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A while back i wrote a post about data deduplication in 2012.... generally a very good feature, but as that specific post talked about, there was a collection of .iso and compressed data where not only did dedup not save me anything, it actually used up more space in the dedup folder than the orginal…
Continue readingMissed this.... doesn't look like its on the public MS site as yet - but noticed that the entire system centre range with SP1 is available on TechNet downloads.... and looks like it has been since the 20/12/2012.... not sure if there is meant to be a stand-alone version of SP1 - but I would…
Continue readingAs some of you may have seen from a previous post, i purchased a Thecus N7700 pro NAS a few years back...... i was most unimpressed by this NAS. The performance was poor, the AD integration simply doesn't work, the iscsi is flaky and the support is non-existant...... So, when this NAS reached capacity, it…
Continue readingOne of the great things about the web is that it generally allows you to research a company before purchasing with them….. of course, not all companies have comments about them on the web – one of which, at least when we were building, was Beechwood homes ( http://www.beechwood.com.au/ ) …. So while I tried…
Continue readingGot a call from a client today who was concerned, because they were deploying SCEP, but it was not removing Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.0 or 12.1... At the time of writing, only certain products are uninstalled http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff823900.aspx The client installation checks for and uninstalls the following existing antimalware clients: Symantec Endpoint Protection version 11 Symantec…
Continue readingSo, we've almost been in our new house a year now - and things are slowly getting done. Based on the advice of an electrician mate, we went with a btcino home automation system..... suppoedly its one of the btter ones around.... i think because he's used to comparing it to the (seemingly) universally panned…
Continue readingI implemented SCCM 2012 for a client a last week and, as per our usual process, implemented an SCCM client health check script which runs as part of a computer start up script in a group policy object. Came back after a few days - nothing had updated.... "odd" I thought.... but this client had…
Continue readingWe've had a number of customers recently move to SCEP 2012 from other solutions, particularly mcafee, but also some symantec, sophos etc. These have generally been customers on an EA, with core cal already purchased and additionally , SCCM 2007 or 2012 already in place for deployment.... so for these enviornments, there is a cost…
Continue readingSo now that 2012 has been out for a while... im starting to see a bit more detail on certains features... in this case file de-duplication. I applied file deduplication to a drive we use called our "SOE" drive, which contains all the MS products, pre-prepared packages for SCCM, VHD (and vhdx) libraries etc.... a…
Continue readingwell, so much for "available to technet subscribers in mid november" - Exchange, Lync and Office 2013 are available on the technet downloads site now.... Exchange 2013 is kind of usless right now - as to interoperate with exchange 2010, SP3 is required ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996719(v=exchg.150).aspx ) - and SP3 isnt out yet - and according…
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