April 2007 - Posts

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; April 30, 2007

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter April 30, 2007 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the this newsletter or any of the other myITforum.com newsletters, click to manage your subscriptions. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes The last day of the month -- you know what that means Today is the last day of April which means that the myITforum monthly drawing is upon us.  It also means you have 1 day left to get entered to win this month's SWAG.  Drop out to the drawing page, check out the cool SWAG we have to give-away, and get signed up quickly. http://www.myitforum.com/contest/swag/Apr2007.asp Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp   Back to top The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing By helping sponsor myITforum.com, you are also entered into the monthly SWAG drawing. Each month, we hold a drawing for some great SWAG, and your donation ensures that you have the opportunity to win! Based on your donation level, you increase your chances of winning. Read more about it... Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003 SMS 2003 Status Messages Showing Inconsistent Results Throughout Your Hierarchy by Don Hite - 4/30/2007 Sometimes you may find that the status messages on your primary site server(s) are showing inconsistent results on down level servers such as your child sites or other site servers in your hierarchy. MOM Gathering MOM Inventory Information by Don Hite - 4/30/2007 This post will provide you with information on how to use the utility. Scripting Vbs Script To Create Multiple Shares On A Remote Server by Don Hite - 4/30/2007 This by request Vbs script will create multiple shares on the server specified. When the shares have been created you need to modify the effective user or group permissions for the newly created shares. Windows PowerShell PowerShell Script To Return A Remote Machines MAC And IP Address by Don Hite - 4/30/2007 This PowerShell script will prompt you for a remote machine name and return the MAC address and The IP address for the machine Security Windows 2003 Server Disaster Recovery Mode Password Resets by Don Hite - 4/30/2007 Follow these steps to reset the DSRM password on the local server. Windows Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Log Files by Don Hite - 4/30/2007 WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) log files are designed to provide you with information about your machines WMI framework. This will provide you with a list of the WMI log files and a brief description of each. Windows Mobile Pocket Live TV announced by John Gormly - 4/30/2007 Watch 100 channels from 10 countries live on your Pocket PC phone. With Pocket Live TV, your phone becomes a portable TV. Watch your favorite channels right in the palm of your hand. SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 Re-Released by Don Hite - 4/30/2007 Microsoft has re-released Service Pack (SP) 2 for Microsoft SQL server 2005 on March fifth because they discovered issues with maintenance plans Sharepoint SharePoint Services And Server 2007 Exams and Certifications Released by Don Hite - 4/30/2007 IT Pro Exams for SharePoint Services And Server 2007 SMS Alliance Grant Thornton LLP chooses Sybase iAnywhere to manage 3000 mobile devices by Rod Trent - 4/30/2007 US Member Firm of Global Accounting, Tax and Business Advisory Organization Leverages Information Anywhere Suite to Streamline Desktop and Mobile Laptop Management. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums   Topic Forum RE: General question - advertisements and collections SMS 2003 Negative Values in UpdatesSummary SMS 2003 RE: Missing Updates SMS 2003 Full-time SQL Developer, SharePoint - NYC Job Board RE: Package status not Reporting on Central Site SMS 2003 RE: OSD Problem - Black screen after restart SMS Feature Packs RE: Exe control MOM RE: MOM Reporting MOM RE: Recommendation for MOM 2007 Infrastructure MOM RE: Running Comp. and Device man. Wizard MOM RE: OpsMgr Connector issue with domain in another forest (MOM 2007) MOM SCOM 2007 MP link and Documentation link System Center Operations Manager   Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads   No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Altiris' Carbon Copy product the first to go... Is Symantec announcing any end of life plans upon the acquisition close date? Yes, Symantec is announcing the end of life of Carbon Copy, LiveState Client Management Suite, LiveState Delivery, LiveState Delivery Manager, Symantec Discover, and LiveState... by rodtrent to Rod Trent at myITforum.com     Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection     Back to top Today's FAQ Items FAQ # 274 : What are the system requirements to use Microsoft's virtual labs? Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates No Wiki updates today. Drop by the Wiki and add your own content: http://www.myitforum.com/myITWiki   Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings SMS Administrator opportunity with Toyota We have an excellent Temp to Direct hire opportunity with a major automotive manufacturer for an SMS Administrator. The position would be located in Georgetown, KY near Lexington. This is a great opportunity with a fantastic company! Here are the details...   Full-time Contract position for Technical Writer at West Hill, CA , 91304 Hello, Currently I have an opening for a Technical writer with a nationwide Home Loan company at West Hill, CA. This is a contract position for 3-6 months with a good pay. Please review the requirement below and if you find it a good match to your skill...   Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Tater Mitts Back to top   Posted Apr 30 2007, 12:41 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; April 27, 2007

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter April 27, 2007 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the this newsletter or any of the other myITforum.com newsletters, click to manage your subscriptions. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Today's the day for SMS 2003 SP3 Are you chomping at the bit, waiting for SP3 for SMS 2003 to be posted later today?  I’ll be watching with anticipation, too.  When something like this is to be posted, it usually happens toward the end of my work day (around 3:00pm EST).  I’ll be downloading it right away to check it out.  And, as usual, I’ll end up installing it right away. How about you?  Will you download and install, or give SP3 a good test before rolling it out? Whichever you decide, we’re wanting to keep an open article on the site with stories from you about SP3 deployment.  We’ve done this for every SMS service pack in the past and we’ve found it really helps other SMS Admins hear about both successes and failures.  When you decide to deploy SP3 we welcome your input.  Just drop a quick email with any comments, good or bad, to:  admin@myITforum.com Your comments, thoughts, workarounds, and information will help SMS Admins worldwide.     Because we want to know - new Poll We’ve set up a new poll for you to participate in, that simply requires your input about online communities.  We’ve thrown you some softballs, but also ask that you take a little time to give us a list of non-myITforum communities that you currently participate in. We like to keep in touch with other communities who are providing excellent information for our members and visitors. When you have some time, visit the following link to participate. http://www.myitforum.com/absolutepm/polls/community.asp Thanks! April 2007 SWAG Drawing - April's SWAG has been posted Here it is, folks!  By entering this month’s drawing, you could win the one-and-only, hard-to-get, famous SMS Installer Book - signed by the author AND a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate donated by SecureVantage! http://www.myitforum.com/contest/swag/Apr2007.asp Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp   Back to top The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing By helping sponsor myITforum.com, you are also entered into the monthly SWAG drawing. Each month, we hold a drawing for some great SWAG, and your donation ensures that you have the opportunity to win! Based on your donation level, you increase your chances of winning. Read more about it... Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003 Site to Site Communications problem by Sherry Kissinger - 4/27/2007 Site-to-Site Communication problems due to backlogged Site Control TypeFlag "2". You notice that changes you make at the SMS Admin console for Site changes (like adding a new boundary to a child site, or adding a new software inventory rule) are not reflected at the child site. System Center Operations Manager Information Worker Management Pack for SCOM 2007 Released by Rod Trent - 4/27/2007 The Microsoft Information Worker Management Pack monitors the health, reliability, and performance of Microsoft Office applications and certain Microsoft Windows applications. MOM ROInow! for MOM 2005 by Rod Trent - 4/27/2007 What is the financial benefit of MOM 2005 in a greenfield environment? Is there an advantage to upgrading an existing MOM 2000 monitoring system to MOM 2005? Do the potential benefits of MOM 2005 outweigh any costs of migrating from an existing non-Microsoft solution? Windows Hardware Device Enumeration and Driver Installation in Windows PE 2.0 by Jeff  Huston - 4/27/2007 Microsoft Windows PE 2.0 is an improvement over the previous versions of Windows PE. This new version is built on the Vista kernel and has updated components. But with this upgrade come a couple of caveats. Windows Mobile Resco releases Explorer 2007 for Pocket PC by John Gormly - 4/27/2007 Explorer 2007 continues in the footsteps of Resco Explorer 2005, improving its features and adding many new ones. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums   Topic Forum Running Comp. and Device man. Wizard MOM RE: RE: MOM Admin interview questions... MOM RE: Site in System Management container not updating SMS 2003 RE: Interfaces for connecting to SMS 2003 SMS 2003 RE: ITMU 3 Updates Tool - failure 11412 SMS 2003 RE: Software Updates displaying negative numbers? SMS 2003 RE: Disable Wake Up Frame using Group Policy Active Directory and Group Policy Citrix Web Interface configuration problem Citrix RE: Understanding how BDD creates a customized PE image SMS Feature Packs RE: Cleaning up the Site Database SMS 2003 RE: Hardware and software inventory -> Strange problem -> need help SMS 2003 RE: Some patches won't install - Listed as Applicable, but not found to be Actionable SMS 2003 RE: Hopefully Simple SQL Query Question Web Reporting RE: Advertisements repushing SMS 2003 Setting up Johans HAL Detection Script SMS Feature Packs RE: VB Script works for exe but in SMS it doesn't VB Script RE: General question - advertisements and collections SMS 2003 RE: site code of computers in a collection SMS 2003 RE: App Wont Install During State Restore SMS Feature Packs RE: BDD 2.5, Installing Applications In The Foreground During State Restore SMS Feature Packs RE: BDD 2007 LTI Operating System Deployment RE: SATA Drivers for XP using BDD 2007 SMS Feature Packs RE: Looking for Enhanced System Discovery Tool SMS 2003 RE: Software Distribution to computer-group AND user-group SMS 2003 RE: OSD - Where are log files ? SMS Feature Packs RE: SMS 2003 SP3? SMS 2003 RE: Bandwidth throttling, how is it determined? SMS 2003 RE: MP Failed SMS 2003   Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads    No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp   For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts SMS 2003 SP3 due -- what's new? SMS 2003 SP3 has been signed-off on and should be posted toward EOB tomorrow. So — what’s new in SP3? From: http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/evaluation/2003/sp3.mspx In addition to providing the latest fixes for Microsoft Systems Management... by rodtrent to Rod Trent at myITforum.com   It's Showtime! SMS 2003 R2 and System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Walter Mead Program Manager, System Center TAP Team, Microsoft Corporation Blogger’s Note: hehehe…they said ‘Walter’! Starting with a review of the changes in SMS 2003 R2, this in-depth technical drilldown looks into the two key... by rodtrent to Rod Trent at myITforum.com   Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection     Back to top Today's FAQ Items No FAQ Items today If you have a question for the myITforum.com experts, drop out to the FAQ to ask a question: http://www.myitforum.com/faqs/afmmain.aspx Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates No Wiki updates today. Drop by the Wiki and add your own content: http://www.myitforum.com/myITWiki   Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings SMS Administrator opportunity with Toyota We have an excellent Temp to Direct hire opportunity with a major automotive manufacturer for an SMS Administrator. The position would be located in Georgetown, KY near Lexington. This is a great opportunity with a fantastic company! Here are the details...   Full-time Contract position for Technical Writer at West Hill, CA , 91304 Hello, Currently I have an opening for a Technical writer with a nationwide Home Loan company at West Hill, CA. This is a contract position for 3-6 months with a good pay. Please review the requirement below and if you find it a good match to your skill... Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Lactose Tolerance Back to top   Posted Apr 27 2007, 01:33 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; April 26, 2007

