Damien Flynn has a good article on Petri about using System Centre Update Publisher (SCUP) to deploy the SCCM client with WSUS.

Damien Flynn follows up with part two of expanding WSUS.

Kristian Nese has a useful blog post on how to deploy SOFS using SCVMM.

Lai Yoong Seng has a post about creating a Linux VM template for Hyper-V.

This is a handy one, if you’ve noticed the difference between Task Manager on Windows 8 vs Server 2012 with missing disk graphs then Hans Vredevoort has the details on how to bring them back.

Chris M Evans over at ArchitectingIT has a good post on why he doesn’t want to see a ten year old flash array. I honestly don’t think to many organisations really keep ancient arrays around as their primary storage array, the support costs alone would be astronomical.

Speaking of flash, the VMware vSphere blog has a useful post on VSAN hardware guidance with SSDs. I’ve linked to the first part in the series. I think I’ll be holding off till the next generation of servers come out, sometime this year (2014).

With all the brouhaha about VSAN (and I admit I’m looking very hard at it and how much it would cost to get a nice home lab setup) the requirement for one SSD per disk group should show the importance of SSD reliability. If you plan on using consumer grade SSDs or SSDs not from your hardware OEM (and even then) you are going to want to test them, hard. With that I would really recommend reading the “Analysis of SSD Reliability during power-outages” report. I hope more tests like these are performed.

Jeff Wouters has a handy script to find empty Active Directory groups.

Another good one from Jeff Wouters, this time to find the users in the “authoritative groups”. I believe the authoritative groups Jeff is referencing are the BUILTIN groups.

If you are looking to play tricks on your coworkers or have a legitimate reason to eject the CD-ROM drive, PowerShell Magazine have you covered.

Jeffery Hicks at The Lonely Administrator has posted the PowerShell scripts he uses to clean out his TEMP files. I’m a big believer in reading scripts to keep your language skills sharp so even if you have no need for the functions it is a worthwhile read.

One to look out for those of you with IIS based websites, Update decreases the page load time of web sites that are hosted on Windows 7-based and Windows Server 2008 R2-based web servers.

I’m sure we’ve all see the trust relationship error with Windows computers however KB 2914472 details that this can be caused by an IIS issue. A hotfix is referenced.

For you Hyper-V and SCOM users (though I suppose if you use Hyper-V you have to use SCOM) there is a new version of the Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions for R2.