OSD Illustrator

this is a totally awesome tool by Tim Murgent and  allows you to explore the xml syntax of the OSD file in an interactive way.

Very very Cool…

See it here

Sequencer Package Accelerator

As it says above:

Check out this blog on how to use it:

http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/kkaminski/default.aspx

Sequencing Office

I saw this a few years ago, but found it again tonight! So as a reminder to myself and for anyone else that cares, here is the:

SoftGrid: Sequencing Office Professional 2007 in 30 easy steps

App-V Resources list

Aaron Parker  http://blog.stealthpuppy.com/

Tim Murgent http://tmurgent.com/

Big Hat Group http://bighatgroup.com/

Wannabe Sequencer http://www.mitoonline.net/appv/?page_id=470

There are some recipes on the above site

More recipes

http://joshuasmueller.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/app-v-recipe-sccm-2007-console/ 

Softgrid blog http://www.softgridblog.com/

System Center Operations Manager 2012 Release Candidate : Infrastructure and Network monitoring and Topology changes

 

I found the following article about Infrastructure and Network Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2012 Release Candidate really interesting on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Blog and thought it would be worth reading.

With the removal  of the RMS role there is quite a fundamental change in the setup of Ops Manager topology. to find out more about the topology changes have a look at the following article:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2011/08/22/topology-changes-in-system-center-2012-operations-manager-overview.aspx

Desktop Management blogs

I was looking for some App-V stuff and found this list of blogs. So I thought I would plagiarise them

App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/appv/
AVIcode Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/avicode
ConfigMgr Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/
DPM Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/
MED-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/medv/
OOB Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/oob/
Opalis Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/opalis
Orchestrator Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/
OpsMgr Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/
SCMDM Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/mdm/
SCVMM Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm
Server App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/serverappv
Service Manager Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager
System Center Essentials Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenteressentials
WSUS Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/sus/

Source:The Microsoft Application Virtualization Blog