MMS2008 - Thursday 1
Session: Device Management on ConfigMgr. It was interesting; but since we're 99.9% blackberries, and with SC Mobile Manager; I think if we're going to go with a management product, probably we'd go with Mobile Manager. Although maybe (if time permits), deploy just the inventory piece, just so we know what's out there.
Session: SUS in ConfigMgr.
Session: Case Studies Deep Dive. Some good tips on log files to check, utilities to use (procmon) when troubleshooting an issue. Pointed out a script for refreshingServerComplianceState if you happened to have accidentally deleted a record in the console--to get installed hotfixes reported correctly, you may need to deploy that to those clients. A good walkthrough on what log files to hit when tracing a SW distrib.
My favorite (because sms_def.mof/configuration.mof were mentioned, I'm such a geek): reporting stuff go in sms_def.mof, new classes go into configuration.mof. I've actually seen that 2-3 times from people either in the forums or email to me; where they are trying a new mof snippet, and their Hardware Inventory Action disappears from the client's Agent listing. That happens because technically the mof snippet added passes a mofcomp -check, so it is compiled successfully, but it confuses the client; so the client just gives up on HW Inv.
Another good one... when the firmware on the client computer isn't up-to-date, and the end user turns off their computer by holding in the power button for several seconds; the WOL magic packet "doesn't work". The read-between-the-lines I got out of that was </sarcasm on> 'of course ConfigMgr is broken' </sarcasm off> :-) . The fix was to update the bios firmware and/or change the BIOS setting of "when holding down the power button, go into suspend, not power off". The presenter mentioned that other computers doing start/shutdown worked just fine in this company. Apparently, the train-the-user how to click Start, Shutdown to politely shutdown their computer was not an option for this particular call. *shrug* I'm guessing that the solution of 'problem is between the chair and the computer' wasn't a politically correct response. :-)
Tonight: the closing party. If I remember right it's "themed bars" (whatever that means), and Xbox Rock Band competitions. Since the MyItforum booth had RockBand available for people to practice on for tonight... I'm hoping for a couple good "bands"!