my blog to turn into PR for 1E. And over the last year I have not talked about...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 02-27-2008
Filed under: SMS 2003, SMS Tools, Packaging, OSD, Webcast, SMSNomad Branch, ConfigMgr, SCCM, 1E
Attending MMS 2008? Yes I Am - We Are

I have gotten a ton of emails asking me if I am going to be at MMS this year and when and up until now I have held off because I was waiting for some things to finalize. But today 1E sent out an email to customer letting them know the booth number, and when Sumir, one of the founders of 1E, was going...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 03-27-2008
Filed under: SMS 2003, et. all, myITforum, Blog, OSD, MMS 2008, NightWatchman, OSD Plus Pack, ConfigMgr, SCCM, 1E

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