Archive for August, 2012

No more shortcuts on the desktop for web pages

Some times it feels like I just stumble upon features that I love in Windows 8, the new version of Windows, and it’s default web browser Internet Explorer. This might not be my most technical blog post of all time but it is about a so simple feature that I...

Get-LocalDriveWithMostFreeSpace

During my scripts that downloads all TechEd sessions (found here) I created a function to find the local drive with the most free space in order to know where to store all those videos. One commenter at one post mentions that the videos from just TechEd North America ended up...

Get-FileHash

While developing a larger script I had to create a function in PowerShell to verify a file hash (aka file checksum). I didn’t really want to use the FCIV feature from Microsoft since I would be bound to have that binary downloaded since it is not part of the OS....

Windows 8 download live on MSDN

Just noticed, Windows 8 is now available for download from the MSDN website.

‘Upgrade’ is not a valid value for setting ‘ACTION’. Unattended installation SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 (SP2)

During development of my hydration kit for System Center 2012 SP1 CTP2 I had to install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 unattended for the installation of Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 CTP2. Everything was just fine and I was able to use the /extract command to extract the installation files...

System Center 2012 SP1 CTP2 OpsMgr, SvcMgr and Orchestrator Hydration Kit

Some time ago I got inspiration to create a Hydration Kit (thanks to my college Johan Arwidmark at Deployment Research). However not for ConfigMgr as he did but rather the whole System Center 2012 suite. I know the System Center Universal Installer does exist but it leaves some… whishes… unanswered...