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#MVPDays – Storage Spaces Direct – Getting your feet wet

#MVPDays – Storage Spaces Direct – Getting your feet wet

Mar 15, 2017 | , , , , | 0 |

Today at the #MVPDays Vancouver we talked to people who had never heard of Microsoft Storage Spaces Direction (S2D). It’s hard to believe, but yes there are people out there that haven’t had the chance to get up to date on the latest Windows Server 2016 Operating System. This is usually due to meetings, ongoing projects and running older version of the Windows OS. So what were the big take aways from the session?

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Opening/Upgrading SCCM 2012 R2 PowerShell

Opening/Upgrading SCCM 2012 R2 PowerShell

Mar 13, 2017 | , , | 0 |

Nothing truly new here, but it is a new year and a new environment for me. I’ve just sat down at my seat at a customer’s location and wanted to inventory a bunch of things inside their System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 CU3 environment. Regardless it’s older and we’re in the process of migrating to Configuration Manager 2016! Exciting times ahead! In any case, I installed the Configuration Manager 2012 R2 console on my Windows 7 laptop (64-bit). See where things are going. We’re not running the latest and greatest… yet 😉

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GPO/GPP – Control the Local Administrators Group

GPO/GPP – Control the Local Administrators Group

Feb 11, 2017 | | 4 |

One of the issues that data center or even any Windows Administrator has is managing the local administrators group on each and every one of their domain members. There is a lovely security setting that has been around for many years, Restricted Groups, which can be controlled via local security policies of via GPO. This works, but has a few pitfalls as you’ve probably run into once in a while. Keep reading to see how you can solve some of them with Group Policy Preferences.

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SCCM – Using Multiple SUPs, but clients aren’t switching

SCCM – Using Multiple SUPs, but clients aren’t switching

Feb 2, 2017 | , , | 1 |

One of the issues I’ve come across is using Configuration Managers (2012 R2+) feature of being able to deploy multiple Software Update Points (SUP) within a site. This scenario is essentially to avoid using traditional network load balancing (NLB) and offload the work to the clients. One would think, if one SUP is not available it’s pretty simple, switch to the next one in the list. Well this doesn’t always happen as one may expect. Why?

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Configuring Multiple Software Update Points (SUP) in SCCM

Configuring Multiple Software Update Points (SUP) in SCCM

Jan 26, 2017 | , , | 1 |

I was working on a SCCM deployment where there was already one existing Software Update Point (SUP). Due to new firewall restrictions, a few new SUPs were required. Microsoft has changed their best practices with SCCM in regards to using multiple SUPs. The best practice is to share the WSUS Database (SUSDB) and the WSUS content directory. This cuts down on a lot of space, replication and administrative issues.

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