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2018 27

  1. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 21 – Troubleshooting
  2. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 20 – Automating and Custom OSD
  3. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 19 – DaRT2
  4. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 18 – Advanced Scenarios 2
  5. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 17 – OSD and Custom Boot Images – Process and Strategy
  6. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 16 – BIOS or UEFI
  7. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 15 – Advanced Concepts
  8. System Center Updates Publisher Video Tutorial
  9. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 14 – Pre-staged Media
  10. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 13 – to be Known or to be Unknown – that is the question
  11. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 23 – Nested Task Sequences
  12. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 12 – OSD and the ADK
  13. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 11 – MDT Integration
  14. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 10 – USMT and OSD
  15. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 6 – Task Sequence variables a deeper dive
  16. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 9 – Standalone USMT
  17. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 8 – Understanding PXE
  18. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 7 – Driver Management
  19. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 5 – The Logical Task Sequence
  20. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 4 – Image Deployment
  21. Configuration Manager Third Party Software Updates Video Tutorial
  22. OSD Video Tutorial: Part 3 – Task Sequencing
  23. OSD Video Tutorial: Part I – Introduction and Basics
  24. ConfigMgr–Software Updates video series
  25. ConfigMgr Current Branch – Express Updates
  26. ConfigMgr Current Branch–Windows Update for Business
  27. ConfigMgr Current Branch–Software Update Delivery Video Tutorial

2017 1

  1. Pre-Staged Media the Flexible Way

2016 5

  1. Speaking at IT/Dev Connections 2016
  2. Speaking at Live 360
  3. Deploying OneDrive for Business – An Example
  4. OSD SMSTSDownloadProgram Option
  5. Compliance Settings – Examples

2015 6

  1. OSD – Standalone Media, Version Control and Auto-Updating
  2. Inventory or Compliance Settings–Making the Right Choice
  3. Speaking at Live! 360 Orlando
  4. ConfigMgr 2012, the Application Model and advanced Detection Logic
  5. Speaking at ITDev/Connections
  6. Power belongs to YOU–the OSD Prestart Command

2014 5

  1. Setting ‘available time’ on a deployment
  2. Configuring Source Download During Client Install
  3. Policy Flow – The Details
  4. Automating Software Updates
  5. OSD for Linux Imaging? Yes, really.

2013 12

  1. Delete Behavior for Devices in ConfigMgr 2012
  2. OSD Machine Import and the GUID
  3. OSD Pre-stage and UEFI Systems
  4. Standalone Windows Intune – Managing Systems
  5. Configuring an Evaluation Windows Intune Standalone Deployment
  6. Unix and Linux support in ConfigMgr 2012 SP1
  7. MMS 2013 – Orchestrator and ConfigMgr – Better Together
  8. Configuring multiple Software Update Points in a ConfigMgr 2012 Primary Site – What to expect
  9. Speaking at MMS 2013 – see you there!
  10. ConfigMgr 2012: OSD Machine Variables not available to task sequence – Post Mortem review
  11. Fix available for Root Certificate Update issue on Windows Server
  12. Modifying a Report to Merge Software Update Deployments with Updates Delivered Through Standard Software Distribution.

2012 4

  1. ConfigMgr 2012–Application Model–Internals– Part II - Client Side Deployment
  2. ConfigMgr 2012–Application Model–Internals–Part I
  3. Interesting changes to client push in CM12
  4. Presenting at MMS 2012

2011 11

  1. Using System Center Update Publisher 2007 with Verisign Certificates
  2. System Center Updates Publisher 2007 and WSUS Self-Signed Cert Option
  3. Integrating ConfigMgr 2007 and ForeFront Endpoint Protection 2010
  4. How to create offline or standalone USB media for OS Deployment in ConfigMgr 2007
  5. Software Updates–INTERNALS! (MMS 2011 session)–part III
  6. Software Updates–INTERNALS! (MMS 2011 session)–part II
  7. Software Updates–INTERNALS! (MMS 2011 session)–part I
  8. So Long MMS 2011
  9. Microsoft PFE (Premier Field Engineering) is hiring
  10. SCCM state messaging–in depth
  11. Presenting at MMS 2011

