Browse by Tags

• *All My Articles*
• Active Directory
• Scripting - VBScript

• Blog comments/feedback still don't work?

  Guess I was thinking moving servers and changing domain names would be the end-all-be-all fix. :) I forget what the deal was, can you use Firefox to post comments but not IE? Wasn't there a different issue... Posted Dec 12 2005, 03:41 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: SMS

• 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... Posted Nov 14 2005, 01:50 PM by mbroadstock with | 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 | with no comments Filed under: SMS

• Improvements to SMS Group/Collection creation HTA

  I posted a while back about a little HTA that I was working on to help automate the creation of groups in AD and the creation of Collections that are tied to those groups. I've added a few options to make... Posted Oct 27 2005, 02:09 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript, SMS

• Script to find SMS Packages with bad Source Paths

  Another article on a new script I wrote. This one is quick and simple. It will identify SMS Packages that have a source path set to a folder that doesn't exist. There's nothing really revolutionary here... Posted Oct 24 2005, 04:57 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript, SMS

• Fixing SMS Package deployment to Distribution Points

  I threw together an article on how to fix problems where a package doesn't deploy to a Distribution Point properly. We had over 80 such instances at my current client. We never found out about the issues... Posted Oct 24 2005, 11:00 AM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: SMS

• Creating an Exclusion query/collection in SMS

  Some people may already know about this but I ran into it for the first time and thought it was interesting. We needed to create a collection in SMS that excluded all resources that were in a specific... Posted Oct 07 2005, 10:44 AM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: SMS

• Problems deploying packages that utilize InstallShield ISScript

  We've run into a few applications that wouldn't install properly via SMS if a non-admin was logged onto the system when the package got deployed. If an administrator was logged on or if no one was logged... Posted Oct 06 2005, 04:15 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: SMS

• Auditing systems that are missing a SMS client (or have a broken client)

  I've been doing some thinking on how best to audit our systems to make sure that SMS is installed and working properly on all of our systems. Right now I am mulling over a few options that I think might... Posted Oct 05 2005, 05:07 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: SMS, Active Directory

• Utility to build Groups and Collections for SMS

  I posted a while back on this but I have a production version done now. This utility is really handy for creating groups that you can tie to SMS Collections as query rules. The company that I am at now... Posted Oct 05 2005, 03:57 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript, SMS, Active Directory

• RegPerm must be buggy

  Well, we might be closer to figuring out what is screwing up the registry permissions in a lot of our packages. From what we have seen so far, RegPerm must have a few bugs. It is shutting off inheritence... Posted Sep 22 2005, 12:32 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: SMS, Active Directory

• Having fun getting SMS client issues worked out

  Well, now that Tim Mintner is a bigshot and Microsoft (how's Davenport treatin' ya) and Brian Tucker is in South Carolina sitting on a beach drinking beers and playing his guitar, I get to be SMS-guy for... Posted Sep 21 2005, 12:49 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: SMS

• Fun with HTAs

  I do a ton of vbs/shell scripting and dabble in HTML every once in a while when I need to but I've never gotten around to writing an HTA until recently. They can be very useful and now that I have started... Posted Sep 14 2005, 09:58 AM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript, SMS, Active Directory

• Using SMS to gather NAV pattern file information

  I threw together an article detailing how you can use a fairly simple vbs script to create a MIF file that will let you use SMS to gather inventory information on your NAV clients. This one just inventories... Posted Aug 04 2005, 07:01 PM by mbroadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Scripting - VBScript, SMS