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter April 26, 2007 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the this newsletter or any of the other myITforum.com newsletters, click to manage your subscriptions. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Interviewing someone for a job administering or managing SMS or MOM? This is a culmination of questions (since October 2006) Admins believe should be asked during a SMS or MOM job interview.   It’s a great list of questions.  I’ll have to glean through all of these and put into a document soon. SMS:  http://www.myitforum.com/forums/m.asp?m=81837 MOM:  http://www.myitforum.com/forums/m.asp?m=81839   Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp   Back to top The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing By helping sponsor myITforum.com, you are also entered into the monthly SWAG drawing. Each month, we hold a drawing for some great SWAG, and your donation ensures that you have the opportunity to win! Based on your donation level, you increase your chances of winning. Read more about it... Back to top Today's Articles System Center Configuration Manager New Objects in Software Update Management by Stuart James - 4/26/2007 The SUM feature in ConfigMgr has changed significantly from SMS 2003. The big change is the utilisation of WSUS, but it also introduces new objects that the administrator will need to become familiar with and those objects are the focus of this article. SMS 2003 SMS 2003 SP3: Friday by Paul Thomsen - 4/26/2007 Yes, SMS 2003 SP3 is due to be posted this Friday April 27th (yes, 2007). The most reliable of sources has confirmed it. Scripting Inventory the Files in the Temporary Internet Files Folder by Rod Trent - 4/26/2007 Use this VB Script to list all of the items in the Temporary Internet Files folder on a computer. Windows PowerShell Getting the List of Scheduled Tasks by Rod Trent - 4/26/2007 Use this Windows PowerShell script to retrieve the list of scheduled tasks on a computer. Patch Management New Objects in Software Update Management by Stuart James - 4/26/2007 The SUM feature in ConfigMgr has changed significantly from SMS 2003. The big change is the utilisation of WSUS, but it also introduces new objects that the administrator will need to become familiar with and those objects are the focus of this article. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums   Topic Forum Microsoft launches New Security Portal beta General Security Discussions RE: Shutdown.exe not working from SMS Advertisement SMS 2003 RE: Unable to get machines SMS 2003 RE: Searching the SMS Admin Console SMS 2003 RE: Site Boundaries and Management Points SMS 2003 RE: Upgrading to System Center SMS 2003 OpsMgr Connector issue with domain in another forest MOM RE: Software Distribution to computer-group AND user-group SMS 2003 RE: SAV and SMS AntiVirus Products and Best Practices Hopefully Simple SQL Query Question Web Reporting RE: Environment Variables or SMS_def.mof SMS 2003 RE: Move Distribution Point Share SMS 2003 RE: Making inventory of software of all the pcs??? SMS 2003 Clean Active Directory after Unistall Live Comm Active Directory and Group Policy RE: ITMU error 11412 & how I fixed it. Your thoughts? SMS 2003 RE: ITMU 3 Updates Tool - failure 11412 SMS 2003 RE: using wildcards in SQL statement Web Reporting AD Group Discovery SMS 2003 RE: using wildcards in SQL statement Web Reporting RE: General BDD Build configuration Questions SMS Feature Packs VISTA - activation barn door open Windows Vista RE: Distributing Multiple Software Updates SMS 2003 RE: SMS Deployment Error SMS 2003 Full-time Contract position for Technical Writer at West Hill, CA , 91304 Job Board Clean Active Directory after Unistall Live Comm Live Communication Server RE: Changing SMS Site Code SMS 2003 RE: BDD on SMS 2003 SMS Feature Packs Microsoft Forefront and System Center Demonstration Toolkit System Center Configuration Manager RE: Office 2007 Questions Microsoft Office RE: Polling AD to Collect objects SMS 2003 SMS Administrator opportunity with major automotive manufacturer Job Board File redirect VB Script   Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp   For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Awesome OpsMgr Powershell Site This site is written by Robert Sprague who is the Powershell guy on the OM Product team. This site is an excellent source of information and sample scripts for using the Operations Manager Command Shell. The site can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com... by adominey to Andy Dominey's MOM Blog at myITforum.com   Microsoft Forefront and System Center Demonstration Toolkit Original post: http://www.myitforum.com/forums/m.asp?m=155589 Poster: mkoerner Post: This is a great way to test all the new System Center Products coming out! It's a huge download :( Overview This is a unified virtual-machine based demo environment... by rodtrent to Rod Trent at myITforum.com   Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection   Back to top Today's FAQ Items No FAQ Items today If you have a question for the myITforum.com experts, drop out to the FAQ to ask a question: http://www.myitforum.com/faqs/afmmain.aspx Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates ITMU Scan Process   Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings SMS Administrator opportunity with Toyota We have an excellent Temp to Direct hire opportunity with a major automotive manufacturer for an SMS Administrator. The position would be located in Georgetown, KY near Lexington. This is a great opportunity with a fantastic company! Here are the details...   Full-time Contract position for Technical Writer at West Hill, CA , 91304 Hello, Currently I have an opening for a Technical writer with a nationwide Home Loan company at West Hill, CA. This is a contract position for 3-6 months with a good pay. Please review the requirement below and if you find it a good match to your skill... Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click President Bush talks to myITforum in the Rose Garden Back to top   Posted Apr 26 2007, 01:53 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; April 25, 2007

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter April 25, 2007 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the this newsletter or any of the other myITforum.com newsletters, click to manage your subscriptions. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes CTSMUG - next Meeting - Friday, April 27th You're invited to the Spring meeting of the Central Texas Systems Management Users Group (CTSMUG) at the Microsoft Technology Center in Austin, Texas. Our very own Angie Stahl will be leading a great discussion on MMS 2007. We'll be talking about SMS, SCCM, SCOM, OSD, and just about every other Systems Center acronym you can imagine! We will also discuss and demonstrate a little of Windows PowerShell with SMS! Register - http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=117974   myITforum Wiki Navigation We’re messing around with the navigation on the myITforum Wiki.  If you get a chance to check it out, please take a look and let us know what you think.  Or, if you have additional suggestions, let us know them, too. Drop your comments and suggestions to: admin@myITforum.com     myITforum Email discussion list outage yesterday Each email list has a 500MB domain limit set on it.  A couple of the email lists reached the 500MB capacity yesterday, causing all of the lists to stop processing.  Unfortunately, when this happened yesterday, coincidentally, there was a power outage so that we were unable to fix the lists right away. Each email list had to be manually repaired once power was restored.  The email lists are now flowing again and no email was lost.  We’ll have to keep a closer eye on the email list software.  Having popular email discussion lists can cause additional management sometimes, but it’s well worth it.   Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp   Back to top The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing By helping sponsor myITforum.com, you are also entered into the monthly SWAG drawing. Each month, we hold a drawing for some great SWAG, and your donation ensures that you have the opportunity to win! Based on your donation level, you increase your chances of winning. Read more about it... Back to top Today's Articles System Center News Announcing Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 Release Candidate by Rod Trent - 4/25/2007 Essentials 2007 is a new management solution in the System Center family of IT systems management products specifically designed for midsized businesses. System Center Configuration Manager News: Service Manager beta is taking signups by Joseph Hinkle - 4/25/2007 I noticed the Service Manager beta is available for applications on the Connect site. It won't be available until May, but you can beat the crowds by signing up today. SMS 2003 Using DateDiff and GetDate in WQL for SMS Queries and Collections by Greg Ramsey - 4/25/2007 Queries and collections based on time stamps with DateDiff and GetDate - That's the best thing that's happened to collections since. . .well, as long as I can remember. Scripting SMSUtils.com Community Downloads by Sherry Kissinger - 4/25/2007 Do you have lots of folders/subfolders for your packages or advertisements? We do. It makes sense when you file them like that at the time you created them... but months later you wonder where you put that package in the folder structure? Windows PowerShell Retrieving Environment Variables by Rod Trent - 4/25/2007 Use this Windows PowerShell script to retrieve and review the environment variables for a computer. Patch Management Stop errors after installing MS07-017? Microsoft releases a fix today for it by Rod Kruetzfeld - 4/25/2007 Stop 0x0000007F error when you try to print from computers that are running Windows XP or Windows 2000 and that have GDI security update 925902 installed. Windows Retrieving Environment Variables by Rod Trent - 4/25/2007 Use this Windows PowerShell script to retrieve and review the environment variables for a computer. Windows Mobile Spb Software House Releases Spb Phone Suite by John Gormly - 4/25/2007 Spb Software House, the leading Windows Mobile software developer, releases Spb Phone Suite, a collection of all the main phone features you've been missing on your Windows Mobile device. Altiris Lost Altiris Deployment Solution Console Password by David Scambler - 4/25/2007 I have lost the password for the console in deployment solution 6.1 View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums   Topic Forum RE: SMS - Vista SMS 2003 Making inventory of software of all the pcs??? SMS 2003 RE: [PICS INSIDE] Install .net 1.1 on all non 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 machines?? SMS 2003 RE: NEW to MOF Microsoft Systems Management Server RE: Searching the SMS Admin Console SMS 2003 RE: Software Distribution to computer-group AND user-group SMS 2003 RE: Hard disk SMS 2003 RE: General BDD Build configuration Questions SMS Feature Packs MOM 2007 deployment MOM RE: ITMU SMS2003 SP2 SMS 2003 RE: OH THE PAIN, accidently sent software to all system. SMS 2003 RE: Why is re-run advertisement grayed out when advertisement is set to logoff? SMS 2003 RE: Advertisements repushing SMS 2003 Imaging and packaging Expert - NYC Job Board ITMU 3 :Shutdown FATAL: WUAutoUpdateAtShutdown failed, hr=8024000C SMS 2003 RE: SCCM Beta 2 setup System Center Configuration Manager r..." href="http://www.myitforum.com/forums/fb.asp?m=155487&key=">SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER SMS 2003 RE: ITMU 3 Updates Tool - failure 11412 SMS 2003 RE: ITMU v3 ScanWrapper - McAfee 8.0 - 100% Utilization SMS 2003 RE: Script for uninstall Java SMS 2003 RE: Uninstall JAVA with SMS 2003 SMS 2003 Upgrading to System Center SMS 2003 SC Essentials vs full versions System Center Configuration Manager RE: Imaging w/SMS SMS 2003 RE: Softgrid installation on Windows 2003 SP2 Softgrid RE: Upgrading SMS 2003 sp2 to SQL 2005 SMS 2003 RE: Giving users remote control permission only to one collection SMS 2003 RE: SAV and SMS AntiVirus Products and Best Practices RE: Help with syntax for multiple OU's in EUD tool SMS 2003 RE: OSD - Adding Storage Drivers to Image Capture CD SMS Feature Packs RE: OSD Install CD issue SMS Feature Packs is ITMU v1.3 newer than the itmu included in SMS SP2? SMS Feature Packs   Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx     Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Verizon announces world Blackberry 8830 Verizon Wireless Announces the Next Evolution in Global Connectivity: the BlackBerry 8830 World Edition Smartphone and Global BlackBerry Service First CDMA/GSM BlackBerry Smartphone, Coupled with Always-On Global E-Mail and 24/7 Help Desk, Keeps Travelers... by jgormly to John at myITforum.com   The Amazing Amiga At It Again Do you remember the Amiga? Are you a fan from the days of old? Well now that you have a job you can afford one, and next week you will find out when you can buy one! If you've still got any amount of fondness for the Amiga brand in you, you'll... by aclendenen to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer   Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection     Back to top Today's FAQ Items FAQ # 273 : Can I manage mobile devices over the Internet using SMS 2003? Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates No Wiki updates today. Drop by the Wiki and add your own content: http://www.myitforum.com/myITWiki  Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings Citrix Softgrid Engineer Position Code #: 24651 Position Title: Sr. Citrix Administrator - SoftGrid Location: Groton, CT Position Description: · Seeking people who have large international environment experience, working as a Citrix Administrator for 5+ years with strong...   Sr. Developer with Healthcare Company at Long Beach, CA, 90802 Currently I have an opening for Sr. Developer with a nationwide Healthcare company at Long Beach. This is a direct hire, permanent position with a great benefit package. Please review the requirement below and if you find it a good match to your skill...   Technical Lead Position at Long Beach, Healthcare Technical lead position is with a nationwide Healthcare company at Long Beach . This is a direct hire , permanent position. Please review the requirement below and if you find it a good match to your sill set, please send your resume in word format along...   SharePoint and SQL Contract in Phoenix If you are an experienced SharePoint and SQL admin there is an open contract in the Phoenix area. They are looking for someone to redesign their intranet using SharePoint and also do some data warehousing in SQL. If you are interested send me a copy of...   Imaging and packaging Expert - NYC In need for an imaging engineer. Must have experience with: - Image creation using BDD 2007 - previous experience consolidating imaging (reduction of the number of images) - Experience with Wise packageStudio - 10-20 packages (core apps) - Strong Vbscripting... Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click The Skeptic's Dictionary Back to top   Posted Apr 25 2007, 01:45 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; April 24, 2007

