Rickym61 @ MyITForum.com

Forum-mailing-list-newsgroup-etiquette

2009-06-02T17:58:00Z

Excellent blog article from Garth Jones on Forum/Mialing list etiquette, well worth a read. http://smsug.ca/blogs/garth_jones/archive/2009/06/01/forum-mailing-list-newsgroup-etiquette.aspx...(read more)

Directory Of Microsoft Team Blogs

2009-05-24T23:11:00Z

Here is a blog that contains links to all the Microsoft Blogs out there, all categorized into products & technologies.. http://blogs.technet.com/blogms/pages/directory-of-microsoft-team-blogs.aspx We now have blogs to tell us about blogs, blogs here, blogs there, old McDonald had a blog, ee-eye, ee-eye oh...(read more)

Twitter App on Windows Mobile Smartphone.

2009-05-23T13:17:00Z

I recently joined the world of Twitter, you can see all updates in 1 place, nice and easy to view. You can follow me with @rickym61.

Having a Windows Mobile Smart-phone, running WM 6 Standard, I wanted to keep in touch with all the updates on the go, I started with just using the standard Twitter mobile page, but this wasn't feature rich enough for me, so went searching for an application I could use on my windows mobile, I stumbled across Twikini, so I gave it a go, I was pleased with the features it has, its been updated twice with new features, i'm sure it wont be the last time, you can download it from here http://www.trinketsoftware.com/Twikini

Main Features

FAST! Unlike other Twitter apps for Windows® Mobile, Twikini is written entirely in native C++ code for maximum performance and the fastest load time possible.
Simple, uncluttered, and customizable user interface. Choose from a variety of themes for the best reading experience.
Post tweets using a full screen editor. Optionally, set your location (either manually, using GPS coordinates, or geocoding) along with your status updates.
Send and receive Direct Messages.
Twitpic integration to post photos with your status updates. Select existing photos or click new ones from your device's camera. When reading tweets, view Twitpics inline (without having to open a separate browser). (Screenshot)
Read status updates just like browsing a web page. Quickly reply, retweet, favorite, or email other people's tweets.
Windows Media Player integration. Automatically tweet the song and artist you're listening to. See a realtime feed of other people using it on Twitter.
URL shortening services including Bit.ly, TinyURL and Digg.
Single download that is compatible with all Windows® Mobile devices - both touch and non-touch.
And lots more...

How to repair WMI

2009-05-22T17:07:00Z

This link was posted on the SMS dicussion list, so adding it to my blog so I can easily find it if needed and also hopefully helps others. http://rexcrisostomo.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-to-repair-wmi.html Also wmidiag.vbs is soon to be updated, watch this space, no eta obviously...(read more)

Troubleshooting common problems with site assignment

2009-05-19T15:18:00Z

New blog over on the ConfigMgr site on "Troubleshooting common problems with site assignment" http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/archive/2009/05/19/troubleshooting-common-problems-with-site-assignment.aspx...(read more)

Five new Configuration Manager Knowledge Base articles for the week ending 05/16/2009

2009-05-18T19:29:00Z

Five new Configuration Manager Knowledge Base articles for the week ending 05/16/2009 KB969530 - The Ccmexec.exe process may consume almost 100 percent of CPU resources on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 clients KB968718 - You cannot customize the ramdisk TFTP block size on a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 site server that has the Pre-Boot Execution Environment (PXE) service point role KB969341 - Delta merge may fail on System Center Configuration Manager 2007...(read more)

listing all the views or tables of a database

2009-05-17T12:32:00Z

Handy quick sql command guide from Marcus Oh on finding tables/views, again keeping here so I can find it if ever needed. http://marcusoh.blogspot.com/2009/05/listing-all-views-or-tables-of-database.html...(read more)

SQL Pretty Printer: beautify the messy sql code instantly!

