if you missed it, the book professional mom 2005, sms and wsus is finally on the shelf. i'm still waiting on my complimentary copy so i'm not sure whether or not my name is actually on it. i don't think they put my picture on it. i can only guess that it would have made the other authors look terrible in contrast. just kidding... i don't know why and am not going to speculate (doubt that'll stop you though).
i contributed about four chapters to it. if you happen to read it, take a guess at which are mine... i'd be curious to know if there's a visible difference in writing style from author to author or if the editors really are gods. by the way, pete, one of the guys at momresources.org, was kind enough to write up a book review.
UPDATE: john marcum sent me a kind email to let me know about a problem he ran into with preloadpkgonsite.exe in the new SCCM Toolkit V2 where under certain conditions, packages will not uncompress. if you are using the v2 toolkit, PLEASE read this blog post before proceeding. here’s a scenario that came up on the mssms@lists.myitforum.com mailing list. when confronted with a situation of large packages and wan links, it’s generally best to get the data to the other location without going over the wire. in this case, 75gb. :/ the “how” you get the files there is really not the most important thing to worry about. once they’re there and moved to the appropriate location, preloadpkgonsite.exe is required to install the compressed source files. once done, a status message goes back to the parent server which should stop the upstream server from copying the package source files over the wan to the child site. anyway, if it’s a relatively small amount of packages, you can
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