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter April 24, 2007 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the this newsletter or any of the other myITforum.com newsletters, click to manage your subscriptions. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Ed Aldrich in today's Fun Link Make sure you check out today's Fun Link...  :)   Phil Wilcock is fine and doing well Those who remember Phil from 1E, know that he left for the glorious life of a pig farmer some time ago.  Ed Aldrich has been on a 1E trip to Italy recently, and he has proof that Phil is alive and well.  Our myITforum cameras found him…   Windows Vista in the myITforum Reading Room We’ve added a special Windows Vista category to the myITforum.com Reading Room.  There’s some pretty good books in there to look through when you get some free time.   Because we want to know - new Poll We’ve set up a new poll for you to participate in, that simply requires your input about online communities.  We’ve thrown you some softballs, but also ask that you take a little time to give us a list of non-myITforum communities that you currently participate in. We like to keep in touch with other communities who are providing excellent information for our members and visitors. When you have some time, visit the following link to participate. http://www.myitforum.com/absolutepm/polls/community.asp Thanks!   April 2007 SWAG Drawing - April's SWAG has been posted Here it is, folks!  By entering this month’s drawing, you could win the one-and-only, hard-to-get, famous SMS Installer Book - signed by the author AND a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate donated by SecureVantage! http://www.myitforum.com/contest/swag/Apr2007.asp   Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp   Back to top The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing By helping sponsor myITforum.com, you are also entered into the monthly SWAG drawing. Each month, we hold a drawing for some great SWAG, and your donation ensures that you have the opportunity to win! Based on your donation level, you increase your chances of winning. Read more about it... Back to top Today's Articles System Center Configuration Manager SoftGrid - Importing An Application How To by Anthony Clendenen - 4/24/2007 So now that you have successfully sequenced an application, now what the heck do you do with it? The very short answer is you import it. But what would be the point of this post if I didn't explain it? SMS 2003 BDD Select Roles Through LiteTouch Wizard by Jason Scheffelmaer - 4/24/2007 Well I figured I would upload my current "Deployment Roles" document that describes how to modify your current BDD 2007 scripts to include the ability to configure and manage roles on a database table to make them selectable on the LiteTouch wizard. Windows PowerShell BDD & Powershell by Jason Scheffelmaer - 4/24/2007 I noticed Michael Niehaus's blog from Saturday talking about using BDD & Powershell together. He posted a great example on using Powershell to query the drivers in BDD and create groups based on each drivers manufacterer and add the drivers to the groups. Windows BDD Select Roles Through LiteTouch Wizard by Jason Scheffelmaer - 4/24/2007 Well I figured I would upload my current "Deployment Roles" document that describes how to modify your current BDD 2007 scripts to include the ability to configure and manage roles on a database table to make them selectable on the LiteTouch wizard. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums   Topic Forum SharePoint and SQL Contract in Phoenix Job Board RE: ITMU SMS2003 SP2 SMS 2003 Software Distribution to computer-group AND user-group SMS 2003 RE: Protecting SQL data e.g. SQL Mirroring SMS 2003 RE: Getting rid of old MBSA 1 and MBSA Extended SMS 2003 System Center Launch - LA System Center Operations Manager RE: OSD error - The system cannot find the path specified. (80070003) SMS Feature Packs RE: Health Service not running? System Center Operations Manager RE: Kicking off programs from a mandatory advertisement SMS 2003 RE: Management Packs for 2007 products System Center Operations Manager RE: ACS Comparison System Center Operations Manager Technical Lead Position at Long Beach, Healthcare Job Board RE: OpsMgr Management Pack for SMS 2k3 System Center Operations Manager RE: Recommendation for MOM 2007 Infrastructure MOM Sr. Developer with Healthcare Company at Long Beach, CA, 90802 Job Board RE: Getting error 8004100E when installing the Advanced client SMS 2003 RE: Upgrading SMS 2003 sp2 to SQL 2005 SMS 2003 RE: Managing Old Clients SMS 2003 RE: Policy for Software Inventory SMS 2003 SW Metering Report Web Reporting RE: Objects no longer in system_Disc, but still in all other tables/views SMS 2003 RE: Extending MOF to Inventory Custom WMI Namespace SMS 2003 MOF Files in SCCM System Center Configuration Manager RE: question about reporting after MS Updates patching SMS 2003   Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads file user section date size BDD Deployment Roles Modification jscheffelmaer SMS 2003, Scripting 4/24/2007 635.5 kb Document that describes how to modify BDD 2007 to allow a new wizard pane to prompt for Roles to apply to machine for LiteTouch deployment.     Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Altiris makes a way for better, cleaner toilets in schools This article talks about the school system running so lean and mean (thanks to Symantec and Altiris products) that they don’t have to waste money on high-paid IT folks. In their own words: “What's the point of having top-notch IT if the... by rodtrent to Rod Trent at myITforum.com   What Are Your Computers Doing At Night? If you are using SMS to install patches or applications at night do you leave them on all the time? Do they stay on 24 hours a day? Seven days a week? If you leave your computers on at night they are only actually being used for 8, maybe 9 hours a day... by aclendenen to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer   MS Knowledge Base is down... Trying to access http://support.microsoft.com for the last few minutes and I receive the following error message. I’m sure it will be fixed shortly, but… Server Error in '/' Application. Runtime Error Description: An application error... by rodtrent to Rod Trent at myITforum.com   Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection     Back to top Today's FAQ Items FAQ # 269 : Why is it that I am not able to find the "delete" icon for my posts in the forums? Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates ITMU Scan - WindowsUpdate Begins ITMU Scan - SMSWusHandler Begins ITMU Scan - ScanWrapper Begins ITMU Scan Process   Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings Citrix Softgrid Engineer Position Code #: 24651 Position Title: Sr. Citrix Administrator - SoftGrid Location: Groton, CT Position Description: · Seeking people who have large international environment experience, working as a Citrix Administrator for 5+ years with strong...   Sr. Developer with Healthcare Company at Long Beach, CA, 90802 Currently I have an opening for Sr. Developer with a nationwide Healthcare company at Long Beach. This is a direct hire, permanent position with a great benefit package. Please review the requirement below and if you find it a good match to your skill...   Technical Lead Position at Long Beach, Healthcare Technical lead position is with a nationwide Healthcare company at Long Beach . This is a direct hire , permanent position. Please review the requirement below and if you find it a good match to your sill set, please send your resume in word format along...   SharePoint and SQL Contract in Phoenix If you are an experienced SharePoint and SQL admin there is an open contract in the Phoenix area. They are looking for someone to redesign their intranet using SharePoint and also do some data warehousing in SQL. If you are interested send me a copy of... Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click The myITforum Rome-ing Gnome Back to top   Posted Apr 24 2007, 02:13 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; April 23, 2007

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter April 23, 2007 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the this newsletter or any of the other myITforum.com newsletters, click to manage your subscriptions. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Because we want to know - new Poll We’ve set up a new poll for you to participate in, that simply requires your input about online communities.  We’ve thrown you some softballs, but also ask that you take a little time to give us a list of non-myITforum communities that you currently participate in. We like to keep in touch with other communities who are providing excellent information for our members and visitors. When you have some time, visit the following link to participate. http://www.myitforum.com/absolutepm/polls/community.asp Thanks!   April 2007 SWAG Drawing - April's SWAG has been posted Here it is, folks!  By entering this month’s drawing, you could win the one-and-only, hard-to-get, famous SMS Installer Book - signed by the author AND a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate donated by SecureVantage! http://www.myitforum.com/contest/swag/Apr2007.asp     Two new System Center forums added We’re continuing to fill out the support areas for System Center as new products become available.  Look for some interesting announcements around these in the next couple months. We added: System Center Service Manager  System Center Reporting Manager    Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp   Back to top The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing By helping sponsor myITforum.com, you are also entered into the monthly SWAG drawing. Each month, we hold a drawing for some great SWAG, and your donation ensures that you have the opportunity to win! Based on your donation level, you increase your chances of winning. Read more about it... Back to top Today's Articles System Center Configuration Manager SoftGrid Sequencing How To by Anthony Clendenen - 4/23/2007 The sequencing process consists of three different wizards, you can not use the wizards but why? If you ego tells you "we work in IT - we are computer experts, we don't use wizards! SMS 2003 News: SMS 2003 SP3 due in early May by Rod Trent - 4/23/2007 Official word – no official date. Just a date range. MOM The MOM Management Server Component And Agent Removal Utility by Don Hite - 4/23/2007 When you install MOM (2000 or 2005) and configure it to capture information from resources that are agent managed as a test or pilot in a production or non production environment and wish to remove all traces of your previous installation the removal process can easily be accomplished using the Cle Windows PowerShell Using PowerShell To Kill Local A Running Process by Don Hite - 4/23/2007 To see all of the processes running on your local system you can use the following command from within the PowerShell console: Get-Process Windows Windows Vista Hardware Assessment v2.0 Beta Program Now Open by John Gormly - 4/23/2007 Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Solution Accelerator is a centralized and agent-less tool designed to assess the readiness of client computers for Windows Vista. Windows Mobile Thousands Switch to Windows Mobile by John Gormly - 4/23/2007 Thousands of BlackBerry customers are looking to switch to Windows based Smart Phones claims US telco carrier T Mobile. Hardware and Gadgets Blackberry finally releases a statement by John Gormly - 4/23/2007 Right after I blogged about the Blackberry/RIM silence, stories started breaking around the statement issued by RIM on what exactly happened. I won’t fill the blog here about the statement since it’s all over the net at this point, but want to go on record with my disappointment. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums   Topic Forum RE: Extending MOF to Inventory Custom WMI Namespace SMS 2003 Software Metering issue SMS 2003 Hardware inventory process ! need help please ! SMS 2003 RE: OSD error - The system cannot find the path specified. (80070003) SMS Feature Packs Protecting SQL data e.g. SQL Mirroring SMS 2003 Which port is used for Software and hardware inventory ? SMS 2003 RE: big configuration problems SMS 2003 RE: ITMU - Allow postpone reboot for seven days not working SMS 2003 RE: OH THE PAIN, accidently sent software to all system. SMS 2003 RE: Retiring a Package SMS 2003 Move Distribution Point Share SMS 2003 RE: MP Failed SMS 2003 RE: Partition Problem in Refresh in BDD 2.5 SMS Feature Packs RE: Policy for Software Inventory SMS 2003 RE: Including customized vbs scripts in winPE Windows PE RE: Help: Package status reports correct version, but files are missing SMS 2003   Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads file user section date size Processor Count akaplan Scripting 4/23/2007 14.4 kb This script gets the processor information from computers relying on WMI. Single Core CPUs are distinguished from Dual Core. It can query a single system, systems from a list, or systems within an OU. Logfile on desktop. Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts RIM tries to prevent another Blackberry outage? Frustration continues to build, and this will probably be the last post on the subject. I checked this morning on both RIM’s site and Blackberry’s site. Still nothing posted related to the outage Tuesday/Wednesday, and what they’re doing... by jgormly to John at myITforum.com   Microsoft beefing up their Web 2.0-type of community offerings Microsoft is playing catch-up on the Internet once again. I’m sure this time will play out the same as last time, but it’s interesting to see the things they are coming out with. Here’s the spot where they are announcing new community... by rodtrent to Rod Trent at myITforum.com   Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection     Back to top Today's FAQ Items Are there any documents comparing Microsoft SMS and ScriptLogic Desktop Authority? What is System Center Essentials (SCE) 2007? Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates Infrastructure Optimization - IO Welcome to the myITforum.com Wiki Service   Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings UNIX Operations Specialist with an International Music Company, Fishers, Indiana, 46037 Currently we have an opening for an UNIX Operations Specialist with a major Music Company at one of its locations in Fishers, Indiana, 46037 . This is a contract position. Please review the job description below and if you find it a good match, send your...   Quality Assurance Analyst II with Leading Home Loan Lender at Plano, TX, 75075 Currently Hartwell Global has an immediate opening for a Quality Assurance Analyst II with one of our clients, who is the nation’s leading home loan lender at one of their locations in Plano , TX . Hartwell Global is a professional recruiting firm...   Citrix Softgrid Engineer Position Code #: 24651 Position Title: Sr. Citrix Administrator - SoftGrid Location: Groton, CT Position Description: · Seeking people who have large international environment experience, working as a Citrix Administrator for 5+ years with strong... Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Boxing Ring Back to top   Posted Apr 23 2007, 01:04 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; April 20, 2007

