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• Moniitor your ConfigMgr\SMS2003 Backups via a report

  Essentially I wanted to know what sites haven't backed up within a given date range (a day and a half since last backup), and those that have never backed up (never reported a backup). Groovy stuff, not so easy to determine though, or so it would... Posted May 04 2011, 10:33 AM by Robs Blog - MVP in the dark arts Filed under: SMS2003, Reporting, Backup, Monitoring, ConfigMgr, Management

• SMS2003 - Service accounts being used

  I wrote this a fair few years ago, it's for those environments still running SMS2003 who opted to use Normal Security (Service Accounts, harking back to SMS 2.0 here!) instead of using Advanced Security (computer accounts). The script, all it does... Posted Apr 28 2011, 06:22 AM by Robs Blog - MVP in the dark arts Filed under: SMS2003, vbscript, Normal Security, Service Accounts, Site Control File

• Important: SMS2003 ITMU Patch issue for April 2010 patch set

  Defo one to watch out for if you're using SMS2003 + ITMU to deploy the April 2010 patch set The ConfigMgr support team blog: We've been getting some calls about this one so I thought it deserved a mention here. If you're having some ITMU related... Posted May 11 2010, 04:29 AM by Robs Blog - MVP Filed under: SMS2003, Patching, April 2010, ITMU

• SMS2003 support (almost) comes to an end ... Come on, time to upgrade!

  Bless her cotton socks, good old SMS2003 moves out of mainstream support at the end of January, and it's site on the microsoft domain has had a refresh and has now become more of a portal to assist in migrating from SMS2003 to ConfigMgr. This doesn't... Posted Jan 14 2010, 06:48 AM by Robs Blog - MVP Filed under: SMS2003, Support, Mainstream, Extended

• Recent SMS2003/ConfigMgr 2007 KB Articles

  Round of of recent KB articles (courtesy of the ConfigMgr Support Team Blog) KB976073 - The Windows Deployment Service stops responding when you use a PXE service point on a computer that is running a System Center Configuration Managr 2007 SP1 site server... Posted Jan 08 2010, 09:05 AM by Robs Blog - MVP Filed under: SMS2003, ConfigMgr 2007, KB Articles

• SMS2003 - How to easily create reports - For reporting first-timers and the like

  I was pondering (like you do) how accessible report creation is in SMS2003. It requires a few skills to be under-your-belt (SQL, SQL tools, areas in SMS) before you can master this subject enough to produce quality reports. And, well I was taught (back... Posted Apr 15 2008, 09:14 AM by Robs Blog Filed under: SMS2003, Reporting

• SMS2003, creating an Advertisement with a single assignment

  A collegue of mine spent hours researching how to create a simple advertisement assignment. He was using the SDK in VBScript and was frustrated at the lack of easy-to-digest information out there. He'd arrived at MSDN, Technet, poured over the SMS2003... Posted Apr 01 2008, 10:40 AM by Robs Blog Filed under: SMS2003, Scripting

• SMS2003: Script to change SDK Site Control File Delta on remote SMS Site server

  Folks, Wrote another little VBScript , this one to change the SDK Site Control File delta value on a remote SMS Site server. This script affects the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\COMPONENTS\SMS_SITE_CONTROL_MANAGER\Sites section of the Registry... Posted Feb 07 2008, 06:11 AM by Robs Blog Filed under: SMS2003, Scripting

• SnowSoftware - Snow License Manager for SMS

  Rod Trent over at MyITForum blogged about this , looks like quite a cool tool so wanted to reblog here. Snow License Manager automatically combines infrastructure information provided by Microsoft SMS® with information such as software contracts, purchased... Posted Jan 09 2008, 08:44 AM by Robs Blog Filed under: General, SMS2003, Technology