System Center Configuration Manager

Extend AD Schema Fails with Error Code 8206
by Mohammad Asem Alhourani - 12/17/2008
At a customer’s site while testing an upgrade procedure from SMS 2003 to ConfigMgr 2007, I’ve faced a problem in extending the Active Directory Schema.
SMS 2003

Remote Security Patch Compliance Checker
by Pierson Glyn-Williams - 12/17/2008
Verify Patch compliance of any remote computer by comparing WMI to your SMS database using this script to generate a XLS Report for your tech's.
System Center Operations Manager

Operations Manager 2007 Powershell: Close all open alerts generated by rules
by Scott Moss - 12/17/2008
By request I came up with the following PowerShell one liner to close all open alerts that were generated by a Rule. Reason being that if one closes an alert generated by a monitor, that alert will not be fired off again until the computers health is recalculated. To find alerts that are generated b
Scripting

VBS Script To Send Site Server Populated Inbox File Counts To Excel
by Don Hite - 12/17/2008
This VBS script is an updated version of previous scripts I wrote to count files in a specified Site Servers inboxes. The original script was written to allow me to monitor the Incoming and DDM inboxes and alert me to other inboxes where a backlog of files were building up.
Windows PowerShell

Operations Manager 2007 Powershell: Close all open alerts generated by rules
by Scott Moss - 12/17/2008
By request I came up with the following PowerShell one liner to close all open alerts that were generated by a Rule. Reason being that if one closes an alert generated by a monitor, that alert will not be fired off again until the computers health is recalculated. To find alerts that are generated b
Patch Management

Remote Security Patch Compliance Checker
by Pierson Glyn-Williams - 12/17/2008
Verify Patch compliance of any remote computer by comparing WMI to your SMS database using this script to generate a XLS Report for your tech's.
Security

Security Audit Events for Windows 2008 and Windows Vista
by lynn lunik - 12/17/2008
I field numerous questions from Clients regarding Security Audit Event values when configuring Security Settings and SC Operations Manager 2007 Monitors and Rules. Finally, a single Worksheet has been generated by Microsoft.
Windows

Security Audit Events for Windows 2008 and Windows Vista
by lynn lunik - 12/17/2008
I field numerous questions from Clients regarding Security Audit Event values when configuring Security Settings and SC Operations Manager 2007 Monitors and Rules. Finally, a single Worksheet has been generated by Microsoft.
SQL Server

Asset Intelligence Asset Intelligence Reports SQL Query
by Don Hite - 12/17/2008
Provided here is a SQL query version of the Asset Intelligence asset intelligence reports report.