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Thursday, August 09, 2007 9:32 PM

Deleting SMS Objects (collections, etc.) via Script

Summary: computer management done on any significant scale and long enough will create lots of objects that need to be cleaned up. Manually doing that cleanup would be prohibitively laborious and tedious...
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Monday, June 04, 2007 11:43 PM

A scripted SMS Trace

Summary: SMS Trace (trace32.exe) is the core tool in every SMS administrator's toolkit. But do you really have time to be watching logs fly by? Why not script what you need to watch for and thus let...
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Saturday, May 26, 2007 11:57 PM

The ultimate computer management console

Summary: computer management is a mutli-disciplined art form that is very computer intensive. You need a lot of applications open at any time to do the job right. How do you keep an eye on all of them...
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:21 PM

Monitoring SQL Server Replication to Standalone MPs

Summary: if you have standalone SMS management points, you may use SQL Server replication to them. How do you monitor that replication? I've scripted my most useful checks, allowing quick checks on...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:17 PM

CIM Studio on 64-bit consoles

It's hard to do computer management without WMI. For a lot of us that means we use CIM Studio on a regular basis. There are alternatives, such as wbemtest, but my experience is that for ongoing WMI...
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