The SCCM Guru webcast series sponsored by BDNA a few years ago was awesome! I was slammed with projects at the time, but I caught as many as I could and hoarded as much of the content as I could collect at the time, and of course got my t-shirt!
Of course, I either lost the jump drive where I had the content stored, left it behind on an old work computer, or more likely deleted the smaller stuff along with the large media files thinking this stuff is too valuable for them to let it vanish into the ether.
Granted, being centered on SCCM 2007, some of the content is dated. But there’s a ton of best practice stuff in there that is still relevant. I went to back and review some of it for an upcoming project last week. But alas, I could hardly find any of it… at first. I kept digging and uncovered most. The key was the first one. The others reveal other patterns and point out other missing content.
Host Page:
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/events-1/sccm-guru-webcast-survival-guide/
Title/Description:
SCCM Guru webcast collateral (PowerPoint decks, Q&As, scripts, etc.)
- Bad URL:
- Good URL:
- Comment:
- I reported this broken link in the MyITForum Bugs & Comments group.
Host Page:
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/community/groups/bdna/documents/
Title/Description:
Slide deck for Episode 3 – John Nelson
- Missing Content:
- Slide deck for Episode 3 – John Nelson
- Good URL:
- unable to locate
Host Page:
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/community/groups/bdna/documents/
Title/Description:
Slide deck for Episode 14 – Jeremy Young
- Missing Content:
- Slide deck for Episode 14 – Jeremy Young
- Good URL:
- unable to locate
- Workaround:
- I made snips while watching the replay. But there are supposedly substantive notes in the slides, so I’m still hoping to find the original slides.
- SCCM_GURU14_Webcast_JeremyYoung (1.2 MB PDF)
Host Page:
various – see Comments
Title/Description
Jeremy Young’s blog on MyITForum
- Bad URL:
- Good URL:
- Comments:
- Jeremy mentions blog posts in the webcast. Top hit on Google was an old TechNet post where I found the link above. A normal search on MyITForum didn’t help either. It was only by doing Google search on the verbatim words he spoke on the webcast that I found his blog.
Host Page:
various bad links in blog posts, e.g.
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/02/29/powershell-script-to-run-configmgr-task-sequence-on-demand/
Title/Description
monthly patch management task sequence
- Bad URL:
- Good URL:
Title/Description
Download Link
- Bad URL:
- Good URL:
- unable to locate
There are obvious patterns that should help resolve other links. Honestly, I started this post expecting that I would successfully use these pattern for some of the content downloads, but I’m having no joy there. This is just a post to document a few pieces I have found so far. If there’s an ongoing need, maybe a wiki would be better.
But my core motivation is to politely nudge MyITForum to try to help out with this. I know they’ve had their hands full, but we still need a lot of this valuable, albeit aging, content.
