If you are working as a sysadmin and are working with Hyper-V you may be eligible for the Altaro’s great Christmas giveaway of 50 free licenses for Altaro’s Oops!Backup. http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/50-free-pc-backup-licenses-for-all-hyper-v-admins/ All you need to do is to fill out the form (name, email and a screenshot of your Hyper-V manager), you sadly need to use a “company” email but other than that it worked without a glitch and I got my 50 licenses within 1 hour. Oops!Backup is a basic though fairly full featured backup software solution, it’s aim seem to be end users so it’s very simple to use and setup, but with a bit of tweaking you can configure it somewhat for advanced use also. I’ll see about creating a small walk through video if I can get myself into gear 😐 A few screenshots;

An odd SCCM bug, some of our DP (Distribution Points) recently stopped working, the Task Sequence would hang during the “Installing Updates” step and would never finish..  Now the updates (files/packages) were all there and refreshing them did nothing to resolve the issue – at the end one of our external consultants pointed me to a hotfix kb2509007 which quickly resolved the issue (thanks to Thomas Marchussen, Edgmo).

Deployment would just get stuck here and never finish.

Odd and annoying problem which caused a lot of wasted time 🙁 – however the patch once applied and replicated worked like a charm.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2509007

Keywords; Sccm 2007, Updates, Stuck, Hung, Installing, Windows, Microsoft

You may have heard about the case where a bunch of UDID’s were leaked on the net, supposedly these was “stolen/hacked” from a FBI agents laptop.

Anyhow, here is how to check if your device was on the list;
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/04/heres-check-apple-device-udid-compromised-antisec-leak/

Get/find your UDID;
http://whatsmyudid.com/

What is a UDID;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=UDID