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System Center News |
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System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 has gone RTM! |
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by Rod Trent - 2/20/2008 |
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System Center Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM) 2008 has gone RTM! |
System Center Configuration Manager |
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Importing Non-Microsoft License Data into the Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 Site Database |
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by Jeff Gilbert - 7/18/2008 |
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I'm updating the official documentation for this right now, but since there seems to be a lot of confusion about this process, I figured I'd post here as well. |
SMS 2003 |
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WQL - Identifying Clients requiring Adobe Acrobat and Reader 8.1.2 Security Update 1 |
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by Andrew Berges - 7/15/2008 |
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After reading a post on the SANS ISC weblog, I thought I would provide the WQL I'm currently using in SMS to deploy the Adobe Acrobat and Reader 8.1.2 security update. |
SMS 2.x |
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SMS Exclusions By MAC Address |
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by Don Hite - 8/16/2007 |
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In SMS 2003 as well as SMS 2.0 you can exclude resources from being discovered by adding the machine names... |
SMS 1.2 |
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Microsoft Systems Management Server Lifecycle Support Calendar |
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by Don Hite - 7/26/2007 |
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Here you will find information about the lifecycle support for Microsoft Systems Management Server. |
App-V (formerly SoftGrid) |
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Forum Stories: sequencer workstation requirements |
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by Rod Trent - 6/30/2008 |
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It is suggested to sequence on a machine that is the lowest common denominator for the target client. Do we need to keep Windows security updates updated on the sequencing machine? |
System Center Operations Manager |
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Operations Manager 2007 cmdlet approve-agentpendingaction |
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by Scott Moss - 7/18/2008 |
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The approve-agentpendingaction cmdlet approves the specified agent pending action. |
MOM |
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Mom 2005 Database Migration Migraine |
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by Scott Moss - 6/2/2008 |
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Prior to MMS 2008 we migrated our production MOM 2005 environment to a new SQL 2005 cluster. A week and a half after the migration we noticed that our nightly maintenance mode scripts were starting to fail. |
System Center Essentials |
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vPro Client Management with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and System Center Essentials (SCE) |
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by Matt Royer - 7/10/2008 |
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Did you know that MS System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and System Center Essentials (SCE) have support for vPro Client management through the use of the Intel Client Manageability Pack for SCOM & SCE? |
Scripting |
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Freeware Utility To Convert VB Scripts To Executables |
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by Don Hite - 7/18/2008 |
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VbsToExe is a command line application that converts VBScript files into executables. |
Windows PowerShell |
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My First PowerShell Script |
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by Christopher Stauffer - 7/18/2008 |
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Here is my first powershell script. |
Software Management |
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Troubleshooting 301 - Finding a needle (bad program) in a haystack (list of 150 programs) in 7 tries |
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by John Nelson - 7/18/2008 |
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The problem goes like this: There's one program somewhere on your machine that's conflicting with another and causing CPU spikes and bringing the computer to a standstill, but you don't know which one. |
SMS Installer |
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Export Active Directory Lists - updated |
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by Dave Ferraro - 6/9/2008 |
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Pretty easy to export a single list from AD using VB and LDAP calls. But what about nested lists and users in those nested lists? |
Patch Management |
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How to Manage Security Updates in ConfigMgr - Introduction |
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by Jason Condo - 7/15/2008 |
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In my consulting, one of the questions that I often get surrounds how to manage Software Updates in Configuration Manager. |
Security |
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Rogue System Detection 2.0 Update |
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by Andrew Berges - 7/15/2008 |
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Despite my HIPS exclusion to completely ignore port scans, I am still was bombarded with alerts for a TCP port scan. |
Windows |
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Netbios & the Vista upgrade saga |
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by Ian Lockhart - 7/17/2008 |
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Caught up with an old friend the other day and she started to tell me about a problem she'd been experiencing since upgrading her laptop to Vista. |
Windows Mobile |
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Facebook for Windows Mobile |
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by Rod Trent - 7/7/2008 |
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FriendMobilizer, a free application for Windows Smartphones and Pocket PC's that puts Facebook into the palm of your hand. |
SQL Server |
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SQL Query Get Machine and User Information From A Specified Collection |
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by Don Hite - 7/17/2008 |
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This SQL query will return machine and user information from a specified collection. |
Exchange Server |
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PowerShell cmdlets to work with Distribution group in Exchange 2007 - Becareful the difference between AD and Exchange |
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by Ying Li - 5/13/2008 |
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Here are a few cmdlets to work with distribution groups in Exchange 2007.
