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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 in your head about how they're so wrong on...
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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 their Promisec Spectator. I mean no disrespect to...
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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 to the Windows Directory" All this really...

SMS 2003 - Verify WMI Stability Backport on Windows XP/Server 2003 with this report SQL (deploy to them with this collection query WQL) by jnelson

BACKGROUND (click HERE to skip to the summary) I've been looking into our client health a lot deeper recently and something that I keep coming back to is how fragile WMI seems. After some great conversations...
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SCCM 2007 - SCCM Permissions Matrix by jnelson

This SQL query pulls all SCCM permissions for each user and displays them in a matrix. Put this into an SCCM Web report. This should work for SQL 2000, SQL 2005 and higher. SELECT UCP.UserName, SO.ObjectName...

M@d Skillz - Introducing a new degree of difficulty by jnelson

I've been getting some positive feed back on how much detail I've been putting into my posts and how appreciative people are that I include the full explainations for those people who don't...

SMS/SCCM Query Performance Tips - Addressing objects with the schema name (.dbo) by jnelson

A commonly overlooked little performance tip in SQL is addressing your objects (like tables, views, functions, procedures, etc.) using the schema (aka, the owner) name in front of the object. For example...
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