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Posts for year 2013, total posts 37
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Uploading a custom VHD to Azure with PowerShell and adding it to your VMs
Sure, it’s fun to go into Azure and see all of the cool supported operating system images you can have running in mere minutes. But it is even cooler to take your own internal server or data image and upload that to Azure to use in your VMs. It is even cooler to do it all with PowerShell!  If the demo gets a bit technical, be sure to skip to the end for my concluding notes.
Continue Reading...Azure Powershell - Current Storage Account error when making a new VM
I was trying to make a new Linux VM using the Azure PowerShell commandlet New-AzureQuickVM, which basically makes a VM very quickly for you using one of the images available in the catalog. Â However, I kept running into this message:
Continue Reading...SCCM SQL Query for SSD Drives
Recently at a client, a need arose to provide a report listing whether a workstation had an SSD or a spinning disk.
Continue Reading...SCCM OSD: The case of the nightmare desktop
Recently, a client has been mentioning some issues they’ve had when doing image testing on a new desktop model.  I came in to help sort out the issue, and it was quite an experience!  We received all sorts of errors, many were quite puzzling.  In the end, this desktop (the HP ProDesk 6oo G1 SFF / Small Form Factor) and the issues around it tested every element of my SCCM OSD Troubleshooting knowledge.
Continue Reading...New record for slowest speed of all time
I was wrong earlier.
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