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Having a Task Sequence that does all your work for you is a tough job at times and depending on how many hardware platforms you have will determine how long it takes to make and test your Task Sequence. In this video I demonstrate how to advertise an...
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...
As I stated in my other post , building a TS which will to just about everything in one TS is the key. Rather than having a few or dozens of Task Sequences, we want to have one or two that will work on all your hardware platforms. The following Level...
I have received numerous emails asking for videos on OSD and how they work. While we all know that each organization has different requirements and goals, I have put together a video in the Level 5 section that shows how to put together a Task Sequence...
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...
Although we may read up on service packs and other releases, we may not always see everything and Microsoft may not always tell you all the things they improved on. I found this gem just a few minutes ago and thought it was interesting. When you are not...
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...
As many of you know, we are upgrading the website to a new version of Community Server and developing a new premium section of the website called "Level 5". We have hired several people which include 2 Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) to make...
Most of you may know that Microsoft has an Exchange Ranger training program which is a deep dive into the core of Exchange. The class is offered in Redmond and is either a pass fail result. Recently, Microsoft made a SCCM Ranger program, but is no where...
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...
As the 3rd year of The Blogcast Repository approaches, Microsoft has finally added us as a static link from the System Center pages of their website. It's a humble experience working on this site for 3 years and never asking for something in return. People...
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...
I found this gem that works for other older BDD and SMS 2003 OSD fixes and thought it was worth sharing. My issue was that my drivers were loading and or made available to the new OSD operating system. However, when I would login, I would get the New...
One problem with CM 2007 USB drives is that once you boot your USB drive, the boot.ini get's insterted with the improper partition information. This tip will help you resolved the issue and keep the USB drive in the system for the entire build. If you...
There will be times when you want packages to be applied to certain hardware platforms. This tip will give you the information you need to setup custom WMI Queries in your Task Sequence. In the Task Sequence, click on the package you want to edit and...