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Attending MMS 2008? Yes I Am - We Are
I have gotten a ton of emails asking me if I am going to be at MMS this year and when and up until now I have held off because I was waiting for some things to finalize. But today 1E sent out an email to customer letting them know the booth number, and when Sumir, one of the founders of 1E, was going to speak. Which is right after the State of the Union, and also at the same time as Paul Thomsen is...
Top Ten Events in Systems Management During 2007
First of all, Happy New Year, and may everyone find that in 2008 that your glass is more than half full, you and your loved ones are all very healthy and overly happy, that your careers are very prosperous, and that you gain all that you desire and more. As we welcome another year and reflect on the year ending it is always nice to note what was the highlights of the year. So below is my personal top...
Preventing The SMS Client From Installing
Yesterday Kevin C. asked a question on the SMS email list that I get several times a year. "I have a group of servers that a vendor has banned the SMS client from being installed on. We are auto-pushing the client to all servers that are discovered. I do not have the ability to change the OU the servers are in to prevent AD discovery. " There were several responses and if you have thought about doing...
AZ SMS User Group Meeting Notes - October
Arizona System Management User Group (AZSMUG) Meeting Minutes Meeting Date: October 26, 2006 Next meeting: TBD Location: Microsoft Corporation 2929 North Central Avenue Suite 1400 Phoenix, AZ 85012 Announcements The Microsoft's Windows Vista Launch Blitz will take place in Phoenix, Arizona January the 17 th . If you plan to attend make sure you register for this event when it becomes available. The...
Buy This Book! SMS 2003 Administrator's Reference: Systems Management Server 2003
Ron’s book is out now. You can get it from Amazon …Run, don’t walk. http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rcrumbaker/archive/2006/11/03/SMS-2003-Administrator_2700_s-Reference_3A00_-Systems-Management-Server-2003-.aspx '> Listen to this article
myITforum.com : File Extensions used by SMS
In doing some research tonight on question 13 and collection eval inbox I came across this and it is a great resource. Thanks Ed! Original source: File Extensions used by SMS By: Ed Aldrich Posted On: 8/5/2005 File Extensions used by SMS (from BORK Appendix A; Table A.1) EXT Description .adc Adds a collection to Coll Evaluator .box Folders that hold files until an SMS component moves or processes them...
New SMS 2003 Book
Ron and Rod did I miss the post? There seems to be a new SMS book on Amazon, you can only preorder it today but it is up there... Professional SMS 2003 : Systems Management Server (Paperback) by Ron Crumbaker
SMS Troubleshooting Application
I am getting close to completing the message ID searching and Inbox definition part of my SMS troublshooting application. The screens below show the main menu, along with each window for the different types of status messages, General, Server, Client, Provider, and then the Inboxes. If you would like to help test it or have any feedback, suggestions, criticisizms, please let me know. Regards. Main...
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...