With 2012 release of System Center Configuration Manager, planning and designing a hierarchy became a bit more difficult. Not because of the limitations, but because of the huge mix of different possibilities you have. For instance with the introduction of CAS role (Which sits on the top of the hierarchy and is used for management […]
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A change of subject for my matter, but security has always been a huge interest of mine. However, I thought that I would write about phishing attacks.Now the art of phishing is just about trying to fetch information from people (and in there useful information such as social ID, bank card information and or username
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With Service Pack 1 of Configuration Manager it allows you to create a distribution point in Windows Azure, in case you lack the hardware needed to meet the needs or because of security, limitations that you would want all your clients to download content from the internet rather from your infrastructure. Now this type of
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When Citrix bought ZenPrise, they bought one of the leading MDM companies on the market, and Citrix themself had some MDM functionality in their own products but nothing to what ZenPrise had, this was in December. Now in February Citrix has managed to release XenMobile (Which is a part of the bigger package called Mobile
Quick post, when setting up AppController 2.5 using the Wizard you are required to enter alot of information: Administrator password and email address AppController host name, IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway Note: You can also configure an IP address for AppController if you want a different IP address than what you configured by using
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As a part of the ASUS PadFone 2 Test Pilot project. Asus have given me the opportunity to test-drive the new Asus PadPone 2.In addition, what is the PadPone 2? The name implies it; it is a phone and a Pad. Source: http://www.asus.com/websites/global/products/SENnFuo39DgIWFls/dd.jpg As you can see you have the phone which is running Android
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With Service Pack 1 you now have the option to use PowerShell against Configuration Manager. It comes with almost 500 cmdlets, which you can use.And I planned that this post would be a live post where I am going to post all of my PowerShell one-liners for various tasks within Configuration Manager. Now first of
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With Windows Server 2012, the default option when installing is Server Core. Server Core is not a new function it was also included in Windows Server 2008 R2 but if you installed Server Core there you had no option to upgrade to “full GUI” if you wanted to change.In 2012, you have full options to
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Veeam has recently (as of yesterday 11.02.2013) released a new product called Backup and replication Cloud Edition.This product allows you to setup backup to a public cloud provider. For instance, you can now setup a backup plan to store your backups on a blob in Windows Azure. Veeam will can also define how much backup
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If you have a large infrastructure with Configuration Manager, you have a lot of power at your disposable. Deploying software to maybe 100.000 computers spreading over different sites and geographical areas. However, in many cases you will not be alone with that responsibility and everyone once in a while you always have someone that is
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