System Center News |
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| R2 Releases! – with Updated Documentation |
| by Rod Trent - 8/29/2008 |
| The Release 2 add-on for Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 is released. Keep an eye on it being announced on the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Web site with details of how to download it. |
System Center Configuration Manager |
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| Error Codes |
| by Jason Sandys - 9/5/2008 |
| Administrators new to System Center Configuration Manager (and SMS) are often befuddled by return/error codes from programs delivered using an advertisement. |
SMS 2003 |
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| Error Codes |
| by Jason Sandys - 9/5/2008 |
| Administrators new to System Center Configuration Manager (and SMS) are often befuddled by return/error codes from programs delivered using an advertisement. |
SMS 2.x |
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| SMS Exclusions By MAC Address |
| by Don Hite - 8/16/2007 |
| 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 |
| by Don Hite - 7/26/2007 |
| Here you will find information about the lifecycle support for Microsoft Systems Management Server. |
App-V (formerly SoftGrid) |
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| Time to get generous with ConfigMgr R2 client cache sizes |
| by Troy Wilch - 9/3/2008 |
| One of the nice things about being a consultant is gaining collective knowledge in how organizations run and operate their SMS/ConfigMgr environments. One of the things I run across from time and time again is, folks are stingy when it comes to client cache sizes. |
System Center Operations Manager |
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| Microsoft has created a new UI tool to make obtaining mass certificates easy |
| by Rod Trent - 8/25/2008 |
| Here at OpsMgr, we understand the pain that you have to go through to configure certificate authentication to deploy non-domain joined agents. There are many things we've provided for you to make obtaining certificates easier. |
MOM |
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| Mom 2005 Database Migration Migraine |
| by Scott Moss - 6/2/2008 |
| 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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| With Hotfix OpsMgr 2007 and Essentials 2007 now supports installation on Windows 2008 |
| by Rod Trent - 7/28/2008 |
| This hotfix provides support to install Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 or Essentials 2007 Service Pack 1 on a Windows Server 2008-based computer. |
Scripting |
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| Greg Shields Best Configuration Manager Queries Part 1 And 2 |
| by Don Hite - 9/5/2008 |
| Readers submit more of their prized queries for everything from checking maintenance windows to deploying software. |
Windows PowerShell |
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| PowerShell script to remove virtual machine from VMWare Infrastructure |
| by Ying Li - 8/20/2008 |
| Forget about the trip to Las Vegas I mentioned before, I'm starting to like VMWare VI Toolkit the more I use it! |
Software Management |
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| Windows Installer 4.5 New And Improved Features |
| by Don Hite - 7/21/2008 |
| With the release of Microsoft Windows Installer version 4.5 many new and improved features have been added and are listed here... |
SMS Installer |
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| Export Active Directory Lists - updated |
| by Dave Ferraro - 6/9/2008 |
| 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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| Collection Query to show all clients where authorized patches are missing (SMS2003 ITMU) |
| by roger zander - 7/29/2008 |
| This SMS2003 Collection-Query (WQL) shows all clients where authorized security patches (authorize date > 15 days) are "applicable". |
Security |
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| SQL Query To List Add And Remove Programs For A Specified Machine Excluding Updates And Hot Fixes |
| by Don Hite - 8/28/2008 |
| This SQL Query will allow you to list the installed applications registered in the Add and Remove Applications applet for a specified machine excluding those applications such as Security Updates and Hot fixes and other system updates. |
Windows |
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| Installing Windows Live Products on Server 2008 |
| by Stuart James - 8/19/2008 |
| Having just installed Server 2008 64-bit on my laptop (mainly for Hyper-V) I'm now trying to make it as much like a desktop as possible. One thing that doesn't work straight away is Windows Live products, as the standard wrapper like installer prevents installation. |
Windows Mobile |
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| Windows Mobile 6.1 Upgrades Now Available - Sept 3, 2008 |
| by Marco Nielsen - 9/3/2008 |
| I've tried to compile a list of which devices now have official supported upgrades available for them. This may be useful for many of you as well. |
