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The Microsoft Management Summit is the best conference on Earth (I’ve not checked the one’s on Mars yet, so I can’t speak to that). MMS has always been the best place to catch up on System Center products, attend labs, and develop friendships and networking contacts to help you manage your environment. The cool thing is – myITforum has been part of MMS since the very beginning. If you want to learn about that, drop out to the MMS Wiki and read all about it and even grab the RSS feed:
http://www.myitforum.com/myITWiki/MMS.ashx
During my talks at MMS, I ask the same question each year: “How many people are familiar with myITforum?”
In the early days, even with smaller attendance numbers, the majority of people did not know about myITforum. These days, even with the larger attendance numbers (i.e., 3,000 or 4,000 people), the majority of people know about myITforum and use its services daily.
With our long history with MMS, its should be no surprise that we also provide many services in conjunction with MMS. So, this post is kind of a reminder for all of you that:
- myITforum is the place to go for MMS 2010 information, and
- Its time to start thinking about getting approval to attend MMS 2010, if you haven’t already.
We have a couple docs to help you justify your attendance for MMS 2010. You basically just grab these docs, tailor them to your own needs, and send them off to your manager for approval. These docs are a sure-fire way to be able to attend MMS, meet the myITforum folks (System Center community), and become part of a System Center tradition.
Here’s the docs:
Henry Wilson's MMS 2010 Cost Justification Document
MMS 2010 Request to Management
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One of the most important common ways partners and customers will extend Service Manager is to create custom connectors to get data into the system. There are many ways of doing this and we will catalog all of them at this blog post.
System Center Service Manager : How to Write a Custom Connector: CSV Connector Example
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On a computer that is running Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1), you have the following features:
- Software distribution
- Software update management
- Desired configuration management
However, the following products are not listed as supported platforms for these features: - Windows 7
- Windows Server 2008 R2
An update is available that lets you add Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as supported platforms for Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1
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The script attached below can be used to remove any tools that you have registered in the SMS Admin console. These are the ones that you see when you right click an object under the 'SMS Tools' menu
www.training4sc.com - Unregister all SMS Tools
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Lately I’ve been busy creating some OpsMgr Custom Reports for customers and wanted to share some tips & tricks for creating custom OpsMgr Reports. Hope you can use them in your own custom OpsMgr Reports.
Stefan Stranger's Weblog - Manage your IT Infrastructure : OpsMgr Custom Reporting Tips & Tricks
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Wrote this little PHP-application for demostrating webmonitors in System Center Operations Manager 2007.
It will probably work for any monitoring solution that catches http errorcodes or textstrings on a page:
snowland.se DemoService : 200 OK
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Check out the new ConfigMgr 2007/SMS 2003 query Wiki and grab as many as you can:
http://www.myitforum.com/myITWiki/ConfigMgr-2007-SMS-2003-Ready-Made-Queries.ashx
Also, grab the RSS feed so you can be notified as new queries are added:
http://www.myitforum.com/myITWiki/RSS.aspx?Page=ConfigMgr-2007-SMS-2003-Ready-Made-Queries
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If you are looking for the Configuration Packs for ConfigMgr 2007, Microsoft has moved them to their new Pinpoint search management facility. There’s currently no defined way of finding them except to use Pinpoint’s search engine. However, here is the search URL for quick access:
http://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/SearchResults.aspx?qs=configuration%20pack&fl=&fpf=700004&fst=1
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When the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 console is running on a server with a connection to the Internet, the top node in the console automatically connects to the Microsoft TechNet site to display the System Center Configuration Manager TechCenter. In Configuration Manager 2007 SP1, you can modify the registry to prevent the console from contacting the Internet to display the TechCenter page.
The information in this topic applies only to Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 and later.
To prevent the System Center Configuration Manager console from downloading the TechCenter home page
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In a registry editor, locate the key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\ConfigMgr\AdminUI.
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Create a new DWORD value DisableHomePage.
You do not need to set any data for the DisableHomePage value; if the value exists, the console will not attempt to connect to the TechCenter home page.
How to Prevent the Home Page from Downloading the TechCenter Page on Microsoft.com
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Microsoft lost an appeal in a patent case brought by software company i4i, and a federal court has prohibited the Redmond company from selling any more copies of Word and Office 2007 that have the infringing feature after Jan. 11.
Read the rest: myITforum.com, Inc.
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At long last, here is the second half of the interview with Mikael Nystrom. Enjoy.
Interview with Mikael Nystrom (Part 2 of 2) « The Realm of the Verbal Processor
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We have recently updated the Configuration Manager Documentation Library regarding site boundary configurations. This change was made to clarify the use of supernets, which remain unsupported but have been a source of confusion resulting in support calls. The confusion comes when an Active Directory site is configured as a boundary and that Active Directory site contains one or more supernets.
System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog : Known Issue: Supernets in Active Directory Sites Used as Site Boundaries
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In my June 2008 TechNet Magazine article I introduced the Elevation Gadget. This Windows Sidebar Gadget functioned as drag and drop target to elevate programs, scripts, etc. Version 2 sports an updated look and can now be enlarged (enlarges when undocked on Windows Vista, enlarges via the Size control on Windows 7). However, the biggest change is the addition of a command box. Below are a few screen shots.
Elevation PowerToys for Windows : Elevation Gadget 2.0
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This is something I see in almost all clients when we perform a PFE Health Check. The customer will have lots of data being inserted into the OpsDB from agents, about monitors that are constantly changing state. This can have a very negative effect on overall performance of the database – because it can be a lot of data, and the RMS is busy handling the state calculation, and synching this data about the state and any alert changes to the warehouse.
Many times the OpsMgr admin has no idea this is happening, because the alerts appear, and then auto-resolve so fast, you never see them – or don’t see them long enough to detect there is a problem. I have seen databases where the statechangeevent table was the largest in the database – caused by these issues.
Too many state changes are generally caused by one or both, of two issues:
Kevin Holman's OpsMgr Blog : Tuning tip: Do you have monitors constantly “flip flopping” ?
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I have written many articles in the past on HealthService restarts. A HealthService restart is when the agent breaches a pre-set threshold of Memory use, or handle count use, and OpsMgr bounces the agent HealthService to try and correct the condition.
Kevin Holman's OpsMgr Blog : The new and improved guide on HealthService Restarts. Aka – agents bouncing their own HealthService