Slightly off from my usual topics but recently I’ve been working more with Orchestrator and although what I am about to tell you is not unknown to people I didn’t find it easy to get the answers from the web so I though I should share. I got a lot of help on this…
I was working with Orchestrator recently and needed to implement some PowerShell to remotely manage Microsoft Exchange 2010 so I suppose I have 2 tips on one for you here. If you are trying to use the Exchange Admin Integration Pack you should be aware that this only supports basic authentication to your Exchange environment.…
Today’s world is ever moving and ever evolving. Week by week there’s new software, new devices and people naturally want to keep up to date with the latest and greatest. Traditionally, trying to keep your corporate IT in line with this requires an army of staff and deep pockets. The days of a standard issue…
How much do you think your end users know about what is going on behind the scenes in your IT department? Are they even aware of some of the systems that keep your organisation ticking over and enabling them to perform their duties effectively? I suspect the answer to those questions are probably something like…
Training – “The action of teaching a person or animal a particular skill or type of behaviour” To put this into the context of IT, I think most organisations can disregard the animal training, although I have known a few businesses with office pets but we’ll assume they don’t use a Surface Pro. So back…
As an IT consultant I travel all over the UK wherever the work takes me. This means working when, how and where you can. Trains, planes and automobiles is the old adage and I can honestly say I’ve worked in or on each as well as the obligatory hotels, pubs, restaurants, coffee shops, car showrooms…
So it was announced late last week that the R2 wave Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 products is to be RTM on October 18th 2013. In parallel to these releases Microsoft is also going live with the long awaited Windows 8.1. This is surely the biggest date in Microsoft’s calendar this year, the…
I’ve been using powershell with Configuration Manager recently and I’ve been looking at security roles. If you’re looking to create your own security roles with powershell and you don’t already have a template, you’ll first need to copy one of the existing roles to get started. To do this you need to know the role…
As part of my work with the UK Windows Management User Group I recently carried out a few interviews with 3 well known Microsoft Enterprise Client Management Most Valuable Professionals whilst at TechEd Europe in Madrid. I interviewed: Niall Brady – Most famous for his guides on the http://www.windows-noob.com website Kent Agerlund – Configuration Manager…
I got bitten by this one for the second time today until I realised I’d seen it before. The symptoms are a failure to complete the installation of the Data Warehouse Configuration step during a System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 installation which causes a roll back of the whole install like so: The setup.log…
More than patches 