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter April 20, 2007 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the this newsletter or any of the other myITforum.com newsletters, click to manage your subscriptions. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes myITforum Wiki software upgraded The Wiki software for myITforum’s Wiki has been updated today to version 2.0.4.  No new features, just a bunch of bug fixes.  Have fun! http://www.myITforum.com/myITWiki/   Upgrading the blog software this weekend We may attempt an upgrade of the myITforum blogging software this weekend from our current version, to the just released 2007 version of Community Server.  This is just a heads-up for you if you visit the blogs this weekend and they are temporarily unavailable. BTW: If you ever want to put up a site of your own and want a full-featured “community” system (we only use Community Server for the blogs, right now) that’s easy to setup and manage, you should check out CS 2007.  If you have a small site, there is a free version that limits the number of blogs, forums, photos, files, etc.  Otherwise, if you have the budget, there are several commercial editions.   Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp   Back to top The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing By helping sponsor myITforum.com, you are also entered into the monthly SWAG drawing. Each month, we hold a drawing for some great SWAG, and your donation ensures that you have the opportunity to win! Based on your donation level, you increase your chances of winning. Read more about it... Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003 SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Dell Update v3 by Anthony Clendenen - 4/20/2007 SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Dell Updates is an add-on to SMS 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) that enables customers to use the SMS 2003 Software Update Management feature to update their Dell servers. Scripting List Excluded Servers From The Discovery Data Manager Registry Key by Don Hite - 4/20/2007 The SQL server script below will retrieve the machine names contained in the ExcludeServers registry key Windows PowerShell PowerShell Script to compare two arrays by Ying Li - 4/20/2007 Every now and then in my work, I need to compare excel sheets, like which clients managed by SMS also managed by opsware(or not). It is really a pain to compare those excel sheets line by line or search to filter hundreds out of thousands! SQL Server Finding Machines Last Hardware Inventory Scan With Additional Machine Info by Don Hite - 4/20/2007 The SQL query below will return the Machine Name, Model, Serial Number, Number Of Processors, Operating System Name, OS Version and the Last Hardware Scan timestamp. Hardware and Gadgets Why is RIM being quiet? by John Gormly - 4/20/2007 As most with a Blackberry know, this week has been horrible. And for those who support them, horrible doesn’t describe it. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums   Topic Forum Including customized vbs scripts in winPE Windows PE RE: big configuration problems SMS 2003 RE: OSD error - The system cannot find the path specified. (80070003) SMS Feature Packs RE: questions on installing advanced client & legacy client SMS 2003 RE: Personalize Reporting Web Site Web Reporting RE: questions on installing advanced client & legacy client SMS 2003 RE: Is it possible to copy programs inside package ? SMS 2003 RE: HAL Detection problems Windows PE RE: VB Script works for exe but in SMS it doesn't VB Script RE: Imaging w/SMS SMS 2003 RE: ITMU v3 Question SMS 2003 RE: ITMU - Advertisement question SMS 2003 RE: SCCM Client Install with Group Policy System Center Configuration Manager ITMU - Allow postpone reboot for seven days not working SMS 2003 Remove Storage Devices - GPO (Bypass) Windows Vista RE: Software Data Dump possible? SMS 2003 Web report security Web Reporting RE: MP Failed SMS 2003 RE: moving secondary site to new hardware-recommended reading? SMS 2003 UNIX Operations Specialist with an International Music Company, Fishers, Indiana, 46037 Job Board RE: Vista Start Menu SMS 2003 SMS 2003 Admin console in Vista over Wireless SMS 2003 Accurate software inventory reports SMS 2003 Agent Failover MOM AD Discovery - Adding Additional Fields SMS 2003 RE: Problem with software updates and sync SMS 2003 RE: Installation issues SMS 2003 Quality Assurance Analyst II with Leading Home Loan Lender at Plano, TX, 75075 Job Board RE: ITMU v3 SMS 2003 RE: Installation errors SMS 2003 Problem with DST after patching SMS 2003   Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx   Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Old Windows Mobile cell phone? If you have upgraded your PDA phone to a better one, and the old one is just sitting around, make it useful instead. Turn your old WM5 phone into a USB flash reader. http://www.modaco.com/WM5torage-t238545.html... by rodtrent to Rod Trent at myITforum.com   Xbox 360 Laptop mk2 This is sweet. Now why cant MS release this :-) http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/xbox-360-laptop-mk2/... by cstauffer to Chris Stauffer at myITForum.com   Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection     Back to top Today's FAQ Items No FAQ Items today If you have a question for the myITforum.com experts, drop out to the FAQ to ask a question: http://www.myitforum.com/faqs/afmmain.aspx Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates Welcome to the myITforum.com Wiki Service   Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings UNIX Operations Specialist with an International Music Company, Fishers, Indiana, 46037 Currently we have an opening for an UNIX Operations Specialist with a major Music Company at one of its locations in Fishers, Indiana, 46037 . This is a contract position. Please review the job description below and if you find it a good match, send your...   Quality Assurance Analyst II with Leading Home Loan Lender at Plano, TX, 75075 Currently Hartwell Global has an immediate opening for a Quality Assurance Analyst II with one of our clients, who is the nation’s leading home loan lender at one of their locations in Plano , TX . Hartwell Global is a professional recruiting firm...   Citrix Softgrid Engineer Position Code #: 24651 Position Title: Sr. Citrix Administrator - SoftGrid Location: Groton, CT Position Description: · Seeking people who have large international environment experience, working as a Citrix Administrator for 5+ years with strong... Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Monty Python's "Not So Much" Greatest Hits Back to top   Posted Apr 20 2007, 01:20 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; April 19, 2007

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter April 19, 2007 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the this newsletter or any of the other myITforum.com newsletters, click to manage your subscriptions. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Thanks to the myITforum folks! Last month was a record bandwidth month for myITforum.com.  So much, in fact, that our hosting company had to charge us an overage fee on the amount of bandwidth we used.  I expected the MMS “buzz” to increase our site activity, but not that much!  The good news is that those numbers are staying pretty steady.  The bad news is that we’ll probably have to adjust our budget for additional bandwidth for the year. I realize it’s late in the month, but we’re still just digging out of the post-MMS successes on this end, so we’ve not posted our April SWAG for this month’s drawing yet.  We’ll get it posted in the next few hours. In the meantime, you can still get entered and also help myITforum.com continue to be the best community resource on the web — and help us pay for the extra bandwidth you folks need. Drop out to the Donation page and think about contributing to the community in the ways listed there. http://www.myitforum.com/donations/   Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp   Back to top The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing By helping sponsor myITforum.com, you are also entered into the monthly SWAG drawing. Each month, we hold a drawing for some great SWAG, and your donation ensures that you have the opportunity to win! Based on your donation level, you increase your chances of winning. Read more about it... Back to top Today's Articles System Center Configuration Manager SoftGrid Sequencing - Setup - Part II by Anthony Clendenen - 4/19/2007 It is important to remember your sequencing system should be pristine, do not run a screen saver, do not browse the Internet, do not open folders while you are sequencing an app, make sure that you have set the option to open folders in a separate process... SMS 2003 An SMS Best Practice: keep large-scale active packages on most of the DPs by Paul Thomsen - 4/19/2007 For those packages that are applicable to lots of clients, keeping them on most of your distribution points (DPs) is common sense. But for old or obscure packages it's easy to forget about them and they may end up missing on a lot of DPs. That can cause unexpected pain. Scripting Calculating Percentages With Scripts by Don Hite - 4/19/2007 Here you will find a PowerShell script a VBS script and a Finally an HTA script to calculate percentages for use when performing functions such as SMS advertisement audits. Windows PowerShell Calculating Percentages With Scripts by Don Hite - 4/19/2007 Here you will find a PowerShell script a VBS script and a Finally an HTA script to calculate percentages for use when performing functions such as SMS advertisement audits. Security Symantec's AV kills WMDC? by Rod Trent - 4/19/2007 I posted about removing Symantec AV the other day and replacing it with TrendMicro’s AV. Since then, Windows Mobile Device Center has worked flawlessly. Windows Apple requests Vista user feedback on QuickTime by Rod Trent - 4/19/2007 According to the system requirements on the QuickTime download page, Windows Vista is not supported. Windows Mobile Symantec's AV kills WMDC? by Rod Trent - 4/19/2007 I posted about removing Symantec AV the other day and replacing it with TrendMicro’s AV. Since then, Windows Mobile Device Center has worked flawlessly. Web Technologies Calculating Percentages With Scripts by Don Hite - 4/19/2007 Here you will find a PowerShell script a VBS script and a Finally an HTA script to calculate percentages for use when performing functions such as SMS advertisement audits. Microsoft Office What's the deal with the Office 2007 update? by John Gormly - 4/19/2007 Just browsing through the new downloads on Microsoft’s download site and noticed this one: Update for Outlook 2007 (KB933493). Miscellaneous Ed Aldrich on TechNet Radio! by Rod Trent - 4/19/2007 Returning from the just completed Microsoft Management Summit, Ed Aldrich speaks with John Weston about the new System Center suite of products. Altiris Thoughts About - Altiris: Now Part of Symantec by Reed Porter - 4/19/2007 The Friday before ManageFusion '07, Altiris officially became a wholly-owned unit of Symantec. This acquisition definitely concerned me as an Altiris user, so I was eager to discover what was in store for the future. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums   Topic Forum RE: moving secondary site to new hardware-recommended reading? SMS 2003 RE: Client Clean up SMS 2003 RE: Possible to add domain user to local admin group Silently? General Scripting OSDBranch.exe -save error 1E Products RE: ITMU - Distribute Software Updates Wizard for x64 SMS 2003 RE: Problem connecting to Packages Database SMS Feature Packs RE: Assign site code during msi client install SMS 2003 RE: OH THE PAIN, accidently sent software to all system. SMS 2003 RE: Software Data Dump possible? SMS 2003 RE: SMS OSD Oddity SMS 2003 RE: When to Update the Distribution Points? SMS 2003 RE: ITMU V3 Error installing SMS 2003 RE: Can't find an active policy in GPMC Active Directory and Group Policy RE: ITMU SMS2003 SP2 SMS 2003 Partition Problem in Refresh in BDD 2.5 SMS Feature Packs RE: BDD 2.5 Issues Revisited - Need HELP! Operating System Deployment RE: HAL Detection problems Windows PE RE: Management Packs for 2007 products System Center Operations Manager RE: Re-run Advertisement Question SMS 2003 Embedded systems developer w/CDMA (and/or other) experience wanted... Job Board New Variant of ANI exploit emerges Breaking Virus & Security News SMSSEND.VBS question SMS 2003 RE: Help to stop looping reboot message id 10022 - reboot pending SMS 2003 RE: ITMU Fails to find 923097 SMS 2003 RE: OSD - Adding Storage Drivers to Image Capture CD SMS Feature Packs Can't patch Windows 64bit SMS 2003   Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads file user section date size Reports Syntax twatson274 SMS 2003, SMS Queries, Reports and MOFs 4/19/2007 5.1 kb These reports allow other admins to see the syntax of all your reports, without having to give them access to the SMS Administrator Console. Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts $3395 gets you a few sheets of printable information I guess Datamonitor is trying to pay for their licensed copy of Adobe Acrobat. Folks, this is only 29 pages long. Most of us could put this amount of information together in about 2 hours, using all of our contacts within this community to culminate a... by rodtrent to Rod Trent at myITforum.com   Using Scripts with SoftGrid http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid/archive/2007/04/18/using-scripts-with-softgrid.aspx The following was taken from the link above. To see the orginal posting, use the link above. We often times get questions about using scripts with SoftGrid so we thought... by rcrumbaker to Ron Crumbaker at myITforum.com, Inc.   Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection     Back to top Today's FAQ Items No FAQ Items today If you have a question for the myITforum.com experts, drop out to the FAQ to ask a question: http://www.myitforum.com/faqs/afmmain.aspx Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates No Wiki updates today. Drop by the Wiki and add your own content: http://www.myitforum.com/myITWiki   Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings Client Services Group - Customer Support Specialist We are currently looking for a Customer Support Specialist to join our Customer Support Group. REZ-1 is a growing company that employs talented, driven professionals that enjoy challenges and opportunities. Our company’s open and straightforward...   Quality Assurance - QA Engineer We are currently looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join our QA Department. This candidate will be responsible for carrying out all QA processes; developing test plans and test cases from business requirements / design specifications, executing...   Experienced SMS Packager needed in San Antonio, TX We are looking for a Microsoft SMS Packager that will create application installation packages to be deployed to managed workstations and servers. The candidate must be able to troubleshoot SMS installation issues of the application packages, and develop... Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Ten Simple Questions Test Back to top   Posted Apr 19 2007, 01:26 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; April 18, 2007

