Most people don’t think of cyberattackers as guys and gals in secret hideouts trying to infiltrate companies’ Windows 10 operating system deployment (OSD). A good Microsoft System Center Configuration Manger (SCCM) administrator does though. An attacker who compromises Windows…
At last week’s MMS conference in Minnesota, I attended a lot of amazing technical sessions about System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). My favorite, by far, was the technical session with the Microsoft SCCM Product Team. The product team was…
Some of the top enterprise systems management experts in the world recently joined forces in a lively roundtable discussion titled, “Accelerating Windows 10 OSD.” Luminaries included: Dan Richings, Director of Customer Experience, Adaptiva Jason Snook, Senior Product Manager, Flexera Software…
If you oversee SCCM, you are a huge part of your company’s security strategy, and you will become even more critical as your company deploys Windows 10. You’ll be expected to keep anti-virus and other security software…
When I first walked into the Adaptiva offices back in December I was struck by the number of awards for technical excellence that greeted me at the door. Today, I am pleased to announce that our company was recognized as…
A Certificate Upgrade Dilemma Last year, a customer of ours faced an almost impossible security challenge regarding certificate management. They were using SCCM 2007 with a PKI infrastructure and all the certificates required for the various functions of SCCM: IIS…
Microsoft Office 365 click-to-run technology is great for home users over the Internet, but introduces challenges for on-premise delivery in businesses with tools such as Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). This infographic shows an easy solution…
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a video is worth at least 1071 words—the word count of my blog about PowerShell Fusion. In this video, I show you a demonstration of how PowerShell Fusion works. You can…
A Complex Challenge to Simplify My friends tell me when I meet a challenge to call it an opportunity. That’s how I look at deploying and updating Office 365 using SCCM—an opportunity to make something that looks complex…