I recently had a requirement to be able to email SCCM reports on a schedule in an environment without SQL reporting services. I achieved this by creating a VB script to create an email that has the report ASP page as the body of the email. The script I used and scheduled as a Windows [...]

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I wanted an easy way to know if OS deployments were failing or succeeding. We’ve come up with a good way of sending an email outlining task sequence completion status. In SCCM, create a Status Filter rule by going to Site Database – Site Management – Primary Site – Site Settings – Status Filter Rules. [...]

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I recently made the choice to move my email hosting to Google Apps after having several bad experiences with my previous email hosting provider. I decided to use the ‘free’ Standard Edition which seemed to meet my requirements. It was a surprising easy transition which involved the following steps: Verify domain ownership – this required [...]

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For those of you who are unaware, optushome.com.au is a domain name belonging to Optus from when their broadband product was called Optus @ Home. There are many thousand of customers including myself who have been using Optus Cable broadband for over 8 years and therefore have a optushome.com.au email address. Then last night, without [...]

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