11 may 2013

SCCM by Davis: “New Series of Microsoft Virtual Academy Courses on System Center–Ask a System Center Expert Your Questions!” plus 19 more

SCCM by Davis: “New Series of Microsoft Virtual Academy Courses on System Center–Ask a System Center Expert Your Questions!” plus 19 more

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New Series of Microsoft Virtual Academy Courses on System Center–Ask a System Center Expert Your Questions!

Posted: 10 May 2013 01:55 PM PDT

On May 21, Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) continues its monthly series of free Q&A sessions led by Microsoft technical evangelists. This month, we're releasing several great System Center 2012 SP1 courses and have invited Symon Perriman to answer any questions you may have about the product.

Space is limited. Register now.

The live, audience-led discussion is geared toward IT professionals that are interested in System Center 2012 SP1. Attendees can get answers to their questions on technical capabilities, get advice for using products in a live environment; and learn from their peers in the industry and Microsoft expert Symon Perriman.

This MVA Live Q&A session will focus on topics covered in the previous System Center Courses posted on MVA. Prepare for this event by taking the following courses and testing your knowledge with the module self-assessments:

· What's New in System Center 2012

· System Center 2012 SP1: Capabilities

· System Center 2012 SP1: Updates

· System Center 2012: Configuration Manager (SCCM)

· System Center 2012: Data Protection Manager (DMP)

· System Center 2012: Orchestrator (SCO) & Service Manager (SCSM)

· System Center 2012: Operations Manager (SCOM)

· System Center 2012: Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)

· System Center 2012: Licensing Overview

· System Center Advisor

clip_image002As a Microsoft corporate Technical Evangelist covering Private Cloud, System Center & Hyper-V, Symon Perriman is a recognized industry expert in datacenter management, cloud, virtualization, high-availability, disaster recovery, mobile technologies and social media. Previously he spent four years as a Program Manager on the Server Clustering & High-Availability team and has been working in the technology industry since 2002. Symon holds several patents and certifications, including MCSE Private Cloud, Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and VMware Certified Professional (VCP). Additionally, he has contributed to four technical books for virtualization, server, clustering and SQL; co-hosts the 'Edge Show' for IT Professionals; and has had technologies featured in PC Magazine. Symon also serves as President & Founder of FanWide Technologies LLC and graduated from Duke University with degrees in Computer Science, Economics and Film & Digital Studies.

Registration is now open for this free Q&A event: Register now.

Join our ITPro Panel and influence future Microsoft Server Management and Cloud products!

Posted: 10 May 2013 01:53 PM PDT

The Microsoft Server and Management Studios User Research team is looking for IT Professionals to join our customer panel. Your participation in this panel will help us understand customer requirements, workflows, and usage trends when working with Windows Server, fabric virtualization, cloud management, and infrastructure management. In exchange for your participation in studies you elect to engage in; you get to choose Microsoft product gratuity from our standard usability gratuity lists.

We are looking to grow our panel particularly in the areas of Cloud administration and virtualization infrastructure management. You will be asked to participate in customer phone/site interviews, focus groups, surveys, and usability studies.

We are asking potential panel candidates to start by completing a survey that will help us determine if you fit the criteria for the panel.

Once you complete the survey, we will contact you with next steps for participation.

We currently are only accepting participants located in the US but will add additional countries in the near future.

Sound interesting? To get started, please complete this survey. We will contact you to let you know if you meet the requirements to participate.

NCP Virtual Private Network Client Supports Android BYOD Security

Posted: 10 May 2013 01:10 PM PDT

The NCP VPN Client for Android 4.x is a full-function virtual private network client.

Cisco: IT Visibility Into Biz Like a ‘Foggy Day in London’

Posted: 10 May 2013 12:10 PM PDT

IT and business leaders are collaborating more, but despite the importance of IT, there is still a gulf between the two, a Cisco survey finds.

Java as an Application in SCCM 2012

Posted: 30 Mar 2013 10:20 AM PDT

The new application model in SCCM 2012 quickly became one of my favorite features, and has remained so across every deployment I work on. With its comparatively advanced deployment and detection methods, it is extremely useful for applications of all sorts, even those that require frequent updates.
In SCCM 2007, everytime a new version of Java or Adobe Reader came out, you'd have to create a new package and advertisement, and then turn around and update all of your task sequences. This was at best tedious. Sure, there are tools like SCUG that can help with this, but they are not always available to all organizations, and they had their own problems and limitations.
By making use of the new application model, administrators can much more easily keep up on these updates.

Source Files:

Begin by downloading the bits:  http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

The 64-bit version is for 64-bit browsers. So you'll probably still need the 32-bit version for 64-bit Windows.

Get the MSI:

Launch the executable. Once the splash screen appears, the files will have been extracted. Navigate, for the 32-bit version to

%appdata%\..\LocalLow\Sun\Java\jre1.7.0_17

and for the 64-bit version to

%appdata%\..\LocalLow\Sun\Java\jre1.7.0_17_x64

Copy the files to your source location for SCCM packages.

Make the transform:
Next, use Orca to edit any custom settings you need. Some of the most common ones can be found under the Property table. In this example, I've changed AUTOUPDATECHECK, JAVAUPDATE, and JU all to 0 to prevent any kind of updating. I'll also change IEEXPLORER and MOZILLA to 1 to enable java in browsers.
java-orca

You may have other changes to make, such as a custom install location, all of those kinds of changes can be made into a transform with Orca.  Once finished, I then save the custom transform in the application source directory and create it in SCCM.

javasource

Deployment Type:

Be sure to edit the installation method to include your new custom transform file:

msiexec /i "jre1.7.0_17.msi" TRANSFORMS=custom.mst /q

Now, you can set this application to supersede the previous version of Java you are using.  Or, if this is the first version of Java your placing into SCCM, then you can use this method to keep your Java clients up to date.  When a new version comes out, build it this way and have it supersede the old version.  You're now one your way to automating that much more of your environment.

