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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:16 AM

Using System Center Update Publisher with Verisign Certificates

Using System Center Update Publisher with Verisign Certificates The System Center Update Publisher (SCUP) allows for third party or custom updates to be published in the WSUS catalog for consumption by ConfigMgr or other systems that use WSUS as a back
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Monday, March 09, 2009 5:17 AM

Checking Management Packs for Best Practice Adherence

If you work with OpsMgr you work with management packs in some form - either using ones available from the Microsoft download library, ones available from 3rd parties or ones that you author yourself.  Either way, wouldn't it be cool if we had a
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Monday, March 09, 2009 4:55 AM

Installation Failure of OEM Deployment Tools

OEMs (currently Dell and IBM) provide deployment packs that plug into the OSD feature of SCCM to help deploy operating systems to their specific hardware. These deployment packs provide some cool features - one of which is the ability to provision servers
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Sunday, March 08, 2009 9:11 AM

Backing up Hyper-V Virtual Machines

Like I'm sure many of you, I have a lab full of virtual machines.  I can't imagine what would happen to my productivity if I had a system crash and all of those virtual systems vanished at the same time.  The answer?  backup those virtual
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009 7:56 AM

Configuring Connected Management Groups in OpsMgr 2007 - how it works

My previous post covered configuring a connected management group - but how does it really work?  When I first starting pulling this apart I had some preconceived expectations about how it would work - probably because of my familiarity with the
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