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Today’s Articles; October 30, 2008

System Center Configuration Manager
Configuration Manager Remote Tools for Helpdesk Staff
by Mohammad Asem  Alhourani - 10/30/2008
Making a great SMS 2003 solution work for ConfigMgr 2007.

System Center Operations Manager
Manual Agent Assignment vs. Auto Agent Assignment
by David StClair - 10/30/2008
I have found that the Manual Agent assignment doesn’t work as well as advertised. In the env I was working in, we had agents set to failover to between GW servers, GWs set to failover between the RMS and Mgt servers. That didn’t happen and the agents would just drop offline.

Scripting
VBS Script To Send A Remote Machines Service Information To A Web Page
by Don Hite - 10/30/2008
This VBS script will allow you to enter a remote machine name into an input dialog box and will in turn list the services on that machine with their current state marked Green (Running) or Red (Stopped) as appropriate to a web page.

Windows PowerShell
PowerShell one liner to query servers in AD
by Ying Li - 10/30/2008
Let's say you want to query all the servers in AD

Security
CounterSpy Enterprise 3.1 Maintenance Release
by Andrew Berges - 10/30/2008
Just posted to the web at the below URL: http://go.sunbeltsoftware.com/?linkid=400

SQL Server
Calculate a client's subnet mask when defining subnet boundaries (using BITWISE AND & in SQL)
by John Nelson - 10/30/2008
I was recently pointed to Jeff Gilbert's blog where he has an article on determining a client's subnet mask and using them in subnet boundaries.

Active Directory and Group Policy
PowerShell one liner to query servers in AD
by Ying Li - 10/30/2008
Let's say you want to query all the servers in AD

Published Oct 30 2008, 08:20 AM by rodtrent
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