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ConfigMgr – Support Announcements for February 2013

The ConfigMgr Team have just released their Support Announcement for this month (see full blog post below). As a quick summary SQL 2012 SP1 is now supported on the following: ConfigMgr 2007 SP2/ R3 (requires KB2676776) ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 (NOT … Continued

WMI List of WMIC CSProduct Get Name Results for SCCM

This page (sorted by Vendor and Model number) shows the results of running the WMIC CSProduct Get Name command from a Command Prompt to retrieve the model name from WMI. You can then use this in a SCCM Apply Driver … Continued

How do I get BGInfo to display the machine’s architecture?

I LOVE BGInfo as when you’re working with several VMs/ remote machines it can provide a wealth of information right there on the desktop so I can see at a glance a) that I’m on the right machine and b) … Continued

[Deployment] Watch out for systems starting to ship with AF Hard Disk Drives

OK this is a potential scary situation you could find yourself in without knowing it. I wasn’t aware until my good friend and fellow MVP Greg Ramsey of Dell told me about the new Advanced Format (AF 4k) drives that … Continued

[Win OS] How do I add an “Open Command Prompt here” entry to the right-click menu in Windows 2008?

You don’t have to. Simply hold the SHIFT key down before you right-click and you’ll see the “Open command window here” menu option appear on the right-click menu. If you want to make this more permanent [More…]