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Install Internet Information Services (IIS) on Windows 7
Published by David O'Brien on 05/19/2012 | 0 Comments | 96 Views

Hi everybody,

I’m currently building my new demo environment for all the cool products I work with every day.

I’m also working on my session for E2EVC in Vienna next week (http://www.e2evc.com) where I’ll be having a session on Citrix AppDNA 6.

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Create Machine variables in Configuration Manager 2012
Published by David O'Brien on 05/08/2012 | 0 Comments | 342 Views

I scripted quite a lot these last few days/weeks and needed to use, as a good scripter like me would (*g*), lots of variables.

Variables in Configuration Manager can come real handy when executing Task Sequences.

You can set variables on collections and machines.

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Release of my Configuration Manager Admin GUI
Published by David O'Brien on 04/23/2012 | 0 Comments | 649 Views

It’s done! I finally got my script to a point where I would like to start sharing it with the whole community.

Go ahead and download the package at Download Link

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Citrix AppDNA 6–don’t miss out on these new features!
Published by David O'Brien on 04/02/2012 | 0 Comments | 822 Views

After Citrix’s acquisition of AppDNA in November 2011, the product formerly known as AppDNA AppTitude underwent some major rebranding and was just a few days ago reborn as Citrix AppDNA.

First impressions

The first impression is: “fancy

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Admin GUI for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012
Published by David O'Brien on 03/29/2012 | 2 Comments | 1,201 Views

I just finished a customer project where I implemented Configuration Manager 2012 RC2 and one requirement was that admins in remote locations should not get access to the Configuration Manager console.

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Microsoft Configuration Manager 2012 and Powershell–Create Deployments
Published by David O'Brien on 03/17/2012 | 0 Comments | 921 Views

Hi all,

here another quick script I wrote to deploy a specified Task Sequence to a given collection.

This was a real quick one, as I could find out all the required values through WMIExplorer (thanks to http://thepowershellguy.com/blogs/posh/archive/2007/03/22/powershell-wmi-explorer-part-1.aspx ), some self-made WMI queries and SMSProv.log (always look in here for help!!!)

So here’s my script:

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Microsoft Configuration Manager 2012 and Powershell–Part 2
Published by David O'Brien on 02/25/2012 | 0 Comments | 1,077 Views

Just wanted to keep you up-to-date regarding my task to automatically build a folder-collection structure in a customer’s Configuration Manager 2012 environment. (see also article http://www.sepago.de/e/david/2012/02/24/create-folders-in-microsoft-system-center-configuration-manager-with-powershell )

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Create Folders in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 via Powershell
Published by David O'Brien on 02/24/2012 | 0 Comments | 1,019 Views

Just a short article today…

I’m in the middle of a Configuration Manager implementation at a customer’s site and facing the problem of creating lots of folders and collections in those folders.

As you all might know Microsoft got rid of the “subcollections” and gave us collection folders to arrange our collections.

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Hydration Kit for SC Configuration Manager 2012 RC2 available
Published by David O'Brien on 01/24/2012 | 0 Comments | 1,304 Views

I already wrote something about the Hydration Kit for Beta 2, but now Johan Arwidmark just released his Hydration Kit for the System Center Configuration Manager 2012 RC2.

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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012–unattended installation of Sites
Published by David O'Brien on 01/17/2012 | 0 Comments | 1,317 Views

There’s a lot that changed in ConfigMgr2012 (e.g. Client Log Files ), but also inter-site communication. Most of it is now done via SQL replication and not only via inbox/outbox replication.

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