November 2005 - Posts

• Using Community server for corporate knowledge sharing

  We're experimenting with using Community Server for internal knowledge sharing at my current client (for IT folks only). We have a Sharepoint site setup that we use for posting tips/tricks and all that good stuff. But a lot of the knowledge sharing that goes on is via e-mail. And, e-mail gets purged periodically and requires that everyone keeps a copy of it if they think it is something worth keeping. We're playing around with using forums to toss ideas back and forth and provide solutions for each other. I'm optimistic that it will be a big success--just need to get enough people to buy in to it so it is a useful tool. We've always wanted to put out a newsletter periodically from the corporate IT staff to the remote folks. I think we can utilize a blog for that. I just wish I was the one who thought of using CS like this! I've been at companies where we tried to use Exchange public folders for similar things but it never went over very well. CS seems like it could be an extremely useful tool for this type of thing. So easy to use... Posted Nov 14 2005, 02:59 PM by mbroadstock with no comments Filed under: Misc

• Finding SMS Packages without a specific sharename defined on DPs

  I hate it when I am troubleshooting software distribution issues and the package is configured to deploy to the distribution points in the SMSPKG folder with a subfolder named after the Package ID. It seems to be a lot easier to figure things out if the package is configured to create a named folder on the SMSDist share. I put together a quick script to identify those packages so they can be updated. Just update the SMS server and site name... On Error Resume Next Dim strComputer, objWMIService, propValue, SWBemlocator, UserName, Password, colItems strComputer = "smsserver" UserName = "" Password = "" Set SWBemlocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") Set objWMIService = SWBemlocator.ConnectServer(strComputer,"\root\sms\site_XXX",UserName,Password) Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from SMS_Package where ShareType='1' and PkgSourceFlag<>'1'",,48) 'ShareType = 1 means it doesn't have a specific sharename (will use SMSPKG folder) 'PkgSourceFlag = 1 means it doesn't have source files-need to exclude these For Each objItem in colItems  WScript.Echo objItem.PackageID & vbTab & objItem.Name Next Posted Nov 14 2005, 01:50 PM by mbroadstock with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript, SMS

• SMS Alliance?

  What do I have to do to get into the SMS Alliance?? :) Poor little SMSUtils getting left out?? Posted Nov 14 2005, 10:45 AM by mbroadstock with no comments Filed under: SMS