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Happy Thanksgiving: See me in New York City

This week will be busy for me as I will be in NYC for the holiday week. I wanted to wish everyone at TBR a Happy Thanksgiving in advance and my family will keep all of you in our thoughts on Thanksgiving Day (we do that every day, but will make a special point to wish all of you and your families the...

Posted to Brian S. Tucker (Weblog) by Brian S. Tucker on 11-24-2008
Configuring SCCM R2 SQL Reporting Services Role

Another great new feature of R2 is the addition of SQL Reporting Services. This rich new tool will allow you to have greater speed and flexibility with your reports. Not only can you convert your reports that come with the standard version of SCCM SP1, but you can also make new reports much easier than...

Posted to Brian S. Tucker (Weblog) by Brian S. Tucker on 09-19-2008
Deploying Office 2007 with SCCM 2007

Deploying Office 2007 with a custom transform (.MSP) is a complex task due to all the possible configurations. To create the transform, you need to install the AdminTemplates.exe and then copy the admin folder to the Office 2007 CD source folder to open the custom configuration tool which is what saves...

Posted to Brian S. Tucker (Weblog) by Brian S. Tucker on 09-18-2008
Level 5 SCCM R2 Introduction

Now that SCCM R2 is available , we should discuss the features associated with the upgrade. R2 has a few key features that were once available in SMS 2003 as a Feature Pack (such as Client Health Monitoring) and also some new functionality that was not available in SMS 2003 SP3. The Level 5 video is...

Posted to Brian S. Tucker (Weblog) by Brian S. Tucker on 09-16-2008
How to Deploy & Configure a SCCM Secondary Site

Secondary sites are used for many reasons and can only report to a primary server in the hierarchy. A secondary site can be used at smaller sites that don't require the power of a primary or have a smaller number of systems to manage. Also, one of the great things about a secondary is when you have...

Posted to Brian S. Tucker (Weblog) by Brian S. Tucker on 09-16-2008
Level 5 Open House a Great Success: Next Open House in less than 2 Hours!

It's been a long day in several respects. We found out at 10:00 AM that our server bandwidth was too small for the amount of traffic we had with app the people watching the Level 5 Guides. First we moved the cable to a 100MB switch and that was ok, but the firewall was unable to handle to the resources...

Posted to Brian S. Tucker (Weblog) by Brian S. Tucker on 08-13-2008
Deploying OSD Task Sequence to Existing Clients Using the USMT

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 existing Task Sequence to a live SCCM client in the...

Posted to Brian S. Tucker (Weblog) by Brian S. Tucker on 08-12-2008
All Level 5 Guides Open for "Limited Event" - Wendsday August 13, 2008

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 know of any other site that charges any fee and...

Posted to Brian S. Tucker (Weblog) by Brian S. Tucker on 08-08-2008
Using your Task Sequence for PXE Boot - Step by Step

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 5 video will show you how to deploy the Bare Metal...

Posted to Brian S. Tucker (Weblog) by Brian S. Tucker on 08-07-2008
How to build a Task Sequence to Deploy an OS including USMT Support

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 which will work for OSD. I show step by step how...

Posted to Brian S. Tucker (Weblog) by Brian S. Tucker on 08-07-2008

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