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Avoiding Microsoft “Fast Fail” Updates Using SCCM 2012/R2 Automatic Deployment Rules

August 19, 2014 // 6 Comments

I know there’s a risk in telling you to delay deploying updates for 1 month. Some think that means switching to manual approval – and that is an oxymoron because manual approval rarely happens. No; I would rather see large enterprises use a model that automatically deploys updates after [...]

Microsoft News Summary – 30 July 2014

July 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

The big news here for MSFT techies are the releases of update rollups for SysCtr 2012 SP1 and SysCtr 2012 R2. Please wait 1 month before deploying to avoid the inevitable issues (history indicates that I am probably right) and use that time to carefully review the installation instructions. Using [...]

Microsoft News Summary – 14 July 2014

July 14, 2014 // 2 Comments

After a week’s break in Finland, I am back with news from the last 10 or so days. It was a busy period! Setting up a Highly-Available VMM 2012 Environment: This article will guide you through the recommended way to setup and configure a typical, highly available (HA) System Center 2012 R2 Virtual [...]

TechCamp 2013 Wrap Up

November 29, 2013 // 1 Comment

Yesterday we ran TechCamp 2013, the Irish community launch of Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and Windows Intune. All the feedback I have heard has been positive – thankfully! 🙂 We kicked off with Dave Northey (Microsoft CAT Program Manager). Dave [...]

Launch Event – Learn From The Best; Not From The Rest

November 26, 2013 // 0 Comments

There are only hours now between now and the start of TechCamp 2013 in City West in Dublin, where Irish MVPs (and a couple of Microsoft folks) will be presenting on: Windows Server 2012 R2 Service automation using System Center 2012 R2 Hybrid cloud using Hyper-V Network Virtualization, NVGRE, SCVMM [...]

Windows Intune “Wave F”

November 7, 2013 // 2 Comments

The new version of Windows Intune is not actually called “Wave E”. I found a presentation by Microsoft Norway that calls the latest release “Blue/Wave F” Some of the slides hint that Intune is doing single sign-on for BYOD. That’s not strictly true; that functionality is [...]

Event: TechCamp2013 – Learn About Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2 And Windows 8.1 (Dublin)

October 22, 2013 // 0 Comments

I’m delighted to announce that on November 28th in City West Hotel (just outside the M50 in Dublin), there will be a community launch of: Windows Server 2012 R2 System Center 2012 R2 Windows 8.1 (in the business) For all intents and purposes, this is the launch of the next generation of [...]

Event – The Path To Windows 8

May 3, 2013 // 1 Comment

I will be speaking at an event in London UK called The Path To Windows 8. The Path to Windows 8 event brings together the brightest IT professionals from around the world to talk about Windows 8 and how Microsoft can help you migrate your current desktop infrastructure to Windows 8. In addition, [...]

Reminder: Re-Download Configuration Manager & Endpoint Protection 2012 SP1

January 28, 2013 // 0 Comments

You may have noticed some issues being reported with System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager deployments. It turns out that there were also some issues with the Linux/iOS Endpoint Protection agents. As a result, you might need to re-download your media. Check out this blog [...]

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Aidan Finn, IT Pro

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