You may also want to look into removing old versions of Java if you're trying to get old versions out of your environment.

-easy

Chaddd replied to the forum topic How do I find missing content in the group System Center Configuration Manager 2012

Posted: 10 May 2013 09:13 AM PDT

If you select the task sequence, and then the references tab under the results pane, do you see the image you are trying to push there? If you see the reference there, but not under your boot images, is that your […]

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Morris Lloyd became a registered member

Posted: 10 May 2013 09:12 AM PDT

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Falcone Fined $18 Billion Amid Talk of a LightSquared Revival

Posted: 10 May 2013 09:05 AM PDT

LightSquared's Philip Falcone will pay $18 billion for dirty dealings. The Times called the fine "a rounding error to a hedge fund billionaire."

Rod Trent wrote a new post, Brad Anderson giving some of the same and more at TechEd 2013

Posted: 10 May 2013 08:31 AM PDT

Its great to see Brad so excited about keynoting at TechEd 2013. Just off from keynoting at MMS 2013, Brad will be presenting the IT side of TechEd 2013.  You might expect to hear a lot of what he talked about at […]

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Supporting Windows 8 Mail App in the Enterprise

Posted: 10 May 2013 02:21 AM PDT

In a recent project we faced an interesting problems using the Windows 8 Mail App.

Windows 8 include a built-in email app named Mail (also referred to as Windows 8 Mail or the Windows 8 Mail app). We used a Standard User Account without any local Admin privileges, logged on to the Domain and tried to add our Exchange information to the mail app. After adding our Account information an error is popping up "To sync username@yourdomainname.com, you will need to change this PC's settings to match the mail server's security settings."

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After some investigation about this error we found out there are few settings Enterprises need to prepare before using the mail app in an environment with logged down user rights.

The Windows 8 Mail to allows users using ActiveSync (EAS) for Exchange synchronization. If you add your account to the Mail application your Exchange policies will pushed down and the stronger policy will take presence (http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/11/26/supporting-windows-8-mail-in-your-organization.aspx). If your EAS is stronger than your Domain or local policy the Windows Policy Engine requires admin access to apply policy changes, since non-admins are not allowed to make changes to computer/account configurations, you will get the issue documented above.

In a next step you have to compare the policy that is applied on the device(s) against what is being requested by the Exchange server.  

Control  the corresponding Group Policy (Computer Configuration / Windows Settings / Security Settings / Local Policies / Security Options /) to have the same settings  as you have configured in Exchange. If both are identical you can add your Exchange Account without getting any popup.

AllowSimpleDevicePassword                                     : Windows Policy Engine would try to apply this policy,
MaxInactivityTimeDeviceLock                                    : Windows Policy Engine would try to apply this policy,
MaxDevicePasswordFailedAttempts                       : Windows Policy Engine would try to apply this policy,

DevicePasswordExpiration                                          : Windows Policy Engine would try to apply this policy,
DevicePasswordHistory                                                 : Windows Policy Engine would try to apply this policy,
RequireDeviceEncryption                                              : Windows Policy Engine would try to apply this policy,

MinDevicePasswordComplexCharacters               : domain accounts, password length and complex characters are not governed by EAS,
MinDevicePasswordLength                                         : domain accounts, password length and complex characters are not governed by EAS,

This post was contributed by Lutz Seidemann, a Solution Architect with Microsoft Consulting Services.

The information on this site is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, confers no rights, and is not supported by the authors or Microsoft Corporation. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified in the Terms of Use.

ShoreTel CEO Blackmore Is Retiring From UC Vendor

Posted: 10 May 2013 08:20 AM PDT

The announcement comes just more than year after ShoreTel, under Blackmore, bought M5 Networks to acquire cloud-based UC capabilities.

Henry Truong wrote a new post, 1E wins Green IT Award for fourth year running for NightWatchman Enterprise

Posted: 10 May 2013 08:08 AM PDT

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The evening started with a drinks reception which allowed everyone to catch up with old friends and start to make new ones. Following a short speech from Richard French from BCS The Chartered Institute for […]

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Wilson became a registered member

Posted: 10 May 2013 07:56 AM PDT

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FCC Proposes Expansion of In-Flight WiFi

Posted: 10 May 2013 06:00 AM PDT

The Commission proposes to establish an air-ground mobile broadband service, using a ground-based network to communicate with planes.

Rod Trent posted an update in the group The Word at myITforum: Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be […]

Posted: 10 May 2013 05:47 AM PDT

Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

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SJS-myitforum became a registered member

Posted: 10 May 2013 04:56 AM PDT

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Matt became a registered member

Posted: 10 May 2013 04:22 AM PDT

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Nakwoo became a registered member

Posted: 10 May 2013 01:10 AM PDT

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Flexera Software wrote a new post, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a hot topic

Posted: 09 May 2013 04:27 PM PDT

By Randy Littleson
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is in
the news a lot right now. There's this article "VMware CEO flags VDI adoption barriers" where he claims storage costs derail VDI projects. There's
this […]

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Interop: Open Compute Project to Tackle Network Switches

Posted: 09 May 2013 03:45 PM PDT

The Open Compute Project says it will turn its attention to developing open-standard network switches, news that won't be entirely welcome with makers of proprietary switches, especially Cisco.

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