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System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Released

The long awaited, best part of the System Center suite, the update to SMS, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 has reached RTM.

As usual, a 120-day trial version is available for download. No word on MVLS/MSDN/TechNet availability.

I'm spinning up a project shortly to deploy SCCM to replace Novell ZenWorks. Stay tuned for the trials and tribulations of that fun!

Exchange 2007 Update Rollup 4

Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 is now available. The rollups are cumulative, so you only need to install this one to catch up.

• Download Link
• List of Fixes

There is an issue noted that if deploying silently or through WSUS and a file needing to be replaced is in use. In this case some services for Exchange will be stopped and disabled. Check KB Article 940006 for details on the problem and fix.

More PowerShell One-Liners

A one-liner used today while fiddling around with a robocopy output from moving some PST files around. I wanted to take the messy robocopy log file and just extract the PST file names and paths from the log file (yes, I know, they could have used some of the robocopy switches like /NS /NJH /NJS, but they wanted the other info for other purposes --- all I wanted was the filenames).

A little PowerShell, combined with some .NET regex fun did the trick. The breakdown...

1. Get the text file contents
2. Grab only the lines with the format of \\.pst
3. Split those lines (to get rid of the whitespace and size output) at the "\\"
4. Add the path (which is all that is left over now in $1[1]) to a list variable $files, adding the \\ along the way.

get-content .\pstrobocopy.txt | where { $_  -match "\\\\.+?\.pst$" } ; foreach { $line = [regex]::split($_,'\\\\'); $files += "\\" + $line[1] }

Late Breaking: Citrix to acquire XenSource

Rumors are that Citrix will announce the acquisition of XenSource tomorrow. More details to follow.

Why? My take is that Citrix will use this to go head-to-head with VMWare on VDI. I don't think, however, that Citrix will turn this into a server virtualization battle with MS/VM to keep the good relations with Microsoft going.

But, once more details are posted tomorrow, we can speculate more on the future of the virtualization market.

The conspiracy nut in me thinks Citrix acquired XenSource as part of a bigger play to happen next year when Citrix gets swallowed up by MS. Think of it. MS works jointly with Xen, Citrix has the JTA with MS, so everyone is cool. One big synergistic play for MS to pick up Citrix and Xen in a single move soon.

What you already knew, email is stressful

A study being linked to all over the web today, has found in a small study group that "Email is the thing that now causes us the most problems in our working lives".

The frequency of email checks is also cited as an indication of a dependence on email and source of stress for people.

"They also found that employees working on a computer typically switched applications to view their emails as many as 30 or 40 times an hour, for anything from a few seconds to a minute. While half the participants said they checked more than once an hour and 35 per cent said they did so every 15 minutes, monitoring software fitted to their machines for the experiment showed it was more often."

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