September 2006 - Posts
SMS 2003 Certfitcation Question Of The Week
Just a friendly reminder, if one of your goals was to get SMS certified by the end of the year, October – the 10th month of the year – starts in a couple days… You are the SMS Engineer for myITforum.com. Your site has a single SMS site. You take your SMS database offline for maintenance and after bringing it back online you notice the sinv.box, the dataldr.box, and the swmproc.box...
How To Trap The Exit Code With VBS From an MSI Package
From the forums: http://www.myitforum.com/forums/m_142866/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm#142884 Original source: VBScript & SMS packaging? - 9/27/2006 10:05:05 PM No New Messages jsichak Starting Member Posts: 25 Score: 0 Joined: 5/26/2005 Status: offline Does anyone know if there is a good way to pass error codes from an MSI or other external application from a VBScript to SMS? We have done several packages...
Two More Vista Tools - Group Policy Docs and Standard User Mode Testing Tool
Two revisions to some previous tools make the list of downloads today. The first one is the step-by-step Vista deployment guide. In this one they have added more group policy documentation, including some other new or revised docs. The second one is for testing applications in standard user mode, or non-admin. This tool will help you determine if an application is going to cause you headaches when...
Intel Quad Core Processors in Novemeber 80 cores by 2012
Intel confirmed that quad core processors will hit the shelves in November of this year for their Xeon lineup and Extreme processors. They will release the main stream desktop quad processor in Q1 of 07 along with a lower power consumption Xeon 5300. Next year they plan to introduce the first notebook motherboard that makes use of flash memory and 802.11n, code named Santa Rosa. They also discussed...
Vista - Handwriting and Getting Your Mobile Devices To Sync
The first post (below) is about the handwriting in Vista. If you use Tablet this is worth the download to check out the screencast, he tries very hard to make it not work and it just works. I have decent handwriting so I don’t have many problems converting mine to text, but it also shows a cool new feature for editing words. The second one is getting mobile devices to work with Vista pre-release...
Getting Windows 2003 SP1 Admin Tools Under Vista
I got a question about getting the admin tools to work with Vista today. I don’t use Vista for this purpose but I thought I would pass it along, as we get closer to the final I know more people will use it to do admin type work. In Vista beta 2 you cannot install the Windows 2003 admin tools pack because of the version checking. To get around this you need to remove the check from the installer...
Registry hacks for the Windows Vista screensavers at istartedsomething
Long has done it again… Original source: Registry hacks for the Windows Vista screensavers Published September 9th, 2006 microsoft , windows , vista --> The sad sad fact is Windows Vista will be shipping with screensavers without the options to be configured, however they were originally designed to be customizable. Stephen Coy tells me this feature might be available after Vista ships, perhaps...
Don Hite : SMS Console Version 1.3
Don always has some great info on his blog, in case you don’t visit his (WHY?), here is a repost of the SMS Console tools. Original source: SMS Console Version 1.3 out of Beta Stuart Watret and company at Offshore-IT have released the SMS console Tools version 1.3 after a lively beta run. This version is a single MSI based executable and provides you with all your favorite SMS context menu tools...
New Printer Prints at 10 MPH or 529 lbs per Hour
Or maybe it is just 1,000 PPM? It is Sunday, or more commonly referred to as Football day, at least at my house. Of course that pesky church thing gets in the way. Maybe I should donate some equipment to allow them to stream and then I could PIP it! Printing on demand gets really closer to reality. Original source: Researchers create a 1,000 page-per-minute printer Posted Sep 22nd 2006 5:55AM by Cyrus...
Compare The Four Vista Inerfaces
Long has done a great job of creating a page with screen shots that will allow you to compare the four Vista UI levels, Aero, Standard, Basic, and Classic with just a mouse over. Here is a sample, but visit his blog to get a better look! Aero Glass Vista Standard Vista Basic Windows Classic Original source: Windows Vista: The “choose your own adventure” UI at istartedsomething . '> Listen...
User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
Do you get those annoying End Now dialog boxes when you are rebooting? Do you see errors in event viewer about the registry not being unloaded? Well now there is a cleanup tool from Microsoft to help eliminate those issues. Original source: Overview The User Profile Hive Cleanup service helps to ensure user sessions are completely terminated when a user logs off. System processes and applications occasionally...
Systems Management Server 2003 Inventory Tool for Dell Update
Released today , is version three of the Dell Updates tool for SMS. Also released by Dell today was a notification that a small number of drives with the following part numbers: FD457 - Model 8K036L0021451 - 36GB 15K 68 pin CD809 -Model 8K036J002135E - 36GB 15K 80 pin GD086 -Model 8K073L0041452 - 73GB 15K 68 pin FD458 - Model 8K073J004135F - 73GB 15K 80 pin YC951 - Model 8J073L0020851 - 73GB 10K 68...
Time Warner - Still Waiting for FIOS
So in our last episode Time Warner was ordered by the FCC to put the NFL Network back on for subscribers because of the lack of anything more than a 24 hour notice that they were going to turn off their channel. The FCC also made some comments about their reasons for doing so, which I will get into in a minute. On September 15th Time Warner turned off the NFL Network for those of us in the L.A. market...
Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring 2.0
This includes example configurations and SMS reports for you to play with in your free time . If you choose to register you can’t get out of it without actually subscribing to a newsletter. Original source: This accelerator automates the configuration management audits between desired or defined configuration settings and actual configuration settings. Overview Microsoft Systems Management Server...
Turn Off UAC in Vista
Do you spend time with Vista? Have you spent time clicking yes trying to run a program Vista? Do you find user account control annoying? Do you know how to turn this off in Vista? On Tim’s blog, you can find answers to turn off user account control. See below… http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/09/20/763275.aspx There are two ways to disable UAC. The easy solution is through Control...
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