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With the start of a new year, it is that time again to support the System Center Community, with that in mind I have made my yearly donation of $250 USD to MyITForum (MIF). http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/aboutus/donations/   MIF is truly a community that helps each other both professionally and personally. But it cost thousands ...

With the start of a new year, it is that time again to support the System Management Community, with that in mind I have made my yearly donation of $250 USD to MyITForum (MIF). Have you made a donation to your community yet? http://www.myitforum.com/donations/donate.asp

If you manage drivers in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, you know it can get unwieldy to manage all the drivers in one big folder. I had done it that way for quite a while as I only had 3 or 4 builds of computers that I managed from MDT. These days though I manage about 10 [...]

Information on how to manage drivers from multiple vendors in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010.

I have decided that the forums on www.SMSUG.ca are not being used and due to some SPAMMER populating the membership list, I have closed them down. This is a good thing as it means I will arrange for the site to be convert to a blog only site. With the new site will come a new look a feel. (wait for it)   If you are looking ...

Now that I have your attention, every SMS / ConfigMgr administrator needs to know SQL in order to support SMS/ ConfigMgr. There are no “Ifs” “ands” or “buts” about it, without SQL, ConfigMgr / SMS could not run. You could not write reports or use SSRS. Neither MDT nor WSUS work without it either.  So without SQL there is no ConfigMgr / SMS ...

This event was incredibly popular last time and many could not make it either because the registration filled up or the storm so Pierre Roman has offered to run the event one more time! Topic: Deployment Deep Dive on Windows 7 Community Tour-Ottawa Take 2 Description: Are you running Windows XP?  Are you feeling the pressure of creating a ...

Information on customizing the bootstrap.ini file in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 to handle multiple deployment shares.

One of the neat things you can do with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 is you can customize it to show or hide screens when running through the deployment wizard. Lets have a look at my customsettings.ini file. This file is on my memory stick and installs my Patron computer builds. What I do is block all [...]

With the start of a new year, it is that time again to support the System Management Community, with that in mind I have made my yearly donation of $250 USD to MyITForum (MIF). Why do I do it? Well as a past User Group leader for www.OWSUG.ca, I know how much it cost to host a small user group community. OWSUG is small in comparison to MIF! Our ...