Joey Faulk http://joeyfaulk.org Follower of Jesus, Husband, Father, Information Technology Professional...in that order. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:28:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 K5 Rewire Part One http://joeyfaulk.org/2012/01/19/k5-rewire-part-one/ http://joeyfaulk.org/2012/01/19/k5-rewire-part-one/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:40:00 +0000 Joey http://joeyfaulk.org/?p=28 I’m rewiring my Blazer with a harness from Painless Performance. I’ve done an engine swap, and just do not need many of the wires left over. Plus, it’s ugly. If the rewire job itself wasn’t enough, I’m also putting in a custom dash from DIY4X, new gauges from Auto Meter and a new air conditioning and heating system from Vintage Air. The first thing I did was take some “before” pictures of the interior. As you can see my dash is pretty standard other than my 12V outlets and my aftermarket head unit.

I’m taking my time on this build so I can “do it right.” I’ll be posting more pictures and a bit of commentary as I go along. Thanks for reading!

 

]]> http://joeyfaulk.org/2012/01/19/k5-rewire-part-one/feed/ 2 SCCM 2012 Install and Training http://joeyfaulk.org/2012/01/19/sccm-2012-install/ http://joeyfaulk.org/2012/01/19/sccm-2012-install/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:21:57 +0000 Joey http://joeyfaulk.org/?p=22 This past Tuesday was break through day in my office, as I watched the successful initial installation of System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (RC) unfold on my monitor. YES! In my quest for a central management strategy for my organization I have come to the testing phase of the release candidate (RC). I finally found a guide to help me set up this BEAST. Think of SCCM 2012 as a part of an information management one stop shop. I am still working on the configuration options. This is one of the most in depth applications I have ever installed and configured. I hope it will be proportionally useful. The guide is over at Windows-Noob. Props to that dude for putting this together. I will come back later with more updates on configuration and functionality.

Another viable option for checking out the functionality of of the entire system Center 2012 Suite is over at the TechNet Virtual Labs. There is no long drawn out installation…you just log in and use the software by walking through the step by step lab. You can use it in 90 minute blocks. if you prefer to get right to it, I recommend this option.

There is also a “hydration kit” out for the recently released RC2 of the System Center 2012 Suite.

Hydration means a fully automated build of  a complete Lab environment for Hyper-V or VMware. Here is a download for deploying a complete ConfigMgr 2012 RC2 infrastructure: One Domain Controller and one ConfigMgr 2012 RC2 member server – Including pre-requisites like .Net Framework, SQL 2008 R2 SP1 CU4 and IIS – All fully automated.

Here is the link for that over at deployment research. I will attempt this soon. It involves some powershell commands, but all in all seems to be way less setup that what I went through on RC1.

I am on my way to being an Administrator of a game changing set of tools for managing an IT infrastructure. I think it’s pretty cool.

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There’s more to come after I scratch my head and focus a bit on asthetics and topics.  Until then sit on the edge of your seat ;-) and follow me on twitter @JoeyFaulk

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