MDT Setup/Configure Process & Drivers

238 days ago

I’m currently working on putting together an MDT 2010 environment for a client who wants to be able to begin roll-outs of Windows 7 pretty soon after it is released…

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Posted by Mr-E at 11:20

Learn about Storage Technology

378 days ago

I came across this useful resource whilst spec’ing up some new servers for my employer – I needed to refer to this because I had not come into contact with “Nearline SAS” devices before and someone else in the organisation had suggested them….

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Posted by Mr-E at 16:23

New BIOS Sir?

417 days ago

I sometimes wonder what good things are bypassing me on the superduperhighway – that’s the problem when there’s just so much stuff out there…
Whilst watching Hak5’s roundup from CES

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Posted by Mr-E at 20:42

Windows VM Templates

484 days ago

Leo has written an excellent article that outlines the process to create small, properly offset aligned, windows templates…

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Posted by Mr-E at 16:28

SCCM 2007 and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit - Video Walkthrough

503 days ago

Here’s a nother useful link for information (and nice videos) of SCCm 2007 working with MDT 2008.

Take a look yourself here

Posted by Mr-E at 12:13

Simple, Scalable Deployment with BDD 2007

503 days ago

Amongst the mass of work I have at the moment, I’m looking at upgrading my companies implementation of BDD (Business Deployment Desktop) from BDD 2007 to MDT 2008 (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit), which will bring some benefits and officially support the deployment of servers through this technology.

In talking with one of the main engineers who manages the environment…

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Posted by Mr-E at 11:57

How to Install SCCM 2007 with A Clustered SQL Server

503 days ago

One of the limitations with SMS2003 (although I’m sure people worked around it) was that it didn’t support a clustered SQL back-end …

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Posted by Mr-E at 11:51

Enabling iSCSI Adapter on Broadcom 5708 on R805

511 days ago

I mostly work with data stores and servers that are Fibre channel connected, although my home setup uses iSCSI, however, I see the take-off of iSCSI increasing, particularly with virtualisation and so this article is useful to help configure iSCSI on a Dell R805 (the company I work at is just in the process of purchasing some of these boxes). Like Todd mentions…

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Posted by Mr-E at 11:04