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter April 18, 2007 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the this newsletter or any of the other myITforum.com newsletters, click to manage your subscriptions. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Ed Aldrich on TechNet Radio! Community Corner: An interview with five time SMS MVP, Ed Aldrich Returning from the just completed Microsoft Management Summit, Ed Aldrich speaks with John Weston about the new System Center suite of products. Ed Aldrich is founder and co-facilitator of the New England Area SMS User Group (the largest and oldest known SMS specific User Group in the country). They discuss the new features of Systems Management Server (SMS), entitled System Center Configuration Manager 2007, such as built-in functions to simplify OS deployment and Network Access Protection (NAP). Main page (live thru Tuesday, April 24th) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/tnradio/default.mspx   Archive (static) URL: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/tnradio/archive/aldrich.mspx   Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp   Back to top The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing By helping sponsor myITforum.com, you are also entered into the monthly SWAG drawing. Each month, we hold a drawing for some great SWAG, and your donation ensures that you have the opportunity to win! Based on your donation level, you increase your chances of winning. Read more about it... Back to top Today's Articles System Center Configuration Manager SoftGrid Sequencing - Setup by Anthony Clendenen - 4/18/2007 Here are some of my notes from my testing and data gathering, touched up a little for readability. This discusses some of the options of setting up your sequencing workstation and some of the pitfalls to try and avoid. SMS 2003 SMS Class Property Viewer To Write Property Names To A Text File by Don Hite - 4/18/2007 This by Request Vbs script is based on a previously posted HTA class property viewer script and will write all of the available SMS class properties to a text file as opposed to the HTA window for the class name specified in the input box for your scripting reference. SMS 2.x SMS Class Property Viewer by Don Hite - 4/18/2007 This HTA script will write all of the available SMS class properties to the current window for the class name specified in the specified input text box for your scripting reference. Scripting Vbs Script To Count Users In An Active Directory Domain by Don Hite - 4/18/2007 This by request Vbs script will return the total number of users found in the specified domain. Windows PowerShell Find all the processes on a computer that started today by Ying Li - 4/18/2007 Here is a little PowerShell script to find all the processes on a computer that started today. Web Technologies SMS Class Property Viewer by Don Hite - 4/18/2007 This HTA script will write all of the available SMS class properties to the current window for the class name specified in the specified input text box for your scripting reference. Active Directory and Group Policy Vbs Script To Count Users In An Active Directory Domain by Don Hite - 4/18/2007 This by request Vbs script will return the total number of users found in the specified domain. Support Management Return on investment computations by Joseph Hinkle - 4/18/2007 One of the most difficult things a person can ever do is prove that a company should buy something that "everyone knows" that they need. Miscellaneous Do you use internet radio? by John Gormly - 4/18/2007 From previous blog posts, you know I’m a big fan of web sites like http://www.pandora.com for listening to some great music FREE. There is nothing that passes the time while you’re working (other than certain OT email lists) than listening to some great tunes in the process. Altiris ManageFusion '07 Shows Altiris as Customer Focused by Reed Porter - 4/18/2007 I just returned from ManageFusion '07 in Las Vegas and I continue to be impressed by the way Altiris really caters to their customers. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums   Topic Forum RE: HAL Detection problems Windows PE RE: Query based on VLAN SMS 2003 RE: Query for finding machines WITHOUT a certain service SMS 2003 Retiring a Package SMS 2003 Event ID: 529 with old and deleted user id SMS 2003 RE: MP Failed SMS 2003 RE: SMS 2003 DMZ - Port 80 SMS 2003 Advanced client cache mof modification help SMS 2003 OH THE PAIN, accidently sent software to all system. SMS 2003 RE: Does anyone use SMS to target machine groups? SMS 2003 RE: has the McAfee 8.5i issues been sorted out? SMS 2003 Problem with software updates and sync SMS 2003 RE: has the McAfee 8.5i issues been sorted out? SMS 2003 RE: Report date of last full hinv SMS 2003 Interfaces for connecting to SMS 2003 SMS 2003 RE: Installation errors SMS 2003 RE: Latest patches not downloaded Software Update Services/Windows Update Services Where to find all Microsoft patches for BDD Operating System Deployment RE: BDD 2.5, Installing Applications In The Foreground During State Restore SMS Feature Packs RE: OSD error SMS Feature Packs RE: ADS deployment agent Automated Deployment Services (ADS) RE: The Distribution Point Roams SMS 2003 RE: OS deployment hangup Operating System Deployment Experienced SMS Packager needed in San Antonio, TX Job Board RE: Package source download method SMS 2003 RE: installing Windows 2003 SP2 on SMS Server -> Incident ? SMS 2003 RE: Altiris eXpress and WDS on same network? Altiris RE: Install .MSI to Workstations SMS 2003 RE: Still need help with OSD vs. BDD SMS Feature Packs RE: The correct version of Server 2003 for WinPE 2005 Source Files SMS Feature Packs New Rinbot - IRC worm exploits DSN RPC Vulnerability Breaking Virus & Security News ITMU Fails to find 923097 SMS 2003   Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx     Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts   Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection               Back to top Today's FAQ Items No FAQ Items today If you have a question for the myITforum.com experts, drop out to the FAQ to ask a question: http://www.myitforum.com/faqs/afmmain.aspx Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates No Wiki updates today. Drop by the Wiki and add your own content: http://www.myitforum.com/myITWiki   Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings Client Services Group - Customer Support Specialist We are currently looking for a Customer Support Specialist to join our Customer Support Group. REZ-1 is a growing company that employs talented, driven professionals that enjoy challenges and opportunities. Our company’s open and straightforward...   Quality Assurance - QA Engineer We are currently looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join our QA Department. This candidate will be responsible for carrying out all QA processes; developing test plans and test cases from business requirements / design specifications, executing...   Experienced SMS Packager needed in San Antonio, TX We are looking for a Microsoft SMS Packager that will create application installation packages to be deployed to managed workstations and servers. The candidate must be able to troubleshoot SMS installation issues of the application packages, and develop... Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Five Minutes to Kill Yourself Back to top   Posted Apr 18 2007, 01:46 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; April 17, 2007

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter April 17, 2007 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the this newsletter or any of the other myITforum.com newsletters, click to manage your subscriptions. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes My New Position With 1E - from Anthony Clendenen Several days ago in one of my posts I wrote that I would have some news to announce - and today is that day! Beginning on Monday April 23rd I will start my new position as a System Engineer for the Western US with 1E!  Just four days before my birthday - Happy Birthday to me! I am extremely excited to be working with 1E (don't believe me? See below!). In May I will be onsite at their headquarters in the UK for several weeks, after that I will be back here in the US shadowing Brian, Ed, and Derek to get more familiar with the company and there processes. My time with Dimension Data North America was a four short months but it was time for me to move on. There are several people at Dimension Data that I would like to thank for their friendship, professionalism, expertise, and honesty, Kelly, Iain, Karina, Margaret, and Nick, just to name a few.  There is a tremendous amount of great people at Dimension Data! I have this week off - it's kind of weird not having a job!  But I am working on catching up on some projects at home, emails that I have not had time to reply to, lurking in the forums and responding to questions on the email list, and doing some reading.  If you have been waiting for me to get back to you on something now is the time to remind me, if you have been waiting to send me an email about something and have been holding off, now is the time.  If you have a link to something you would like to share or see me post about, now is the time to send it to me. I won't name names, but for those who helped me during this process - Thank You! Warmest Regards, Anthony Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp   Back to top The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing By helping sponsor myITforum.com, you are also entered into the monthly SWAG drawing. Each month, we hold a drawing for some great SWAG, and your donation ensures that you have the opportunity to win! Based on your donation level, you increase your chances of winning. Read more about it... Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003 SMS 2003 ITMU V3 Requirements by Don Hite - 4/17/2007 Here you will find the SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates (ITMU) Version 3 Microsoft requirements for deployment and use. Scripting VBS Script To Count Computers In An Active Directory Domain by Don Hite - 4/17/2007 This by request VBS script will return the total number of computers found in the specified domain. Windows PowerShell How Many Days Till New Year by Ying Li - 4/17/2007 If someone ever asks you,” How long is it till new year (or any day for that matter)?” Below is a little PowerShell date math routine I borrowed from Jeffrey Snover, the architect of PowerShell. Patch Management SMS 2003 ITMU V3 Requirements by Don Hite - 4/17/2007 Here you will find the SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates (ITMU) Version 3 Microsoft requirements for deployment and use. Windows Mobile WM6 Reference Guide by Rod Trent - 4/17/2007 The Microsoft WM6 reference guide is available for download. SQL Server HTA Sample Script To Add Records To A SQL Database Table by Don Hite - 4/17/2007 This HTA script will provide you with an example of how to add records to a SQL database table via input text boxes with the appropriate values selected from drop down menus. Web Technologies HTA Sample Script To Add Records To A SQL Database Table by Don Hite - 4/17/2007 This HTA script will provide you with an example of how to add records to a SQL database table via input text boxes with the appropriate values selected from drop down menus. Active Directory and Group Policy VBS Script To Count Computers In An Active Directory Domain by Don Hite - 4/17/2007 This by request VBS script will return the total number of computers found in the specified domain. Support Management Adventures in Microsoft Licensing by Joseph Hinkle - 4/17/2007 I've spent the better part of two weeks learning more than I ever wanted to know about Microsoft's Enterprise Agreement. As it turns out, there are quite a parts that have poor or little explanation on the Microsoft website. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums   Topic Forum RE: Where is the Advanced Client Network Account Password stored SMS 2003 RE: Using WMI with SMS to shutdown machines SMS 2003 RE: Report date of last full hinv SMS 2003 installing Windows 2003 SP2 on SMS Server -> Incident ? SMS 2003 RE: Advertised Program icon in System tray SMS 2003 RE: Old primary site causing problem for new site SMS 2003 Hardware report SMS 2003 Is R2 Advanced Client compatible with SP1 site server? SMS 2003 RE: has the McAfee 8.5i issues been sorted out? SMS 2003 Problem connecting to Packages Database SMS Feature Packs RE: BDD 2.5, Installing Applications In The Foreground During State Restore SMS Feature Packs RE: Few SMS Questions SMS 2003 RE: Client Health Collections mentioned at MMS2007 SMS 2003 RE: MS07-017 A continuation SMS 2003 RE: Can't find an active policy in GPMC Active Directory and Group Policy RE: Design question SMS 2003 RE: The correct version of Server 2003 for WinPE 2005 Source Files SMS Feature Packs RE: Issue regarding SMS_STATE_SYSTEM (M-ID: 6105) System Center Configuration Manager RE: SMS Client Behavior SMS 2003 RE: MP Failed SMS 2003 RE: MOM 2005 Monitor question MOM RE: SQL 2005 Altiris RE: Cache Report Web Reporting RE: Scan tool SMS 2003 RE: Pushing Advanced Client to Computers SMS 2003   Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx     Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Vonage: no workaround, we're pretty much screwed I'm moving back to BellSouth. Oops, I mean AT&T. Vonage is going the way of the dodo and I don't want my home phone to be a part of it. Vonage: no workaround, we're pretty much screwed - Engadget : Vonage had already been granted a temporary stay,... by jhinkle to Joseph Hinkle at MyITForum.com Podcasts: Information Security at Microsoft Overview Describes the best practices and processes Microsoft IT uses to secure its network and provides a brief overview of the many aspects of network security; including some of the technologies used to protect against viruses, unapproved access attempts and... by jgormly to John at myITforum.com   Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection      Back to top Today's FAQ Items FAQ # 268 : What is System Center Essentials (SCE) 2007? Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates No Wiki updates today. Drop by the Wiki and add your own content: http://www.myitforum.com/myITWiki   Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings Compugen, Inc. has many open positions Compugen is currently hiring for the following positions throughout Western Canada. For more information on these positions, please visit our website at www.compugen.com Edmonton Technical Service Representatives Corporate Account Manager Senior Consultant,...   AD / SMS Role - Contract - Global Bank The Role Reporting to the Euro Support Team Manager, the Euro Support Production Engineer’s role is to provide support for the bank’s Windows 2000/2003/XP infrastructure & SMS 2.0/2003 environments within the Euro domain, geographically... Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Create Comics from your Photos Back to top   Posted Apr 17 2007, 01:30 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; April 16, 2007

