System Center News SQL Views documentation is Live! by Steve Thompson - 10/31/2008 A while back, I was able to provide some assistance to Garth Jones in documenting the existing SMS/SCCM SQL Server views. Doug Eby, a Senior Technical Writer at Microsoft created some fine documentation, in part based on our work. System Center Configuration Manager Deploying SQL Server 2005 with SP2 Using an OSD Task Sequence (Part 1) by Jeff Gilbert - 10/31/2008 One of the coolest features (I think) of Configuration Manager is the ability to deploy software using task sequences, but because task sequences are generally associated with operating system deployment, a lot of people never really use them unless they're deploying new operating systems. System Center Operations Manager SQL Query for Alert Information by Scott Moss - 10/31/2008 One of the users on SystemCenterCommunity requested a SQL query for scom to get the following information: Managed computer, Alert description and Alert severity. Scripting VBS Script To List All SMS Classes On A Site Server by Don Hite - 10/31/2008 This VBS Script was written to allow you to list all of the WMI classes available on an SMS or ConfigMgr site server for your reference. The classes will be written and sorted for easier use. Windows Running Scripts in x64 Windows XP by Shaun Cassells - 10/31/2008 Some scripts will fail if they use the wrong native scripting host.