August 2008 - Posts

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SMS 2003 - Query to pull logged on user records from all sources by jnelson

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...
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SQL/WQL Tip - How to escape special SQL/WQL wildcard characters like % _ by jnelson

THE PROBLEM You've written a SQL query or a WQL query (like an SMS/CM collection query) and you need to look for a string that has a percent % or underscore...
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SMS/SCCM vs Promisec Spectator - Part 2 of 2 (The rebuttal) by jnelson

If you read my previous post on the blood-boiling comparison between SMS/SCCM & Promisec Spectator, you've likely developed all kinds of responses...
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SMS/SCCM vs Promisec Spectator - Part 1 of 2 (Their Comparison) by jnelson

If you're an SMS or SCCM guy and you want to get your blood boiling, just look at this writeup the people at Promisec created that compares SMS to...
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SQL 2005 Security - Revoke EXECUTE rights for PUBLIC on (potentially) unsafe extended stored procedures by jnelson

Where I work, we have an amazing crew of security architects and analysts who have decades of experience in all things security. Sure, at times they may...
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SMS/SCCM & Batch Files - Important notes on running .BAT files from UNC in SMS/SCCM by jnelson

THE PROBLEM When you run a .BAT file from a UNC path, the first thing you might notice is the warning about "UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting...
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