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter April 16, 2007 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the this newsletter or any of the other myITforum.com newsletters, click to manage your subscriptions. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Reminder: The myITforum BETA site If you were at MMS 2007 you saw the screens of the NEW myITforum.com.  We’re working on rolling out the new site soon, but I wanted to give you the public URL to the beta site so you can test it and give us feedback.  We had some great feedback from MMS that we’ll be incorporating. Here’s the URL to the beta site: http://www.myITforum.com/newsite Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp   Back to top The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing By helping sponsor myITforum.com, you are also entered into the monthly SWAG drawing. Each month, we hold a drawing for some great SWAG, and your donation ensures that you have the opportunity to win! Based on your donation level, you increase your chances of winning. Read more about it... Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003 Reporting on Wireless Zero Configuration Preferred Networks by Sherry Kissinger - 4/16/2007 If using Wireless Zero Configuration (XP), gather the names and order of preference via SMS Hardware Inventory. MOM Upgrading Your MOM 2005 Database Backend From SQL 2000 To SQL 2005 by Don Hite - 4/16/2007 This article will provide you with information and tools necessary to you to upgrade your MOM infrastructure from the MOM RTM release with a SQL 2000 server database backend to MOM Service Pack (SP) 1 infrastructure running on a SQL 2005 server database backend. Scripting Write Machines Primary Owner Information From A Text File To An Access Database by Don Hite - 4/16/2007 Here you will a VBS script to write machine names and their corresponding primary owner names to a Microsoft Access database based on an input text file Windows PowerShell Setting The PowerShell Execution Policy Via The Registry by Don Hite - 4/16/2007 Setting The PowerShell Execution Policy Via The Registry Windows Installing BITS On A Windows 2003 Server by Don Hite - 4/16/2007 Here you will find instructions for installing BITS on your Windows 2003 server that has IIS installed. SQL Server SQL Server 2005 Java Database Connectivity by Don Hite - 4/16/2007 Microsoft recently released their Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver for SQL server. Sharepoint SharePoint And MOSS Community Sites And Blog Page Links by Don Hite - 4/16/2007 SharePoint And MOSS Community Sites And Blog Page Links list Web Technologies Installing BITS On A Windows 2003 Server by Don Hite - 4/16/2007 Here you will find instructions for installing BITS on your Windows 2003 server that has IIS installed. Altiris Altiris Software Virtualization Solution by Don Hite - 4/16/2007 The Altiris Software Virtualization Solution is like a mini-Virtual machine but it is not quite the same. However it does share similarities as you will see. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums   Topic Forum RE: Windows Vista Latency Issues When Disconnected from Domain Windows Vista 'Agent was unable to contact any MOM Server' MOM has the McAfee 8.5i issues been sorted out? SMS 2003 RE: Exception in Site Boundaries SMS 2003 Advertised Program icon in System tray SMS 2003 RE: Vista patches SMS 2003 RE: MP Failed SMS 2003   Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts MMS coming to the UK… On Tuesday 1 st May Microsoft will be hosting a “Mini-MMS” event here in the UK entitled “ Microsoft Management Summit (UK) - Are you in control? How to manage and secure your infrastructure ”. This event will include the highlights of this year’s Microsoft... by chobbs to Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com   Hello FireFox As mentioned in an earlier post , I have gradually become dissatisfied with Internet Explorer 7. After a recent patch installation seemed to wreak havoc on IE's ability to properly layout web pages, I decided to A) Uninstall IE 7, and B) Install Firefox.... by dthomson to Dan Thomson at myITforum.com   Initial thoughts on CCMWindow As previously shared by Cliff Hobbs , Rodney Jackson shared some nice tools during his SY20 SMS 2003/SCCM 2007 911 Case Studies session at MMS 2007. Of particular interest to me is the CCMWindow tool. This tool is pretty nice, but it stores the service... by dthomson to Dan Thomson at myITforum.com   Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items No FAQ Items today If you have a question for the myITforum.com experts, drop out to the FAQ to ask a question: http://www.myitforum.com/faqs/afmmain.aspx Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates Microsoft Operating System Deployment   Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings Compugen, Inc. has many open positions Compugen is currently hiring for the following positions throughout Western Canada. For more information on these positions, please visit our website at www.compugen.com Edmonton Technical Service Representatives Corporate Account Manager Senior Consultant,...   AD / SMS Role - Contract - Global Bank The Role Reporting to the Euro Support Team Manager, the Euro Support Production Engineer’s role is to provide support for the bank’s Windows 2000/2003/XP infrastructure & SMS 2.0/2003 environments within the Euro domain, geographically... Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Guess the Guitar Star Back to top   Posted Apr 16 2007, 12:31 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; April 13, 2007

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter April 13, 2007 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the this newsletter or any of the other myITforum.com newsletters, click to manage your subscriptions. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Reminder: Microsoft's Survey on Community Microsoft has launched an online survey targeted at getting a baseline on satisfaction with current Windows Enterprise Management community resources, sites, etc. In addition, they want to capture feedback on future needs, i.e. what Microsoft can do to improve the overall experience, i.e. creating a more “connected” experience across resources, etc. Here’s a link to the survey. Reminder: The myITforum BETA site If you were at MMS 2007 you saw the screens of the NEW myITforum.com.  We’re working on rolling out the new site soon, but I wanted to give you the public URL to the beta site so you can test it and give us feedback.  We had some great feedback from MMS that we’ll be incorporating. Here’s the URL to the beta site: http://www.myITforum.com/newsite Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp   Back to top The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing By helping sponsor myITforum.com, you are also entered into the monthly SWAG drawing. Each month, we hold a drawing for some great SWAG, and your donation ensures that you have the opportunity to win! Based on your donation level, you increase your chances of winning. Read more about it... Back to top Today's Articles System Center Configuration Manager Require secure key exchange is now enabled by default by Stuart James - 4/13/2007 The "Require secure key exchange" setting is now selected by default in System Center Configuration Manager. SMS 2003 Query SMS 2.0 And SMS 2003 Sites Current Service Pack Level by Don Hite - 4/13/2007 Use the SQL script below to find your SMS sites service pack version level for SMS 2.0 or SMS 2003 sites. SMS 2.x Query SMS 2.0 And SMS 2003 Sites Current Service Pack Level by Don Hite - 4/13/2007 Use the SQL script below to find your SMS sites service pack version level for SMS 2.0 or SMS 2003 sites. Scripting Updated Vbs Script Ping A List Of Machines And Write Results To Excel by Don Hite - 4/13/2007 This VBS script will take a list of machine names from a spreadsheet and determine whether or not the machine is currently on line and if so it will write the IP address for the machine to the current spreadsheet. Windows Windows Vista conflict solved with aircard by John Gormly - 4/13/2007 Well, one of my mobility issues with Windows Vista has been solved. I’ve been trying for weeks to get either an Option GT Max 3.6 card, or a Sierra Wireless 875 card, to work with my Windows Vista laptop (Compaq nc6220). Windows Mobile Windows Mobile 6 Top Features by John Gormly - 4/13/2007 A short list of Windows Mobile 6 Features. SQL Server Query SMS Client Machines and Return Their Client Type And Client Version by Don Hite - 4/13/2007 This SQL query will enumerate all of your SMS client machines and return their client type and client version. Hardware and Gadgets Palm joins bloggers world by John Gormly - 4/13/2007 Palm has taken another step. They’ve started a company blog. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums   Topic Forum RE: Wsusscn2.cab SMS 2003 RE: HAL Detection problems Windows PE RE: Deploying software between domains SMS 2003 RE: SMS Inventory Data Loader Failed SMS 2003 RE: newbie question.. pls help! SMS 2003 RE: Collection Security SMS 2003 RE: Secondary DP sort of question SMS 2003 RE: Have my cake and eat it to? SMS 2003 Compname (WDS unattended & prestaging) Operating System Deployment RE: SMS "Download from remote distribution point" SMS 2003 RE: Same name, different Resource ID SMS 2003 Cache Report Web Reporting RE: Hey all you script guru's SMS 2003 RE: Do advanced clients always point to same MP ? Do they ever reassign. SMS 2003 RE: keeping sms updated with client info w/o using heartbeat discovery SMS 2003 Secondary Site not in Console SMS 2003 RE: Can not find the "surname" attribute in User Objects Active Directory and Group Policy RE: Active Directory Security Delegation - Rename User Active Directory and Group Policy Rebuilding the Lab SMS 2003 RE: Remote Distribution Point SMS 2003 RE: sms 2003 sp2 smssetup.log Failed to retrieve a verifiable SC File SMS 2003 RE: Tool for file/dir/acct & permission Windows Server RE: new worm in zip email Breaking Virus & Security News Installing 2 new secondary servers/management points SMS 2003 RE: Modify a report question SMS 2003 RE: IE Version Query SMS 2003 new worm in zip email Breaking Virus & Security News RE: remove IE 7.0 as missing patch SMS 2003 RE: Softgrid installation on Windows 2003 SP2 Softgrid   Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Rodney Jackson's Slides and Tools now available on the MMS website... Microsoft have now resolved the issue with Rodney's PPT Slide deck and utilities not appearing on the MMS website. To access these simply log into the MMS site, click on "Session Scheduler" and then filter by "Speaker: Rodney Jackson". Happy downloading... by chobbs to Cliff Hobbs, FAQShop.com & myITforum.com   My Carumba...a Treo Fiesta House Party? OK, so I blogged a couple of weeks ago about registering to win a Cinco De Mayo Treo Fiesta House Party. Well, on April 9th, I received an email (yes, I registered) saying that they were still reviewing entries and I would receive notification on April... by jgormly to John at myITforum.com   Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items FAQ # 267 : Are there any documents comparing Microsoft SMS and ScriptLogic Desktop Authority? FAQ # 266 : Is there a consolidated document for installing, configuring, and managing OSD and BDD? Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates Microsoft Operating System Deployment   Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings Compugen, Inc. has many open positions Compugen is currently hiring for the following positions throughout Western Canada. For more information on these positions, please visit our website at www.compugen.com Edmonton Technical Service Representatives Corporate Account Manager Senior Consultant,...   AD / SMS Role - Contract - Global Bank The Role Reporting to the Euro Support Team Manager, the Euro Support Production Engineer’s role is to provide support for the bank’s Windows 2000/2003/XP infrastructure & SMS 2.0/2003 environments within the Euro domain, geographically... Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Human Drums Back to top   Posted Apr 13 2007, 03:32 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; April 12, 2007

