HP have finally released a tool to make it easier to obtain full driver packs for their hardware. In the past we have had to individually download each driver manually from the HP website, this was very painful and time consuming. Hopefully their new tool will eliminate a lot of this pain and time (Dell’s [...]

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A quick post on something that’s not overly technical. I was editing a SCCM task sequence and I wanted to run multiple commands on the task sequence ‘Run Command Line’ step without using a batch file.  I remember that Command Processor allows the & character to join commands together. I tested this out in the [...]

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Enterprise Architect vs Solutions Architect vs Infrastructure Architect vs Technical Architect. The term Architect is thrown around very easily within IT departments these days.  While it is already hard enough to explain to someone outside of IT what your job role involves, a lot of people within IT departments including senior management don’t understand the different type [...]

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There are a few newly published articles on Technet that give some nice details of the major changes in SCCM 2012: http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/03/08/the-biggest-changes-in-hierarchy-design-in-configuration-manager-2012.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/03/06/data-replication-in-system-center-2012-configuration-manager.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/02/22/options-for-managing-remote-offices-with-configuration-manager-2012.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/02/29/hierarchy-design-in-system-center-2012-configuration-manager.aspx  

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Just a quick post today to announce that I am now TOGAF 9 Certified. After studying on and off for the last year I knuckled down in the last few weeks and sat the double exam (OG0-093) today. For those that are unfamiliar with Enterprise Architecture (EA), TOGAF is a well recognised framework for EA [...]

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I had been distibuting packages to BDPs across a few SCCM enviornments and after monitoring report 136 I noticed that there were lots of packages still ‘Waiting to install package’ even after a few days . I checked the DataTransferService.log on the problem BDPs and noticed: DTS::AddTransportSecurityOptionsToBITSJob – Failed to QueryInterface for IBackgroundCopyJobHttpOptions. BITS 2.5+ [...]

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