2009-05-16T22:41:00Z

At MMS 2009, during "SQL Performance Tips for SMS and ConfigMgr Reporting Gurus" session by Brian Mason and Steve Thompson, this neat tool was featured and bought to the worlds attention (or those that never knew about it). This tool will even make John Nelson aka #2 happy so he doesnt have to see any ugly formatted SQL code (I will update the exact quote from Brian Mason shortly, lol) SQL Pretty Printer is available from here @ wangz.net current cost is $39.95 with a 15 day money back...(read more)

MMS 2009 - A week in Paradise by Josh Pointer (Group Program Manager for System Center Configuration Manager)

2009-05-16T20:38:00Z

After being at MMS for the 1st time this year, experiencing the whole buzz, this post sums it up, I just read this post by Josh Pointer, for those who don't know who is Josh is, (I didnt until MMS) he is the Group Program Manager for System Center Configuration Manager. In his role, Josh is responsible for delivery for the vision of, and features that ship in, Configuration Manager v.next 'The State Of The Union' session was 1 of my favourites, the passion shown by the Product team, the...(read more)

SCCM Client Center – PSExec Tweak

2009-01-24T00:41:00Z

Roger Zander has released v2 of his famous Client Center tool, if you don't know what it is, I highly recommend it, you can get it from here . Here is a tweak which will let you run PSExec from the custom command tool instead of just a standard command prompt. Download PSExec from Windows Sysinternals copy PSExec.exe to install location (default is) “C:\Program Files\SCCM Tools\SCCM Client Center” Edit SMSCliCtrV2.exe.config Change the following values: From To...(read more)

Cool Firefox Addon’s - Cooliris | CoolPreviews

2009-01-10T22:27:00Z

Recently stumbled across these add-ons for your favourite browsers, Firefox, IE6 only... makes browsing a lot more fun and easier. Cooliris | Discover More CoolPreviews by Cooliris, Inc. Click-less browsing CoolPreviews (formerly Cooliris Previews) is a free browser add-on that lets you preview links and rich media without clicking or leaving your current page, so you can browse the web faster than ever. Simply mouseover your link or our CoolPreviews icon, and a preview window instantly appears with...(read more)

Date of SMS/SCCM Collections - RonsWebRemoteTools

2009-01-10T22:11:00Z

Here is an add-on to Ron's Web Remote Tools page, to check the last time a Collection was updated, this works for both SMS & SCCM. This will pop up an hta and present the Collection ID, Collection Name & Time Last Updated of all your collections. Edit machrest.asp (take a back up, always better to be on the safe side) add the following around line 80ish or at the end of your other buttons, <input style='WIDTH: 180px' type='button' value='Date of SMS Collections'...(read more)

ConfigMgr ClientTroubleShooter - RonsWebRemoteTools

2009-01-10T16:25:00Z

Here is an add-on to Ron's Web Remote Tools page to check the a PC’s ConfigMgr Client Health state using Greg Ramsey’s ConfigMgr Client Trouble-shooter, more details about this available here Edit machrest.asp (take a back up, always better to be on the safe side) add the following around line 80ish or at the end of your other buttons, <input style='WIDTH: 180px' type='button' value='ConfigMgr Client Troubleshooter' name='Btn760' ID='Button760'> Add...(read more)

SMS ClientTroubleShooter - RonsWebRemoteTools

2009-01-10T16:10:00Z

Here is an add-on to Ron's Web Remote Tools page to check the a PC’s SMS Client Health state using Greg Ramsey’s SMS 2003 Client Troubleshooter, more details about this available here Edit machrest.asp (take a back up, always better to be on the safe side) add the following around line 80ish or at the end of your other buttons, <input style='WIDTH: 180px' type='button' value='Client Troubleshooter' name='Btn747' ID='Button747'> Add the following sub...(read more)

PC Uptime Since last boot - RonsWebRemoteTools

2009-01-10T15:38:00Z

Here is an add-on to Ron's Web Remote Tools page to find the PC’s uptime since its last boot up on a given machine, it will prompt you for the machine name, then open up notepad and display similar to “\\PCNAME has been up for: 0 day(s), 2 hour(s), 9 minute(s), 1 second(s)” Edit machrest.asp (take a back up, always better to be on the safe side) add the following around line 80ish or at the end of your other buttons, <input style='WIDTH: 180px' type='button' value='PC uptime...(read more)