awesome. Thank you Josh.
With most SharePoint development being done in VMs, it is useful to have a set of sysprepped base VMs that can be cloned at any time to create a new environment, whether it be for a new project, to test some tool or software, or whatever. Sysprep is a great tool [...]
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rwhitworth
who has written 142 posts for Rickey Whitworth's Blog.
Jun
22
2010
22
2010
Creating a cloneable SharePoint 2010 Development Environment with PowerShell, Windows Sysprep, and SQL Server 2008 R2 Sysprep – Overview
May
21
2010
21
2010
Writing Management Packs for SCOM: A more robust Hyper-V MP – Xplat Xperts
Have you ever been looking at a management pack and wishing it was collecting just a little more information for you? You’re not the only one, there are quite a few people who write MPs from scratch to support applications they are running, but there are more who are still a little leery of going [...]
May
18
2010
18
2010
SystemCentered Reporting Management Pack – SCOM 2007 R2 Performance Reports
This is the introductory release of the SystemCentered Reporting Management Pack (version 1.0). The purpose of these reports are to provide SCOM users and administrators easy access to performance information in the datawarehouse.
When making a report, I have a few key rules to ensure an effective report:
Try to keep all vital information on [...]
May
18
2010
18
2010
Creating a Custom Report for SCOM 2007 R2 with SQL 2008 reporting in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Most of the times we can rely on the more general reporting features delivered with SCOM 2007 R2 for reporting purposes. But when you want to design a really nice looking report which is much easier to generate and target you need to dive into report designer or even the even more flexible Visual Studio [...]
May
3
2010
3
2010
System Center Operations Manager : New Beta AEM\DEM Reports
This article is almost two years old. I am linking it because at this point it is the only AEM reports I have been able to find. After importing the AEM management pack, I do not see any reports by default.
As part of OpsMgr 2007 R2 and Desktop Error Monitoring 3.5 (DEM) we will be [...]
May
3
2010
3
2010
CTX118226 – User Client Computer Profile is not Loaded Properly when Single Sign-on is Enabled – Citrix Knowledge Center
We’ve had what appears to be an increase in roaming profile problems over the last several months. Reading this article, it may be tied to the version of the citrix client running on the Windows XP machines.
When running ICA Client version 10.200 and later on Windows XP, any service pack, a user logon does [...]
Apr
22
2010
22
2010
xSNMP Management Pack Suite Version 1.1.0 (Beta) « Operating-Quadrant
I need to check this out
After weeks of pilot testing, the xSNMP Suite version 1.1.0 is ready for public beta release. In addition to some bug fixes and feature enhancements, this release includes four completely new management packs:
xSNMP Juniper-NetScreen MP: Implements comprehensive monitoring of NetScreen firewall devices
xSNMP NetApp MP: Implements comprehensive monitoring of [...]
Apr
14
2010
14
2010
Utility Spotlight: Screenrecorder
Whether you are having problems yourself getting something to work correctly on your computer and are working with tech support, or you’re trying to solve such problems for your customers, friends, or your Mom, you have probably spent hours describing or explaining events over and over again in an effort to deal with the lack [...]
Apr
13
2010
13
2010
PointBridge Blogs – Office 2010 Wave
In previous versions of SharePoint it was impossible to add corners to a Web Part with just CSS (unless you were building sites for only the latest browsers). The best way was to style a container DIV on the Page Layout and put a Web Part Zone inside. Then, a Web Part in that zone [...]
Apr
13
2010
13
2010
PointBridge Blogs – Changing the background colors in SharePoint also changes the gradient
The backgrounds in SharePoint 2010 were designed to allow end users to change gradients by simply picking solid colors on the settings page. For example if you choose an orange background color the result is a fade from orange to lighter orange. The change can be very subtle but is an effective way to create [...]