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After speaking to the other Level 5 Guide owners, they have all agreed to open their guides during the times I specified in my post yesterday . Our "Open House" day is to let you experience some of the content that we have available. I don't...
Tonight I added 3 new videos to the SCCM Level 5 Guide on Software Updates. I have one more to complete and that should be uploaded in the next few days. The videos show how simple and complex deploying updates can be in SCCM. There is a lot of information...
We want to get some fresh ideas from bloggers on The Blogcast Repository . I would like to make a challenge that we have 50 new bloggers by the end of July . Sharing your experience is a great vent and a place to call home where you can interact with...
Since going live on the upgraded website a few weeks ago, we now have email notification working again as of today. When you comment in the forums and blogs, you will now receive emails and know when people reply to your posts. I'm very sorry for...
As most of you know, we have a new section of the site called Level 5 on the website. The Level 5 section is a formal "how to" guide on various topics. Not all of our guides are ready to be published, but David Stein has done an excellent job...
The DNS change went into effect a day late, but we had some bugs to work out. We will continue to see some issues and I hope you email me if a video looks bad or sounds wrong. We have a lot of new features add ed to the site and if you are reading this...
As many of you know, we have been developing a new website to replace this one. Effective immediately, the website is in a read only mode so that we can make a backup of the SQL DB and copy all the files to the new server. We feel this entire transition...
Ok, we hashed it around and we came up with swag for MMS 2008 . We decided, based on long conversations with 2 key sponsors to make 400 shirts to be handed out at MMS 2008 in Las Vegas. This is a huge improvement from the 20 Polo shirts I handed out in...
I'm always wanting to learn new technology. I won't divulge the topic I needed to learn, but I spent several days reading Microsoft documents and working in my lab with questions still in my head and not getting it right. I looked at a few videos on The...
It's been a very busy year for me and my family as I'm sure it has for everyone else. I'm very pleased with the increase of information that is being shared on The Blogcast Repository . Many people are asking questions and more people are stepping up...
It's been about 2 years since we moved to Community Server 2.1 as the backbone of the website and had a lot of custom work done to the site to make it what it is today. If you have been following my blog, then you know that The Blogcast Repository has...
I want to request everyone reply who reads this post. I know that The Blogcast Repository is free and it kills the pay sites who charge for the same or lesser content. How would you rate the videos on The Blogcast Repository in competition with a pay...
I can't really believe that it's been 2 years since we started this whole mess, love, passion, head ache, and every day bliss! The Blogcast Repository has been a fun and interesting part of my life and almost an obsession on some levels. We have gone...
I have had the opportunity to upgrade and perform a clean install of the new ITMU . To be honest, there is nothing to it. The collections, packages, and advertisements are all setup the same despite the method you install the ITMU. There is a minor addition...
The Microsoft NAP team had a private webcast for MVPs last week and thay have made a 1 hour and 40 minute video available to the public as of yesterday. If you are looking for a GREAT demo of NAP, you need to spend the time to watch the video. NAP is...
For those of you who patch your organizations computers every month, you might be surprised to know that your systems may not be patched after all. We tend to judge the deployment based on the SMS report that shows the percentage of success (or failure...
For those of you who were waiting.. (Tim and others) I'm verry sorry for being late on the delivery of the Blogcast as scheduled for 10:00PM tonight. The Blogcast shows some of the new features in V4 and I don't know of any other site that has V4 videos...
For those of you who want to be the first to see SMS V4, here's your chance. I have just completed the video and I will update it online at 10:00 PM EST tonight. The video is roughly 25 minutes and fails to come close to the new features available. This...
I thought this was extremely interesting. I was onsite with a company that uses Patchlink as the primary tool for deploying software security patches. The plan is to use SMS as a backup to Patchlink. I had installed the ITMU and appropriate scans about...
Ok, so I am a week late and forgot it myself..but that does not change the fact that we are now a year old! This does not include the time that smsblogcasts.com was online as that lasted about 2 months. The site has come a long way and all I am very pleased...
I completed our upgrade to the ITMU last month and tested to a site with 260 some odd workstations. Out of all those machines, only 4 failed. They failed because the Microsoft Update Scan Tool failed to run on the workstations, not because there was a...
When sending out a package that requires a reboot, I tend to set the program to “Program restarts computer” so that SMS knows the reboot should occur and I get a proper exit code. However, patches / updates are different I have come to find. In my recent...