2010 22

  1. Test remote SQL connectivity EASILY!
  2. Focusing on the printer! Printer Monitoring MP Supplement
  3. The case of the MIF and WMI repository
  4. Introducing SCCM 2007 R3
  5. Problems Creating USB Media with Windows 7
  6. Intel vPro does Powershell
  7. OS Imaging via Web Page
  8. Updating custom alert fields using subscriptions and powershell
  9. Place a Group in Maintenance Mode with Powershell
  10. Direct Access – SCCM – Managing internet clients
  11. OpsMgr R2 Cumulative Update 2 has released
  12. SCCM Toolkit 2 Released
  13. MMS 2010
  14. SCCM 2007 Superflows Released
  15. Populating groups from a text file – step by step
  16. Extending a class attributes from a flat file.
  17. SCCM Patching and OpsMgr Maintenance Mode
  18. Configuring SCCM and Branch Cache
  19. Presenting at MMS 2010
  20. SCCM and SQL Reporting Services
  21. Three Cheers for the Authoring Resource Kit Tools! Part III – The Cookdown Analyzer
  22. Three Cheers for the Authoring Resource Kit Tools! Part II – The Workflow Simulator

2009 43

  1. Three Cheers for the Authoring Resource Kit Tools! Part I - The Workflow Analyzer
  2. “Ccmsetup is being restarted due to an administrative action. Installation files will be reset and downloaded again”
  3. SCCM: Forcing a Task Sequence to Rerun
  4. BING 411
  5. Understanding Monitors in OpsMgr 2007 part III – Dependency Monitors
  6. Categories Filter Missing in OpsMgr R2 Notifications
  7. SCCM R3 is announced!
  8. Understanding Monitors in Opsmgr 2007 part II Aggregate Monitors
  9. SCCM AMT Provisioning Flowcharts
  10. Monitoring File Size with Custom WMI Performance Counter
  11. What ports REALLY need to be open for AMT in SCCM?
  12. SCCM Unleashed is Unleashed
  13. Update SQL Management Pack posted to catalog!
  14. Understanding the R2 Process Monitoring Management Pack Templates
  15. Will you PROVISION already?!
  16. Adding certificates to the local certificates store and setting local policy using a command line – System Center Updates Publisher example
  17. Using System Center Update Publisher with Verisign Certificates - Updated
  18. Unable to import WIM into SCCM console
  19. Monitoring for Heartbeat Failures on non-Server Agents
  20. Standard operators and subscriptions
  21. SCCM features NOT supported through IBCM
  22. Is your RMS updating configuration too frequently?
  23. Understanding ‘nested’ management pack discoveries and how they impact total discovery time?
  24. Using a variable to query TOP N entries from SQL
  25. LocalizedText issues gone in R2?
  26. OpsMgr DB Grooming – How it works
  27. Large table query, with rowcount
  28. OpsMgr R2 RTM!
  29. Tool to verify AMT certificates
  30. Modifying SMS_DEF.MOF and Configuration.MOF to pull information from a 64-bit registry
  31. Custom MOF additions in SCCM – Simplified
  32. So long MMS 2009
  33. ITMU/SCCM/Patchinstall command line switches
  34. Checking Management Packs for Best Practice Adherence
  35. Installation Failure of OEM Deployment Tools
  36. Backing up Hyper-V Virtual Machines
  37. Configuring Connected Management Groups in OpsMgr 2007 - how it works
  38. Configuring Connected Management Groups in OpsMgr 2007
  39. Presenting at MMS 2009
  40. Bulk Resetting the Health State
  41. How to install SCCM patches manually on Vista/Server 2008
  42. Creating OpsMgr 2007 Groups Programmatically
  43. Discovering AD Security Groups in OpsMgr 2007