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Small Business Server |
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Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer |
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by Rod Trent - 10/17/2007 |
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The Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer examines a server that is running Windows Small Business Server 2003 (Windows SBS) and presents a list of information and errors that administrators should review. |
Web Technologies |
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Creating A Web Report To Get Machine and User Information From A Specified Collection |
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by Don Hite - 7/16/2008 |
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This post is based on a previous post entitled: SQL Query Get Machine and User Information From Specified Collection which was a SQL query that would return machine and user information from a specified collection. |
Sharepoint |
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Why I can't open my sharepoint site on sharepoint server - Local Access Permission in DCOM |
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by Ying Li - 5/5/2008 |
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Recently I am working on to build a SharePoint staging environment for my company. This is a brand new staging environment. So I created the AD accounts and did all those setspn, account delegation stuff. Created the sites/site collections following our build docs. |
Active Directory and Group Policy |
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Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions Updated |
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by Ronni Pedersen - 7/9/2008 |
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A few days ago Microsoft released a new version of the Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions. |
Microsoft Office |
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Outlook 2003 - Locally saved .oft Organizational Forms Library forms cannot be opened |
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by Sherry Kissinger - 7/14/2008 |
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Outlook 2003, New, Form, Choose Form, from Organizational Forms Library, you pick a form and it Opens fine. You choose File, Save As, and save the form as an .oft file locally. Subsequent attempts to double-click the form from the local location result in an error. |
Macintosh-Apple |
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PowerPoint 2008 for Mac |
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by Joseph Hinkle - 2/20/2008 |
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I just finished up sanitizing a presentation about basic SMS software distribution troubleshooting that I created for our help desk at work. |
Hardware and Gadgets |
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iPhone insecurity |
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by John Gormly - 7/14/2008 |
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As I’m reading the news this morning watching the folks gather in line for the iPhone 3G (keep in mind the update is not due until 7/11…would you park for a week just to be one of the first???), I’m once again drawn to the marketing hype that is Apple, and Apple at it’s finest. |
Networking |
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NetMon 3.2b is out |
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by Paul Strain - 6/19/2008 |
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... and it rocks. Some quick initial testing shows that this tool finally has real value on a Windows system. |
Support Management |
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ITIL V3: A Set of Best Practices for Managing Your IT Services |
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by Alan Koch - 5/6/2008 |
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Looking for ways to enhance customer service and cut waiting times for responses, ITIL V3 has emerged as a vital methodology for businesses looking to revamp their service processes. |
Miscellaneous |
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Looking for Green products? |
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by Rod Trent - 7/14/2008 |
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EPEAT is a system to help purchasers in the public and private sectors evaluate, compare and select desktop computers, notebooks and monitors based on their environmental attributes. |
SMS Alliance |
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Grant Thornton LLP chooses Sybase iAnywhere to manage 3000 mobile devices |
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by Rod Trent - 4/30/2007 |
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US Member Firm of Global Accounting, Tax and Business Advisory Organization Leverages Information Anywhere Suite to Streamline Desktop and Mobile Laptop Management. |
Altiris |
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Getting the Most of Altiris Notification Server Part II - Randomize Weekly and Monthly Inventories |
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by Reed Porter - 9/4/2007 |
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In Part I we randomized daily inventories so they ran randomly within a 4 hour window. In Part II we'll take that a step further by randomizing which day Weekly or Monthly inventories run and give them a 4 hour window. |
Virtualization |
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SCCM SP1 & WS-MAN Translator: How vPro firmware versions less than 3.2.1 are supported |
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by Matt Royer - 7/16/2008 |
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If Microsoft only natively supports vPro clients 3.2.1 or higher, you may be asking how vPro clients that are running firmware versions 2.x, 3.0, and 3.1 are supported. |
Microsoft Deployment |
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Importing Drivers Fails in ConfigMgr 2007 |
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by Chris Summers - 7/17/2008 |
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This is probably a rare issue but I'm going to post about it since I didn't quickly find anything on the web about this. |
System Center Mobile Device Manager |
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SCMDM 2008 Management Pack for SCOM 2007 |
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by Marco Nielsen - 7/15/2008 |
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This appears to be "silently" released almost 2 weeks ago, but haven't seen much posted about it so far. |
