System Center Orchestrator: Solving Return Data is blank
System Center Orchestrator–formerly Opalis Orchestrator– and now lovingly called SCORCH by its fans is a powerful automation tool, but there are a lot of gotcha’s that makes it difficult to begin rolling out in the environment.
Continue Reading...Part I : Building an AD Domain Testlab with DSC
Orchestrator and PowerShell - Solved: the execution of scripts is disabled on this system
System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis Orchestrator) is a wonderful tool for automating heavy lifting in your environment, like managing Exchange server Windows Updates, while respecting DAGs, or other situations with repetitive tasks that can take a lot of manual labor, so long as the logic for responding to particular circumstances are well understood.
Continue Reading...Solved: Getting a user's Distribution Group Memberships
It’s surprisingly hard to get back a listing of all of a particular user’s Exchange Distribution Group Memberships. The strange thing about this is that you can very easily get a list of all of a user’s AD Security Groups using
Continue Reading...Migrating to your own WordPress.org account - things that will suck and how to avoid them
I’ve recently been in the process of migrating my blog off of WordPress.com hosting to my own WordPress.org account.  I tried a few things, a number of which did not work well, and I hope to help you avoid them if you try the same thing too.
Continue Reading...Is your SCCM SQL stuck in Evaluation mode? Don't despair!
Have you ever wondered what happens when you install SCCM 2012 or 2007 on top of SQL and choose ‘Evaluation mode’, then forget to enter the SQL key?
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