PWStrain - All Comments

re: MMS : WrapUp

pwstrain — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:25:05 GMT

Well said. I wasn't going to comment on the food at the closing party, but I would certainly feel exactly the same way if I had paid to bring someone to it.

I've posted a starting point of in the [Site Forums] section as a spot to place our ideas for sessions next year. I know some Micro$ofties read this forum, hopefully they'll take note.

re: MMS : WrapUp

MReavis — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:46:14 GMT

Hoping to make it to 2009, but do not think I will waste another $85.00 bring my wife to the closing party. I heard about Los Lobos, got to see Jim Belishi and Dan Akroyd, enjoyed Sea World and the block party, and Circus Circus was ok but not what I was expecting as a follow up, nor my wife. I really think the MS should give warning about what the event is going to be before they start selling braclets. I really expected better from MS on such a major year with SCCM, SCOM, and Server 08 in full release. I believe a lot of us left early due to the noise from the DJ, and the horderves they were serving. What happened to the theme bars? Quite frankly I was very dissapointed, yes the XBox farm was ok for the kids, but they probably set up Xbox parties all the time.

For the past 3 years I have commented to MS on the exit survey that the food during the summit is ok, but as this is a US event, and we have many travelers from all over, why not do some simple American food for lunch? Pizza or hotdogs and burgers? Coldcuts and chips? or at least offer an alternative to gourmet lunches. And how about getting the eggs done? Seems we get runny scrambled eggs every year.

OK, enough about the food, and the Thursday night fiasco. About the event itself, I agree 100%, need deeper sessions, or at least not the same old sessions. I enjoy getting together with friends I only see once a year, but I am also there to learn, and maybe to teach as well. I vow to try and come up with at least one new idea for a class for 2009, and ask all of you seasoned pros to do the same. This is summit after all was started for the users, right? You know who you are, I am always learning from you in the forums, time for us to get together and stand infront of the audience instead of just watching.

re: Another W00t! (More self-pimpery)

rodtrent — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:09:12 GMT

Congrats!

re: At last, System Center Service Manager Info

rodtrent — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:49:08 GMT

Unfortunately, I believe folks will see this as negative, no matter how much spin MS and others put on it.

re: W00T!

rodtrent — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:31:16 GMT

Congrats!

re: Call Maintenance:

pwstrain — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:33:38 GMT

I wish I knew. Some unknown gravity - deprived individual. And his cat.

re: Call Maintenance:

rodtrent — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:38:07 GMT

Who is that?

re: Vista Security?

pwstrain — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:14:11 GMT

Interesting. My guess is that there is no password set on the disabled administrator account. Thanks for the info.

re: Vista Security?

Roger — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:01:13 GMT

Did you have a password set on the administrator account?

Lest you be too shocked, don't forget the immutable law of security Law #3: If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore

Also review this post on the vista security blog. blogs.msdn.com/.../windowsvistasecurity_.aspx

"On non-domain joined computers, when there is at least one enabled local administrator account, safe mode will not allow logon with the disabled built-in administrator account. Instead, any local administrator account can be used to logon. If the last local administrator account is inadvertently demoted, disabled or deleted, safe mode will allow the disabled built-in administrator account to logon for disaster recovery. "

re: Pushing the client

pwstrain — Thu, 24 May 2007 05:22:59 GMT

No doubt.

Live and learn.

Rest assured that when we roll out either the SP3 or 2007 client, it will be strictly by the book.

re: Pushing the client

mniehaus — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:38:22 GMT

This is why the SMS 2003 client deployment guidance says to use CCMSETUP.EXE to do the client installation, rather than installing the client.msi directly. If you do this, it will cache the client.msi locally so that repairs can be performed from the local path.

re: WOL

SMSExpert — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:42:55 GMT

This should prove useful for those who will allow subnet broadcasting on their routers.

From the user guide:

"you are going to be sending WOL packets from remote networks, the routers must be configured to allow directed broadcasts."

Unforutnately this limiting factor is why most people choose a 3rd party applications Like SMS Companion to perform this functionality for both the performance and security.

Nice job though and glad you found something that works well for you!

myITforum Daily Newsletter; May 22, 2007

myITforum Newsletters — Tue, 22 May 2007 11:55:57 GMT

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MMS memories -- by Paul Strain

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Mon, 21 May 2007 17:47:53 GMT

Paul just started blogging here at myITforum.com, but he’s already had a couple great posts. One