The Best of Windows Deployment

Jeremy Chapman wrote an excellent article where he sums up a great list of resources about Windows deployment.

If you are new to the Windows deployment game or are stuck in the spooky world of drive-cloning with older sector-based processes, this should help you get started.

His topics include an overview, Video Demonstrations, Deployment Tools and VHDs to Download, Deeper Technical Guidance, Deployment-Related Blogs to Follow and Deployment Hands-on Labs.

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Setting up a bluetooth connection on Windows Server 2008

Last week when I was in Redmond I bought myself a wireless bluetooth Microsoft Mobile keyboard and mouse. Back there I connected the devices to my Dell Latitude D630 laptop running Windows 7 and everything worked great.
But back home when I was booting my dual-boot machine in Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 I noticed that the Bluetooth devices did not connect to the laptop. After a small investigation I learned that the bluetooth stack wasn’t loaded and the device wasn’t recognized by the OS.

App-V 4.6 and ConfigMgr 2007 SP2: even better together

Organizations that are moving towards Microsoft Application Virtualization are often wondering what the best delivery infrastructure is for their environment. In the days of SoftGrid there was only one way of delivering your virtual applications to the end-user, by building a dedicated SoftGrid infrastructure. But since the introduction of App-V 4.5 the possibilities have extended, making the product suitable for almost every environment.
In this post I will describe and visualize some of the benefits of using the scenario where App-V integrates with the market leader for software distribution, Microsoft's own System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 SP2.

The Configuration Manager Service Pack Install Guide

Got this information from fellow App-V MVP Kevin Kaminski on his twitter page.

The Configuration Manager Support Team blog posted a great article on ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 install failures.

This document was created to help in troubleshooting Configuration Manager Service Pack 2 (SP2) install failures. This document is not entirely specific to Service Pack 2 and can apply to Service Pack 1 installs, upgrades from SMS 2003 to SCCM, and future service pack or Configuration Manager versions that rely on .mof file compilations, SQL SPNS, provider DLLs, etc.

Contents:

Section 1 Pre-Upgrade Best Practices

Section 2 General Troubleshooting

Section 3 List of Known Issues and Solutions

If you want, just take a look and learn from it.

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Popular and useful tools for ConfigMgr 2007

Peter van der Woude just posted a nice sum up of some popular free tools and website for Configuration Manager 2007, in any particular order:

• SCCM Right Click Tools
• SCCM Client Center
• OSD++
• SMSMap
• SCCMAutoDoc
• SCCM 2007 SDK
• SCCM-Tools.com
• BitsAdmin
• WMI Administrative Tools
• WMI Diagnosis Utility

Please visit his website to view details about these tools and download links.