Remove old Active Directory computer accounts from SCCM

A common issue in IT organizations is that the removal of computer objects is not done regularly. While I’ve presented scripts for removing old computer accounts from Active Directory, I’ve recently had to extend the removal of legacy computers into other systems such as SCCM. Because SCCM dynamically discovers computers, but does not remove them … Read more

Steel Doesn’t Float

At a recent Toronto VMware User Group I was inspired by a comment made during Mike Laverick’s keynote session. The gist of the remark was around how a ship is not really designed to float based on it’s materials, but in the way it’s constructed by using ballasts for displacement. I’d like to expand a … Read more

Exchange 2010 SP2 and Citrix Netscalers – SSL gotcha

This is a quick note about a real issue that I ran into very recently. With the Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP2 update there are a number of things to be careful of. With any of the major rollups and service packs, there are often default configuration settings which are re-enabled as a part of the … Read more