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter April 12, 2007 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the this newsletter or any of the other myITforum.com newsletters, click to manage your subscriptions. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes From the myITforum Community Calendar for April 13, 2007 I just realized after looking at the myITforum.com community calendar that tomorrow is Friday the 13th.  Nothing to worry about… Anyway, tomorrow, April 13, 2007, at 9:30AM Pacific Time, is a WebCast you may be interested in.  Read more about it… TechNet Webcast: Windows Vista Wireless Security and Management   The MMS 2007 gallery has been updated If you rifled through the photos before, make sure to refresh your browser… http://www.myitforum.com/MMS2007/index.html Keep the photos rolling in folks!   Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp   Back to top The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing By helping sponsor myITforum.com, you are also entered into the monthly SWAG drawing. Each month, we hold a drawing for some great SWAG, and your donation ensures that you have the opportunity to win! Based on your donation level, you increase your chances of winning. Read more about it... Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003 How to set up an SMS 2003 Distribution Point (DP) by Mike Reavis - 4/12/2007 Due to a few posts I have seen recently I have realized that we may have quite a few new SMS Admins out there in our community due to promotions. First of all, welcome. Second, thanks for coming here for your answers; you’ve made the right choice. MOM MOM Class Property Viewer by Don Hite - 4/12/2007 This HTA script will write all of the available MOM class properties to the current window for the class name specified in the specified input text box for your scripting reference. Scripting VBS Script To Write SMS Client Cache Configuration Information To Excel by Don Hite - 4/12/2007 This VBS script will take a list of SMS client machine names from a text file called MachineList.Txt and will write to following SMS cache configuration information to an excel spreadsheet: The cache’s present location, current size and if it is currently in use. SQL Server Sub-Select SQL Server Query Sample by Don Hite - 4/12/2007 This SQL server script is the equivalent of the WQL Sub-Select query to locate machines based on a collection that do not have a specified executable installed. Web Technologies HTA Script To Retrieve A Remote SMS Clients Cache Configuration Information by Don Hite - 4/12/2007 This HTA script will take an SMS client machine name from an input text box and then return the SMS clients cache configuration information including its present location, current size and if it is currently in use to the active window. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums   Topic Forum RE: Package restarting PC's - should not SMS 2003 SMS Reporting and Vista broken (crosspost) SMS 2003 RE: SMS "Download from remote distribution point" SMS 2003 SMS 2003 Reporting not working in Admin Console on Vista Web Reporting RE: ITMU v3 and x64 scan SMS 2003 RE: Missing patches in ITMU but present in WSUS SMS 2003 RE: Itmu 3.0 authentication SMS 2003 RE: What InstallSource if set download from distribution point SMS 2003 RE: SMS Restarts Period SMS 2003 RE: Unable to install april patches SMS 2003 questions on installing advanced client & legacy client SMS 2003 RE: ITMU error 11412 & how I fixed it. Your thoughts? SMS 2003 Where is the Advanced Client Network Account Password stored SMS 2003 Can we develop a WMI Hi-Performance Provider as de-coupled provider ? Windows Management Instrumentation RE: Monitor Serial Number using "monsernum.vbs" SMS 2003 Problem with Automated Deployment Services 1.1 Automated Deployment Services (ADS) Can not find the "surname" attribute in User Objects Active Directory and Group Policy RE: Hardware Inventory Report SMS 2003 RE: Not prompting to install Software Update Services/Windows Update Services RE: Run Delprof against 200 workstations (Problem) VB Script BDD 2.5 Issues Revisited - Need HELP! Operating System Deployment RE: USMT30/ZTI - basic question SMS Feature Packs RE: Client Health Monitoring Tool pivot table SMS 2003 RE: Is this a firewall issue? SMS 2003 RE: ITMU and non-critical updates? SMS 2003 SQL Server 2005 - MOF Edit SMS 2003 2 New Microsoft 0-Day Vulnerabilities?? Breaking Virus & Security News RE: SMS 2003 SP2 on Server 2003 R2 SP2 not working Correctly HELP! SMS 2003 RE: SiteBoundaries using AD sites instead of IP Subnets SMS 2003 RE: Active Directory Security Delegation - Rename User Active Directory and Group Policy   Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads  No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx  Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts More reasons to not run Vista right now... I blogged earlier that there is a known issue with HP laptops like mine with built-in SD/SC readers and Windows Vista, particularly when it comes to running wireless aircards which I simply can’t do without right now. Well, I’ve chosen to... by jgormly to John at myITforum.com   MMS 2007: BOF Transcript for Windows PowerShell http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2007/04/10/mms-2007-bof-transcript.aspx... by rodtrent to Rod Trent at myITforum.com   Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items Is there a consolidated document for installing, configuring, and managing OSD and BDD? Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates Microsoft Management Summit - Past, Present, Future   Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings Compugen, Inc. has many open positions Compugen is currently hiring for the following positions throughout Western Canada. For more information on these positions, please visit our website at www.compugen.com Edmonton Technical Service Representatives Corporate Account Manager Senior Consultant,...   AD / SMS Role - Contract - Global Bank The Role Reporting to the Euro Support Team Manager, the Euro Support Production Engineer’s role is to provide support for the bank’s Windows 2000/2003/XP infrastructure & SMS 2.0/2003 environments within the Euro domain, geographically... Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click The Llama Song Back to top   Posted Apr 12 2007, 02:54 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; April 11, 2007

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter April 11, 2007 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the this newsletter or any of the other myITforum.com newsletters, click to manage your subscriptions. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes SCCM07 Release, when? Want to reply to a note on today’s posts about SCCM 07 release time.   I saw Shaun’s post yesterday.  Ah, yes – as we near release, let the “RTM pool” begin!  But, I really want to warn folks of “speculation” and how much confusion it creates.  I also want to speak a little bit to what the process really looks like from here out so you can get a better feel for our dates and not have to “speculate”   So, speculation.  Each of you have a lot of experience in the world of managing IT projects, and you do have a good deal of expertise in thinking about how those may play out.  But, I will tell you that the moving parts of an app like this is probably not something that most of you have seen before.  4.8M lines of code – managed across our team and our partner teams that we rely so heavily upon.  I can tell you that it’s a WHOLE lot more than just some anecdotal feedback on bugs in determining the dates we promise to our 50,000 + enterprise customers.  Remember – we PLAN on finding bugs in the release process.  And we’ve built schedules/processes to mitigate those risks.  But, regardless of that fact - think about the “impact” of your speculation on your peers.  Hmm – MS says I should be doing my strategic planning around a certain date (Q3, CY 2007).  But, now I read a post that says that date is actually months later than that.  Wow – I really trust/respect the community because they give me a TON of helpful data in how to use SMS/SCCM on a daily basis.  And on SMS we are so fortunate to have a community that is second to NONE that I’ve seen.  So, do I change my strategy?  Do I delay my evaluation and deployment schedule?  It’s difficult for us to get critical info to all the SMS admins in the world in a consistent way.  Trust me – the dates we’re providing are to the best of our knowledge – based on what we know about the characteristics of this version, as well as what we know of our history (both bad, and good!).  I hate to see our customers that are making technical and business decisions based on our guidance start to second-guess that guidance.    So, let’s talk about that – the “believability” of projected release dates.  I won’t comment on all software products <G> – but I WILL talk to SMS/SCCM.  With SMS 2003 – I think many of you remember that process.  There were 2 parts in the process – some early dates we were hoping for, and then the bottoms-up dates that we put in place at design complete, code complete, and Beta 1.  Early dates are hard – and that’s why we try to stay fuzzy on things like a half year, or a full year.  We try to buffer from what we really don’t yet know the exact design/cost is going to be.  But, once we get to a bottoms-up schedule – our ability to hit it is pretty solid.  We hit Beta 1 for SMS 2003, and we sized the RTM date for Sept 2003 at that point.  Our actual RTM?  Oct 25th.  We found one reset bug in the Release Candidate process that forced another build, a quick re-deploy in TAP customers, and then sign-off.   What am I trying to say?  That the dates we’re putting out there are calculated based on a LOT of things we’ve seen before.  We’ve hit within a week on each of our first 2 Beta dates (Beta 2 was ACTUALLY a few days early!).  We’re driving to release candidate, and RTM.  If we miss release candidate, you will be the FIRST to know.  We will share with you what we know in the process so you can plan accordingly!  And, if we get a bug that sets the quality below what you have come to expect, we’ll fix it.  It’s more important to hit the quality bar than a date.   So, will we hit our ship date exactly?  Don’t know.  What I do know is that we’ll ship the product when it meets your expectations.  And, our track record has shown that at this part in the end game, our movement is days/weeks – not longer.  Finally, know that our passion/energy right now is all driven to get this feature set out the door to you as soon as we can, with that quality bar in mind.     Bill Anderson Lead Program Manager - System Center Configuration Manager (a.k.a - SMS) "If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse" - Henry Ford   Microsoft's Survey on Community - reminder Microsoft has launched an online survey targeted at getting a baseline on satisfaction with current Windows Enterprise Management community resources, sites, etc. In addition, they want to capture feedback on future needs, i.e. what Microsoft can do to improve the overall experience, i.e. creating a more “connected” experience across resources, etc. Here’s a link to the survey. Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp   Back to top The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing By helping sponsor myITforum.com, you are also entered into the monthly SWAG drawing. Each month, we hold a drawing for some great SWAG, and your donation ensures that you have the opportunity to win! Based on your donation level, you increase your chances of winning. Read more about it... Back to top Today's Articles System Center News Self-service in System Center Service Manager by Joseph Hinkle - 4/11/2007 I've been a big fan of the Service manager product since it was introduced last year at MMS. MMS 2007 was a real coming out party for the product, as there were several in-depth presentations on the current state and future of the product. System Center Configuration Manager SCCM07 Release, when? by Rod Trent - 4/11/2007 A note from From Bill Anderson to all of you about product releases. SMS 2003 How to get a command prompt in OSD by Christopher Stauffer - 4/11/2007 The Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) 2004 instance that SMS uses or a customized WinPE instance that SMS updates doesn't have a management console that you can use for troubleshooting purposes. MOM MOM 2005 Maintenance Mode by Don Hite - 4/11/2007 This post will provide you with information on how to place a MOM agent managed computer resource into maintenance mode from the MOM operator console or the command line and using the Microsoft MOM Resource Kit “MOM Information Utility”. Windows PowerShell Microsoft Developer Network Windows PowerShell Online Resources by Don Hite - 4/11/2007 Here you will find Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) online resources for PowerShell to refer back to for your reference. Windows Creating Multiple Domain User Accounts And Home Shares From A Spreadsheet by Don Hite - 4/11/2007 This VBS script will allow you to automatically create domain user accounts based on information from a spreadsheet. The script will create basic user account information such as the new users First Name, Initials, Last Name, Display Name and Description. Windows Mobile How Does Microsoft support its own Windows Mobile deployment? by John Gormly - 4/11/2007 About 75% of Microsoft employees have a Windows Mobile device. How does Microsoft deploy, manage and use Windows Mobile inside Microsoft? SQL Server SQL 2005 Class Property Viewer by Don Hite - 4/11/2007 This HTA script will write all of the available SQL class properties to the current window for the class name specified in the specified input text box for your scripting reference. Active Directory and Group Policy Creating Multiple Domain User Accounts And Home Shares From A Spreadsheet by Don Hite - 4/11/2007 This VBS script will allow you to automatically create domain user accounts based on information from a spreadsheet. The script will create basic user account information such as the new users First Name, Initials, Last Name, Display Name and Description. Microsoft Office Microsoft Office 2007 by Latisha Taxter - 4/11/2007 Installing and Customizing Office 2007. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums   Topic Forum showPicture("4/11/2007 10:06:45 AM",0,0,0,154505,4) showArrow("4/11/2007 10:06:45 AM",154505,4,false) Scheduled Maintenance Mode Task MOM showPicture("4/11/2007 10:00:53 AM",0,0,0,154449,130) showArrow("4/11/2007 10:00:53 AM",154449,130,false) RE: ITMU catalog problem April 10 patches SMS 2003 showPicture("4/11/2007 9:55:15 AM",0,0,0,154502,133) showArrow("4/11/2007 9:55:15 AM",154502,133,false) Zero Touch Installation Management Pack for BDD SMS Feature Packs showPicture("4/11/2007 9:52:37 AM",0,0,0,154488,130) showArrow("4/11/2007 9:52:37 AM",154488,130,false) RE: ITMU and WSUS using different catalogs ? SMS 2003 showPicture("4/11/2007 9:42:48 AM",0,0,0,154499,130) showArrow("4/11/2007 9:42:48 AM",154499,130,false) IMTU 3 and multi languages scenario SMS 2003 showPicture("4/11/2007 9:39:46 AM",0,0,0,153773,150) showArrow("4/11/2007 9:39:46 AM",153773,150,false) RE: OSD Issues - XP or Vista Operating System Deployment showPicture("4/11/2007 9:32:31 AM",0,0,0,154013,151) showArrow("4/11/2007 9:32:31 AM",154013,151,false) RE: SoftGrid Questions Softgrid showPicture("4/11/2007 9:24:32 AM",0,0,0,154491,23) showArrow("4/11/2007 9:24:32 AM",154491,23,false) RE: AD / SMS Role - Contract - Global Bank Job Board showPicture("4/11/2007 9:18:14 AM",0,0,0,154394,130) showArrow("4/11/2007 9:18:14 AM",154394,130,false) RE: Best Practice for Collection rights SMS 2003 showPicture("4/11/2007 9:06:40 AM",0,0,0,154480,130) showArrow("4/11/2007 9:06:40 AM",154480,130,false) RE: Migration from ZENWorks to SMS 2003 Questions SMS 2003 showPicture("4/11/2007 9:00:04 AM",0,0,0,154479,130) showArrow("4/11/2007 9:00:04 AM",154479,130,false) RE: Script for uninstall Java SMS 2003 showPicture("4/11/2007 8:53:09 AM",0,0,0,154435,130) showArrow("4/11/2007 8:53:09 AM",154435,130,false) RE: Query Application Version from text file SMS 2003 showPicture("4/11/2007 8:36:35 AM",0,0,0,154464,130) showArrow("4/11/2007 8:36:35 AM",154464,130,false) RE: Package restarting PC's - should not SMS 2003 showPicture("4/11/2007 8:32:18 AM",0,0,0,154484,130) showArrow("4/11/2007 8:32:18 AM",154484,130,false) RE: WQL query - check version WUA SMS 2003 showPicture("4/11/2007 7:34:06 AM",0,0,0,154482,130) showArrow("4/11/2007 7:34:06 AM",154482,130,false) Software updates problem SMS 2003 showPicture("4/11/2007 7:03:06 AM",0,0,0,154023,130) showArrow("4/11/2007 7:03:06 AM",154023,130,false) RE: How to deploy repackaged file? SMS 2003 showPicture("4/11/2007 4:32:16 AM",0,0,0,122011,130) showArrow("4/11/2007 4:32:16 AM",122011,130,false) RE: Collection based on AD Computer Description SMS 2003 showPicture("4/11/2007 3:33:52 AM",0,0,0,154354,133) showArrow("4/11/2007 3:33:52 AM",154354,133,false) RE: 80004005 Error from OSD SMS Feature Packs showPicture("4/11/2007 2:06:05 AM",0,0,0,154476,130) showArrow("4/11/2007 2:06:05 AM",154476,130,false) Hardware Inventory Report SMS 2003 showPicture("4/11/2007 1:04:15 AM",0,0,0,153789,133) showArrow("4/11/2007 1:04:15 AM",153789,133,false) RE: OSD & Drivers SMS Feature Packs showPicture("4/11/2007 1:03:10 AM",0,0,0,152915,133) showArrow("4/11/2007 1:03:10 AM",152915,133,false) RE: USMT Help SMS Feature Packs showPicture("4/11/2007 12:59:53 AM",0,0,0,154367,130) showArrow("4/11/2007 12:59:53 AM",154367,130,false) RE: conditional restarts SMS 2003 showPicture("4/11/2007 12:39:35 AM",0,0,0,154421,130) showArrow("4/11/2007 12:39:35 AM",154421,130,false) RE: Design question SMS 2003 showPicture("4/10/2007 11:13:06 PM",0,0,0,154468,60) showArrow("4/10/2007 11:13:06 PM",154468,60,false) Active Directory Security Delegation - Rename User Active Directory and Group Policy showPicture("4/10/2007 10:44:19 PM",0,0,0,154467,133) showArrow("4/10/2007 10:44:19 PM",154467,133,false) USMT30/ZTI - basic question SMS Feature Packs showPicture("4/10/2007 10:30:23 PM",0,0,0,154451,150) showArrow("4/10/2007 10:30:23 PM",154451,150,false) RE: RIS/WDS on Windows 2003 SP2 Operating System Deployment showPicture("4/10/2007 6:47:43 PM",0,0,0,154445,130) showArrow("4/10/2007 6:47:43 PM",154445,130,false) RE: Hey all you script guru's SMS 2003 showPicture("4/10/2007 6:11:11 PM",0,0,0,154398,7) showArrow("4/10/2007 6:11:11 PM",154398,7,false) RE: Prevent user from running VBS Scripts VB Script showPicture("4/10/2007 6:04:50 PM",0,0,0,154423,130) showArrow("4/10/2007 6:04:50 PM",154423,130,false) RE: generic workstation local id's SMS 2003 showPicture("4/10/2007 6:02:46 PM",0,0,0,154424,130) showArrow("4/10/2007 6:02:46 PM",154424,130,false) RE: ITMU v3 and Database size SMS 2003   Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx    Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts MOFMaster A few months ago, Dave Jaffe of www.SMSExpert.com asked if I would be interested in being " mofmaster@smsexpert.com " I was honored and flattered to be asked, but was hesitant at first. I certainly didn't consider myself a 'master of all things sms_def.mof'... by skissinger to Sherry Kissinger at myITforum.com   What do Altiris customers think about the Symantec acquisition? A quick look through the Altiris web-based forums, produced this nugget… http://forums.altiris.com/messageview.aspx?catid=15&threadid=39581&enterthread=y Interestingly, though, this is the only thread on the subject in their forums. Hmmm…you... by rodtrent to Rod Trent at myITforum.com   Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items No FAQ Items today If you have a question for the myITforum.com experts, drop out to the FAQ to ask a question: http://www.myitforum.com/faqs/afmmain.aspx Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. 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• myITforum Daily Newsletter; April 10, 2007

