Fortinet Firewall Training

I was looking around at different firewalls and realized that Fortinet is one that I don’t know a whole lot about. After doing some digging, I uncovered quite a few YouTube training videos that could help those if you interested,…

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System Center Orchestrator High-Availability Patching

I was recently asked about patching in regards to Microsoft System Center Orchestrator because I was able to demo how to automate certain processes in regards to patching, and I was asked “Well, what about if I wanted to automate…

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Free E-Book: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2014

Microsoft Press has released a new eBook Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2014, see the link below! Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2014 : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2014/04/02/free-ebook-introducing-microsoft-sql-server-2014.aspx

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MDT customsettings.ini Switches

I have spent a lot of time working with MDT and figuring out quite a bit of command switches in order to manipulate the deployment outcome. I listed them below. I will keep adding to this list, and if anyone…

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“A fatal error occurred while trying to sysprep the machine” error – Fix

Windows has a limitation of only allowing a machine to be sysprepped 3 times until you have to redeploy the operating system clean. I have spent a greater part of the past few years creating images, so I have run into…

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Add VMware NIC drivers to your SCCM boot image

With the expansion of Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager, I have worked with quite a few people that are either mixing their virtual environment with VMware and Hyper-V or moving off of VMware all together. Intermixing System Center products does…

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Mapping the iSCSI Initiator with PowerShell

I recently wanted to create a task sequence in MDT that would build all of my Hyper-V hosts and map the iSCSI connection and connect the storage on its own. After digging around and testing several methods, I thought that the best…

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How to change the listening port for Remote Desktop

Sometimes it is required to edit the Remote Desktop listening port for a specific machine, or machines to accommodate firewall paths, deployment methods, or for various other reasons. In order to change change the port that Remote Desktop listens on,…

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Enabling Bitlocker with SCCM

Companies are starting to take a look and utilize Bitlocker more often now. I have had many customers ask me about Bitlocker and what the easiest way to deploy it companywide would be. Usually when I am having discussions with…

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