SCCM DP's and Riverbed.

I've tested SCCM and riverbed's together. River bed makes a huge impact to how we consider deploying software to remote sites.

Somewhere along the lines of 90% descrease in WAN traffic when deploying a large app over several PC's.

WMI Query for Microsoft Word 2010 or greater

Select * from Win32_Product where name  like "%Microsoft Office Word%" and version >= 14

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IBM please fix your Notes installer

During an upgrade you call MSI Custom Action  ibmUpdateRegForMultiUser
It tries to run in the User Context. The CA calls a UpgradeUtils.dll which must contain some code that when runs gets error 2

BUT!

Most installs of Notes are done under the system context hence the following error and the upgrade fails.

MSI ERROR: "UpgradeUtils/UpdateRegForMultiUser (Line 6743): Error - 'GetPropertyFromRegistry' for 'REGDATAPATHPROPERTY' failed with return code '2' - The system cannot find the file specified. 

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Citrix Access Gateway and Vmware Workstation

I found that if you try to access CAG while the Vmware Network adapters are still live it will misconfigure your CAG connection and you will not able to access all resources.

Disable any VMware network adapters before connecting to CAG and this should workaround your issue.

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Office 2010 installs Sharepoint components even when not enabled

I found that when you installed Office 2010 with the SP1 update it would install the Sharepoint component even when the component was disabled using a .MSP configuration file.

Microsoft acknowledges this as an issue but the fix isn't very clear.

What you need to do to resolve the issue at the package level is

• Download this update.
• Then unpack the EXE files into temp directory (use the /? to find out how to unpack the files)
• Next you need to copy the .MSP and .XML file in the office updates folder.
• Now copy the .DLL file in to the admin folder of your office install. 

Notes:

• This is only applicable for new Office 2010 SP1 installs not for existing installs
• This exact issue was mentioned in deployment jeopardy in Tech ED North America this year. 

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Members for a collection for a particular machine

I needed to see what collections had a membership for a machine

select
FullCol.CollectionId,
COL.Name from dbo.v_R_System r
join dbo.v_FullCollectionMembership FullCol on R.ResourceID = FullCol.ResourceID
join dbo.v_Collection COL on COL.CollectionID = FullCol.CollectionID
Where
R.Name0 = 'Machine'

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Zenithink C91 Upgrade

I just bought a Zenithink C91 Upgrade. I am now waiting for delivery.

In all honesty for $130 I am not expecting much at all.

Edit: it just arrived.. I'll post a review if enough people are interested in me reviewing one.. (leave me a comment if you want me to post a review of it)

I never knew that a application shortcut could map a drive

We came across something today where a user would  double click a shorcut and it would actually then map a network drive... weird?  Not really. Turns out this is actually by design. If you create a shortcut from a mapped network drive it will store the mapping information in the shortcut (try opening a .lnk in notepad).

more info:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/150604

Running multiple commands in SCCM ‘Run Command Line’ Task Sequence step from Danovich.com.au

Danovich shows you how you can run multiple commands from the one 'run command line' step in a task sequence.

Running multiple commands in SCCM ‘Run Command Line’ Task Sequence step