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter April 10, 2007 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the this newsletter or any of the other myITforum.com newsletters, click to manage your subscriptions. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Next CTSMUG Meeting - April 27th Mark your calendars! Our next CTSMUG meeting will be Friday, April 27th at the Microsoft Technology Center in Austin, TX. From the feedback at our last meeting, the most popular request was for a post-MMS wrap-up.  We will spend most of the day discussing highlights from MMS, as well as plenty of time for open discussion.  Keep an eye on this blog for a formal agenda!  Also, please send us any hot topics that you would like to discuss in detail at the meeting.   The myITforum Wiki has been upgraded! The myITforum.com Wiki service has been upgraded to the latest version.  The new version gives us some really cool new features to work with. Some of the really cool features are: 1. Page Categorization – A Category is a sort of tag you can apply to one or more Pages. Each Page can be bound with any number of Categories. 2. Page Discussion – Every Page of the Wiki has an associated Discussion, that is structured like a simple forum supporting nested replies for clarity. You can post messages to discuss the content of the Page, propose modifications and improvements, and so on. 3. Page Transclusion – Transclusion is the inclusion of part of a document into another document by reference. 4. Page Snippets – A Snippet is a typically small piece of text that can be included anywhere in the Wiki. A Snippet can contain WikiMarkup, XHTML and plain-text. 5. Better Print options — you can now get a printable version of each page for viewing offline. 6. Edit at Heading — you can now edit a small portion of the page, instead of having to edit the entire page for updates.  This is extremely useful when a Wiki page becomes long. Check it out…   The MMS 2007 photo gallery -- so far... Here’s the first run at putting the MMS 2007 photos we’ve received in a standard format: http://www.myitforum.com/mms2007/index.html Keep sending in those photos.  We’ll be updating the gallery regularly. We’ll also pretty it up a bit better later on when we have more photos available. If you visit once and come back, make sure to refresh your browser.  We’re adding new photos constantly.  As an update, I just uploaded several new photos from Julius Di Filippo and had to refresh the browser before I could see them.   Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp   Back to top The myITforum.com Monthly SWAG Drawing By helping sponsor myITforum.com, you are also entered into the monthly SWAG drawing. Each month, we hold a drawing for some great SWAG, and your donation ensures that you have the opportunity to win! Based on your donation level, you increase your chances of winning. Read more about it... Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003 The SMS 2003 Capacity Planners Topology Planning Tool by Don Hite - 4/10/2007 The SMS 2003 capacity planner’s topology planning tool (Topology Entry Form) allows you to layout your physical SMS infrastructure site(s) before you implement your SMS 2003 infrastructure. It also allows you to see how your present SMS layout exists for your SMS infrastructure for your documentatio System Center Operations Manager MOM 2005 and OM 2007 Exchange 2003 Management Pack Issue by Andy Dominey - 4/10/2007 In the MOM 2005 version of the Exchange Management Pack, there was a script issue with the OWA logon script. This issue still exists in the OM 2007 Exchange Management Pack. Unfortunately, with OM 2007, the Management Pack is sealed so the script cannot be changed to fix this. MOM MOM 2005 and OM 2007 Exchange 2003 Management Pack Issue by Andy Dominey - 4/10/2007 In the MOM 2005 version of the Exchange Management Pack, there was a script issue with the OWA logon script. This issue still exists in the OM 2007 Exchange Management Pack. Unfortunately, with OM 2007, the Management Pack is sealed so the script cannot be changed to fix this. Scripting VBScript to extract Hotfix CAB files from MSU files for BDD Offline Patching by Jason Scheffelmaer - 4/10/2007 A vbscript that automates the extraction of hotfix cab files from the downloaded msu files to be used in BDD Workbench Packages area for offline patching. Windows PowerShell Uninstalling Windows PowerShell 1.0 Workaround by Don Hite - 4/10/2007 Recently I read Greg Ramsey's article entitled "Running PowerShell in Server 2003?" in which he stated: Patch Management VBScript to extract Hotfix CAB files from MSU files for BDD Offline Patching by Jason Scheffelmaer - 4/10/2007 A vbscript that automates the extraction of hotfix cab files from the downloaded msu files to be used in BDD Workbench Packages area for offline patching. Windows Configuring Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Logging by Don Hite - 4/10/2007 Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Logging can be configured or adjusted by making modifications to the registry. You can manage or change the location of the log files or configure the logging aspects and even disable them if needed. SQL Server Using The DBCC ErrorLog Command To Cycle SQL Error Log Files by Don Hite - 4/10/2007 Whenever your SQL server is restarted the Error log is recreated as errorlog (With No file extension) and your existing error log is renamed to errorlog.1 while the previously existing errorlog.1 is saved as errrolog.2 and so on. Active Directory and Group Policy Windows 2003 Active Directory Master Roles by Don Hite - 4/10/2007 Windows 2003 Active Directory Master Roles. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums   Topic Forum Sober.AA and Bagle.HR - New Variants emerge Breaking Virus & Security News RE: conditional restarts SMS 2003 RE: SoftGrid Questions Softgrid RE: KB 826865 SMS 2003 RE: Network Login Windows Server RE: Advertisement problem SMS 2003 RE: 80004005 Error from OSD SMS Feature Packs RE: Adding VMWare SCSI driver SMS Feature Packs RE: remove selected systems from a collection SMS 2003 RE: Monitor Serial Number using "monsernum.vbs" SMS 2003 RE: MS07-017 A continuation SMS 2003 RE: change site boundary and remove a parent site SMS 2003 RE: Network Printer Windows Server RE: ADS deployment agent Automated Deployment Services (ADS) RE: ITMU - Distribute Software Updates Wizard for x64 SMS 2003 RE: ITMU error 11412 & how I fixed it. Your thoughts? SMS 2003 RE: Softgrid 4.1.0.56 Streaming Issues for Branch Sites Softgrid RE: Softgrid, SMS Connector and SMS 2003 Softgrid RE: Troubleshooting BDD/WinPe initialization issue. SMS Feature Packs Single-server installation anyone? System Center Operations Manager RE: deploy to all workstation SMS 2003 RE: SMS WOL capability SMS 2003 RE: deploy software based on registry SMS 2003 Windows DS DLLs not available Operating System Deployment RE: ITMU v3 SMS 2003 RE: removing software through sms SMS 2003   Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx    Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Tips for New SoftGrid Admins More and more attention is being directed to SoftGrid and it is nice to see that there is a TechNet blog on it. Below is some introductory information for those new to SoftGrid. We know there are a lot of you out there who are new to SoftGrid or who will... by aclendenen to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer   Download Operations Manager 2007 Webcasts You can download this set of webcasts for System Center Operations Manager 2007 for offline viewing at your convenience. The list includes the individual webcasts listed below and is 185MB. Add Monitoring with a Management Pack Template Presenters: Omar... by aclendenen to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer   Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items No new FAQ items today. Drop by the myITforum.com FAQ and submit a question or read through the questions already answered: http://www.myitforum.com/faqs/afmmain.aspx Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates Wake-on-LAN Technologies Microsoft Management Summit - Past, Present, Future   Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings Compugen, Inc. has many open positions Compugen is currently hiring for the following positions throughout Western Canada. For more information on these positions, please visit our website at www.compugen.com Edmonton Technical Service Representatives Corporate Account Manager Senior Consultant,... Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Online Symptom Search Back to top   Posted Apr 10 2007, 02:33 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter