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• WMIC Alias/WMI Class Mapping

  Finding information in WMI can be quite challenging, especially if you do not know where to look. There are several tools out there for finding this information and some are built right into the latest Windows operating systems. This article will be talking... Posted Sep 23 2009, 06:34 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: System Center

• Podcast: 1E System Center Episode 1 Released

  We are pleased to announce the release of Episode 1 of the 1E System Center Podcast. In this episode, Andy Dominey (OpsMgr Practice Lead and MVP) and I chat with Kevin Muldoon and Barry Shilmover from the OpsMgr Product team about 2 key new features of... Posted Jul 14 2009, 11:07 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: System Center

• Problem encountered creating MDT 2008 Boot Image when SMS Provider is not installed on site server

  Let me first state that this is not necessarily a problem with MDT 2008 or ConfigMgr, but has to do with setting share-level permissions.  So who should be responsible for doing that?  The product (automated), or the admin (manually)? So let... Posted Jul 08 2009, 01:16 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: System Center, 1E Internal blogs, OS Deployment

• MDT 2008: Error occurred integrating with ConfigMgr

  After installing MDT 2008, you can then integrate it with ConfigMgr by running the Configure ConfigMgr Integration wizard. In doing this, I uncovered an issue where if the ConfigMgr SMS Provider is NOT installed on the site server, the wizard will error... Posted Jul 08 2009, 11:01 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: System Center, 1E Internal blogs, OS Deployment

• OpsMgr: Can’t change the alert resolution state

  A client recently contacted me with an unusual problem. They reported that when they attempted to resolve an alert in the Active Alerts view, they kept getting the following error: The resolution state on one or more alerts could not be modified due to... Posted Jul 07 2009, 06:39 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: System Center

• What happens when failing to run wsusutil configureSSL, and how to troubleshoot the symptoms

  To quickly answer the question, so that you do not have to read the entire blog: The RED sections of both logfile screen-captures at the bottom, demonstrates what you will see in the respective logfiles when you fail to run WSUSUTIL.EXE command-line.... Posted Jul 06 2009, 04:27 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: System Center

• Diagnostic and Recovery Tasks in Operations Manager - An Overview

  The strength of any great monitoring solution is not just in its ability to report issues and the current state of servers and applications (there are a plethora of good monitoring tools that can do this), but in its ability to resolve problems automatically... Posted Jun 17 2009, 04:51 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: System Center

• Machines awaiting reboot due to PendingFileRenameOperations

  Introduction As we know, many desktop computers do not get rebooted for long periods of time and many laptop users almost never shutdown their computer and just merely “close the lid”.  Because of this, the “pending reboot/file rename” is persisted... Posted May 27 2009, 12:58 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: System Center, 1E Internal blogs

• Machines awaiting reboot due to “pending file rename operation”

  Introduction As we know, many desktop computers do not get rebooted for long periods of time and many laptop users almost never shutdown their computer and just merely “close the lid”.  Because of this, the “pending reboot/file rename” is persisted... Posted May 26 2009, 09:51 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: System Center, 1E Internal blogs, Pending, GracefuLReboot, Reboot, PendingFileRenameOperations, Restart

• ConfigMgr package programs cannot use task sequence variables!

  When running a normal ConfigMgr package/program as a step in a task sequence, you cannot use variables on the command line. This happens because the execution of the program is actually managed by the execmgr, the clients normal execution manager, which... Posted May 26 2009, 11:45 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: System Center, OS Deployment

• Running a tasks that stops WMI as a part of a ConfigMgr task sequence

  If you want to run a certain application or configuration that stops either WMI or the Agent Host you have to run it as a "Run Command Line" step. All "Install Software" steps is executed by the execmgr by the Agent Host, and when... Posted May 26 2009, 04:11 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: System Center, OS Deployment

• ConfigMgr task sequence variable for distribution point

  You can use variables that reference the DP path for each package, there is no variable that references the “DP” as there could be many DPs. Dependnign on advert settings you can get both SMB and HTTPs locations for the DP in two difference... Posted May 22 2009, 05:29 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: System Center

• Importing and Exporting ConfigMgr Tasks Sequences

  First of all, if you want to programmatically import/export tasks sequences ensure that you are on SP1, that contains the undocumented import functionality. More about that in later posts. If you want to import a task sequence, ensure that you have all... Posted May 21 2009, 10:30 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: System Center, OS Deployment

• Running a ConfigMgr Task Sequence command line as a specified user

  When you use the "Run this step as the following account" in ConfigMgr you need to be aware of the fact that the OSD environment does NOT follow to the new user environment. This means that scripts referencing the Microsoft.SMS.TSEnvironment... Posted May 18 2009, 09:37 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: System Center, OS Deployment

• When Working with ConfigMgr OSD Collection variables

  Keep in mind that these values do not apply to the target machine from parent collections if the client is not also a member of the parent collection, and linked collections does not transfer variables either. You can however advertise to linked collections... Posted May 14 2009, 05:49 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: System Center