2008 62

  1. Deploying Virtual Apps with SCCM
  2. App-V - Introduction, Components and SCCM Integration
  3. Maintenance Mode by Config File
  4. TelAlert and OpsMgr
  5. SCCM 2007 new features flowcharts
  6. Updated ADMP and DHCP MP Released!
  7. Maintenance Mode in the Console
  8. Upcoming Technet Webcase on OpsMgr 2007
  9. Sample Linked Report MP
  10. Enough with the Maintenance Mode tools!!!
  11. Grouping Windows Computer Objects and Health Service Watcher Objects - updated
  12. MDT and SCCM 2007 - better together
  13. OpsMgr 2007 Command Line Notifications and Alert ID
  14. Setting up Multicasting in SCCM
  15. Grouping Windows Computer Objects and Associated Health Service Watcher Object
  16. Gateways and agents in untrusted domains/workgroups
  17. Granular Targeting in OpsMgr 2007
  18. Unique 31569 Event Deploying Reports
  19. Unknown Computers in SCCM 2007 R2- how it works
  20. Unknown Computers in SCCM 2007 R2 - overview
  21. Smsmap
  22. SCCM 2007 R2 has released
  23. Updated DHCP Management Pack Issue
  24. Updated Print Server MP Released!
  25. DNS, DHCP management packs released!
  26. AD Integration Updated
  27. ConfigMgr 2007 R2
  28. Windows Mobile 6.1 now supported on ConfigMgr!!!
  29. Organized at last
  30. FQDN Task Sequence username limitation
  31. ConfigMgr and OpsMgr Maintenance Mode
  32. Capturing logs during failed Task Sequence Execution
  33. Task Sequences and advertisements
  34. Testing Network Speed - Multiple Applications
  35. The Authoring Console or the Operations Console?
  36. Relationships and Grouping
  37. Understanding relationships in OpsMgr 2007
  38. Heartbeat detection in OpsMgr 2007
  39. OpsMgr Vista Gadget
  40. OpsMgr 2007 Security Hardening Guide
  41. OpsMgr Authoring Console has released!
  42. Service Level Dashboard for OpsMgr 2007 now in beta!
  43. OpsMgr cross-platform extender
  44. Rules/Monitors and Event Descriptions in OpsMgr
  45. ConfigMgr SDK available
  46. Required security mappings in OpsMgr
  47. Required SQL Maintenance for OpsMgr
  48. OpsMgr AD Integration - how it works
  49. Command line notifications and variables
  50. Health Service Lockdown Tool
  51. Engyro Connectors are FREE!!!
  52. PowerGUI
  53. Performance Data and Views in OpsMgr 2007
  54. A few questions of interest - Question 8
  55. A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 7
  56. A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 6
  57. A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 5
  58. A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 4
  59. A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 3
  60. A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 2
  61. A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 1
  62. What's new/interesting in SCOM 2007?

2007 16

  1. SCOM 2007 - operational and datawarehouse grooming
  2. SCOM 2007 - SP1 available
  3. Branch DP Internals - client side - SCCM 2007
  4. Branch DP internals - SCCM 2007
  5. Collection variables in SCCM 2007
  6. System Center Config Manager has released!
  7. SMS 2003 - Heartbeat Discovery
  8. BDD 2007 - driver injection.
  9. SCCM 2007 - Binary Delta Replication
  10. Presenting at MMS 2007
  11. SCCM 2007 OSD - boot images - drivers - lab shell
  12. SCCM 2007 OSD and driver catalogs
  13. SMS 2003 OSD feature pack and Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
  14. SCCM 2007 OSD and task sequences
  15. OSD in SCCM 2007
  16. Business Desktop Deployment 2007

2006 21

  1. NAP and SCCM 2007 - how it works
  2. NAP and SCCM2007 interaction
  3. Network Access Protection in SCCM 2007
  4. SCCM 2007 - peer DP functionality - on demand provisioning
  5. SCCM 2007 - Peer DP functionality - admin provisioning
  6. SCCM2007 - Peer DP functionality
  7. Grooming in MOM 2005
  8. SMS heartbeat discovery and delete aged discovery task
  9. State based alerts in MOM 2005
  10. Understanding and troubleshooting the MOM DTS package
  11. Understanding SMS client Side Software Installation Security
  12. ITMU and patchinstall
  13. MOM 2005 SP1 now officially supports SQL 2005
  14. Desired Configuration Manager for SMS 2003
  15. Working with SNMP and MOM
  16. Link to document
  17. SMS and package hashing
  18. MOM Operator console sluggish
  19. SQL 2005 and SMS/MOM
  20. MOM 2005 providers
  21. Heartbeat detection in MOM 2005