I’d been looking at an issue where SCCM clients were constantly waiting for content from a local DP even though I had confirmed the content was present and accounted for on the local DP disk (my DP are running Windows Server 2008 R2 which is IIS 7.5). I checked the IIS logs on the local [...]

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Fresh from my recent trip to TechEd, I learnt about a way to remotely connect to a WinPE session using a new Microsoft tool called Dart. For more info on this tool, see here – http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Blog/tabid/62/EntryId/36/Software-Assurance-Pays-Off-Remote-Connection-to-WinPE-during-MDT-SCCM-deployments.aspx . This prompted me to think what organisations without Microsoft software assurance (MDOP) can use for remote connection to [...]

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I came across a great tool called Ping Them, great for pinging multiple hosts. See http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/doli/archive/2011/08/17/free-tool-ping-them.aspx for more details. This is similar to a Powershell script of mine over here – http://blog.danovich.com.au/2009/06/10/nifty-powershell-script-to-ping-multiple-servers/ – but this new tool adds a great GUI and some additional functionality.    

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