SQL Server |
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| SMS 2003 - Query to pull logged on user records from all sources |
| by John Nelson - 8/29/2008 |
| I was trolling the forums lately on MyITForm.com and was reading some conversations about logged on user records. It made me think of all the sources where you could get that information. |
Exchange Server |
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| Export the members of an exchange distribution list to Excel |
| by Hector Cortez - 7/28/2008 |
| Handy if you ever need to copy distribution groups. |
Small Business Server |
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| Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer |
| by Rod Trent - 10/17/2007 |
| 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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| Setting up a local weather IE8 web slice |
| by Rod Trent - 9/2/2008 |
| The IE8 add-on directory offers a weather web-slice, but only for the Seattle, WA area. So, how do you setup a web-slice for your local weather? |
Sharepoint |
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| SharePoint 2007 - Workflows - URL Woes |
| by Mike Lucero - 7/24/2008 |
| I'm sure that there are people out there who have had this problem as I've seen a LOT of posts asking about the problems with this particular workflow lookup item, but no complete solutions which take into considerations one of the most common problems in SharePoint naming: spaces. |
Active Directory and Group Policy |
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| Email Users when password is about to expire |
| by Ron Crumbaker - 8/20/2008 |
| Let your users know when their password is about to expire using the email system. |
Microsoft Office |
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| Mailto: File Association Missing |
| by Jason Sandys - 7/25/2008 |
| I Am Better Than You...That's what I like to tell a system when I solve a particularly troublesome problem; sometimes I even pound on my chest. I know: what a geek. |
Macintosh-Apple |
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| PowerPoint 2008 for Mac |
| by Joseph Hinkle - 2/20/2008 |
| 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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| HP Mobile Messenger |
| by John Gormly - 9/3/2008 |
| Call me fickle…but…the alerts going off so low you can barely here it unless you’re actually carrying the device, and the battery life…(it has a spec’d battery of 1940mAh in it)…is really grating on my nerves. |
Networking |
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| Internet Connectivity Tools |
| by Don Hite - 8/5/2008 |
| Provided here you will find links to Internet connectivity tools that will allow you to show your IP address as it appears on the internet as well as a visual traceroute web applet, a geographical Where am I web applet and a visual bandwidth tester. |
Support Management |
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| Windows Server 2008 Learning Snacks |
| by Don Hite - 8/11/2008 |
| Want to learn more about Windows Server 2008, but are short on time? Learning Snacks are short, interactive presentations about popular Windows Server 2008 topics and have been created by Microsoft Learning experts. Each Snack is delivered by using innovative Microsoft Silverlight technology... |
Miscellaneous |
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| Bits And Bytes Conversion Tables |
| by Don Hite - 8/26/2008 |
| Bits And Bytes Conversion Tables |
SMS Alliance |
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| Grant Thornton LLP chooses Sybase iAnywhere to manage 3000 mobile devices |
| by Rod Trent - 4/30/2007 |
| 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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| Microsoft Application Virtualization (MAV) / SoftGrid and Symantec Altiris SVS clients on the same machine BSOD |
| by Shaun Cassells - 8/26/2008 |
| It looks like the filter driver in Softgrid cannot deal with SVS on Windows XP SP2. |
Virtualization |
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| Virtualization Utility: Desktops |
| by Rod Trent - 8/27/2008 |
| Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. |
Microsoft Deployment |
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| MDT 2008 Update 1 Released |
| by Dan Thomson - 8/1/2008 |
| An update to the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 has been released. |
System Center Mobile Device Manager |
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| AT&T MDM Early Adopter QuickStart Program |
| by Marco Nielsen - 8/29/2008 |
| For new or current AT&T customers out there, there is a new cool interesting offering from AT&T. |
Network Access Protection |
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| Best Practice for SHV placement |
| by Richard Dixon - 8/25/2008 |
| "Where to place the System Health Validator Point Role (SHV) be in the ConfigMgr 2007 hierarchy?" - The quick simple answer is at the Central Site in the hierarchy, or at the Site where your ConfigMgr administrators will perform daily administrative duties on. |
