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Troubleshooting WMI With WMIDiag

If you have never worked with Microsoft PSS, PFE, QFE, MCS, RRE, or any other arm of their professional support staff you may not be aware of the tools that these army of men and women come equipped with to resolve issues. These are often home grown, field developed, custom tools that these same folks have written to help customers and the support staff at Microsoft quickly resolve issues and the WMIDiag tool is a prime example of this. Often these tools are used only by the Microsoft staff and are...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, SMS Tools, Scripting, Tools, System Center, TechNet, Microsoft, WMI, VB Script

MMS 2006 - Day 5 - Web Remote Tools

The final session I went to this week was Ron’s Web Remote Tools presentation. the day before Ron was telling me that there have been a few people that have taken his code and used it without giving him credit, and some even pawn it off as their own! People are fascinating to me. Anyways Ron discussed how the next version will have a batch file to make the changes needed to adapt it to your own environment instead of editing the pages directly. I did not mind having to do this because I forced me...  ... Read the full post or  the 2 comments. Filed under: SMS 2003, Scripting, Tools, MMS 2006, myITforum

Day 2 - MMS 2006 - Keynote - Announcements

Very briefly before I have to run off to the SMS State of the Union… Some major announcements at the Keynote: SMS is being renamed to System Center Configuration Management MOM will also adopt the new “System Center” branding System Center Service Desk was announced WS-Management ratification by DMTF Monad is now known as PowerShell More info on Service Desk: ERP solution for IT, ITIL -based workflow, SDM-based CMDB, Process and Knowledge embedded Displays alert with MOM monitored...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, Scripting, MOM, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006

Day 1 - MMS 2006 - Part 2

This was a long day, I managed to get into four sessions and spend some time at SMS Expert booth talking with Dave. If you have not seen the new version of ESD make sure you stop by and check it out, they have done some great things with it. I was not able to make it to the get together at the Marriott, I was tired and had not eaten since lunch so I got back to my room about 9:30, ate, and went to sleep. Hopefully I will be meet up with some of the myITforum people today. My wife and daughter arrive...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, Scripting, Group Policy, Vista, Longhorn, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006

VBScript to Remove Old Versions of IXOS and SAP and Install New Versions

This is a script I put together to remove old versions IXOS and SAP and install the new versions. This has not been fully tested and I have altered it since I did my testing so use this AT YOUR OWN RISK . Make sure you modify it and test it throughly before using it. I cannot be held liable for any results, this is provided as is and only as a guide to help make a similar script for your own purposes. Make sure you watch the word wrap done during the posting or better, just get the attachment and...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, SMS Tools, Scripting, Packaging