TechEd Australia 2012 – Sessions Announced!

TechEd Australia 2012 is back to the Gold Coast, and I’m very pleased to announce that I will be presenting three FOUR! sessions this year.

UPDATE 12/09/2012 – The SIM314 vFuture session had to be pulled because SCCM 2012 SP1 Beta was not going to be ready in time. Then it was released right at [...]

August 14th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Microsoft, Presenting, SCCM 2012, System Center, TechEd 2012, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 | Leave a comment

VITTA Technical Conference – Slide Decks

This week I was pleased to present three sessions on Configuration Manager 2012 at the Technical Conference component of the VITTA education conference: Reign of the Cloud.

It was great to present to such an engaged and engaging audience, all of whom had great, relevant questions. It absolutely made it a highly enjoyable presenting experience [...]

August 8th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Presenting, SCCM 2012, System Center, Windows 8 | 2 comments

Manage Server 2008 R2 From Windows 8 Server

One of the really nice features in Windows 8 Server is the re-vamped Server Manager. I have to admit, I like it a LOT, mainly because as you add more servers in your environment to the interface, Server Manager brings in information from each system and starts fleshing out the interface with dynamic groups based [...]

March 9th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: PowerShell, Windows 8, Windows 8 Server, Windows Server 2008 R2 | 13 comments

Enable RemoteFX on Windows 8 Server Beta

There are loads of documented changes and improvements to the RemoteFX technology stack in Windows 8 Server, so of course I’m keen to try it out.

I’ve now got my hands on three Dell Optiplex 990 systems, each with 12GB RAM and a Radeon HD5450 GPU. Not cutting-edge perhaps, but fine for testing basic functionality.

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March 8th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: Hyper-V, RemoteFX, Windows 8, Windows 8 Server | 43 comments

“Unable to read task sequence configuration disk” in SCCM OSD

UPDATE – 26 July 2012

I encountered this error again in a different scenario – running a Build and Capture OSD Task Sequence on Windows 8 Release Preview x64 in Configuration Manager 2012 SP1.

The build and sysprep processes went through without a hitch, but when the system rebooted into WinPE to begin the capture [...]

February 23rd, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: SCCM 2007, SCCM 2012, System Center, Windows 7/Server 2K8 R2 SP1, Windows 8 | 4 comments
 
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