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MMS 2008 - Sunday - Registration Swag

Finally got here after quite a long drive. We are staying at the Venetian and it is quite nice. There are quite a few people here already. When you register you get a backpack this year. It is blue, dark blue, but it is an OGIO backpack and it has a side zipper for your laptop as well as small side pockets, a large front pocket and a small front pocket. It actually looks like it will hold up quite well, I have heard this brand of backpack is a quality backpack but can't attest to it myself. I...  ... Read the full post or  the 2 comments. Filed under: Microsoft, myITforum, MMS 2008, ConfigMgr, 1E

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 presenting his session on ConfigMgr Client Health. So yes , I will be there from Sunday to Friday afternoon...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, et. all, myITforum, Blog, OSD, MMS 2008, NightWatchman, OSD Plus Pack, ConfigMgr, SCCM, 1E

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 ten of 2007 when it comes to Systems Management. 10. Thursday, October 23rd, System Center Partner...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, et. all, System Center, Vista, News, TechNet, Microsoft, myITforum, SCOM, MMS 2007, Blog, OSD, SoftGrid, ConfigMgr

Microsoft ConfigMgr Community Forums Now Live

In another move to get away from the newsgroups Microsoft has opened up the System Center Configuration Manager Community that includes a web based forums section . On the front page you will find a link to the subforums of ConfigMgr, Microsoft employee blogs, MVP blogs (not mine however?), and links to related communities like myITforum.com . Regards, Anthony Anthony Clendenen | Solutions Engineer | 1E Inc. http://configmgr.com © 2007 Anthony Clendenen Technorati Tags: ConfigMgr , SCCM , CM , Config...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: System Center, News, TechNet, Microsoft, myITforum, SCCM 2007, Blog

Build Your Own SMS Knowledge Base

The amount of storage you can get with a free online email account now is probably 10x's larger than your first hard drive. I have used Gmail since it was by invite only and it still works great the SPAM filtering works very well and I like the way the conversations only take up a single line, indicating how many in the thread and if it is unread. One thing I would like to see is folders, Stars are okay, and labels help, but folders would be great. The mail search is the key benefit I get from...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: Tools, et. all, myITforum, Hack

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 this or think you might want to do this here is a summary of the options available to accomplish...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, Security, KB Articles, myITforum

MMS 2007 - Day 1 Recap

During day one it is mostly Hands on Lab (HOL), and the Expo floor opens. I was at the myITforum.com booth when the Expo opened and I have to say it was a mad dash to get the buttons for the party. We actually had conference staff that came over and were very concerned about the crowd and how our neighbors might be impacted. Rod talked to them and smoothed it all out. In less than 12 minutes we gave away all the buttons, after Microsoft saw the draw to the booth they decided to give us their 60 buttons...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: Microsoft, myITforum, MMS 2007

MMS 2007 myITforum.com Party!

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New Version of SCCM 2007 Beta 2 Availabe on Connect

On Connect there appears to be a new version of SCCM 2007 it is labeled build 5578, and release date of yesterday. I haven't used SCCM in seveal months and don't recall the build number and haven't seen this confirmed anywhere yet. Main page here , and main Connect page here . As Rod points out , as we closer to MMS you can expect a flood of new SCCM and SCOM information and downloads. Regards, Anthony Anthony Clendenen | Senior Technical Consultant | Microsoft Practices | Dimension Data “ Dimension...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: Beta, News, TechNet, myITforum, SCCM 2007

How I Made The myITforum.com Live Toolbar Button

If you have not looked at the Windows Live Toolbar I would suggest it for a couple reasons, first if you are still using IE6 it gives you tabbed browsing. The second is you can search the myITforum site directly from the search field in the toolbar with this button! To create the toolbar buttons you can go one of two routes. The first is to design it through their website, this is pretty straight forward, you can select your links and put them, your search link, RSS, tags, button icon, etc. It will...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: Tools, et. all, myITforum

Windows PowerShell 1.0 Available for Vista

As posted on the myITforum SMS mailing list ...Thanks to Greg and Rod for the heads up! Download Overview Windows PowerShell includes: One hundred and twenty-nine command-line tools (called "cmdlets") for performing common system administration tasks, such as managing services, processes, event logs, certificates, the registry, and using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). Command-line tools are easy to learn and easy to use with standard naming conventions and common parameters, and simple...  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: Vista, myITforum, PowerShell

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 next meeting of the AZSMUG is under discussion contingent on Harold Wong's (our sponsor) availability...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, Microsoft, myITforum, AZSMUG

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  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, News, myITforum

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 and best of all they have chosen to provide them free of charge with documentation. New tools include...  ... Read the full post or  the 2 comments. Filed under: SMS Tools, myITforum

WOW! Google Has Me Ranked #1

Someone sent me an email telling my when they did a search for Intel Duo + WMI on Google my blog came up as number one and number two in the results! How cool is that? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-33%2CGGLJ%3Aen&q=intel+duo+%2Bwmi Regards. '> Listen to this article  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: et. all, myITforum

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 .ccr Client Config Request .cfg Cfg file that describes params to use for the client component ...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, Tools, myITforum

More on eEye, Rod, ITMU, and WSUScan.cab

A long time ago I learned some very important rules of email, which also apply to blogging. Never, ever, ever, think that anything you write will not be read by your manager, director, head of HR, CIO, President, CEO, Board, wife, friends, customers, future customers, future hiring manager (Hello again!), children, those who don’t care for you, peers, NSA - you get the idea. Also never assume that what you write or say will be perceived as you think it should, or repeated in context. And finally...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: et. all, KB Articles, News, Microsoft, myITforum

Testers Needed - SMS 2003 Troubleshooting Application

I am looking for some help testing an application I wrote that combines all the Microsoft status messages, Inbox definitions, and log definitions into a single resource instead of looking at several spreadsheets. This release is the first version and I have plans to add more to it but I wanted to get this portion out for testing and feedback to help guide the future development. The purpose of this tool is to try and make supporting SMS easier so feedback on what works and what you would like to...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SMS Tools, myITforum

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  ... Read the full post or  the first comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, News, myITforum

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 Menu General Messages Server Messages Client Messages Provider Messages Inboxes Defined...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: SMS 2003, SMS Tools, myITforum

MMS 2006 - Odds and Ends

Best place for breakfast, real breakfast. Brians’ Eatery & Drinkery 828 Sixth Ave. San Diego, Ca 92101 Breakfast Lunch Dinner and Late Night The staff is very friendly and helpful. It is several blocks up from the Convention Center but it was right around the corner from my hotel. The food was great, no waiting in line for a table, and it is kind of out of the way. At night they have live entertainment. Best place for lunch. Cine Café 412 K St San Diego, Ca This is a sandwich shop that is located...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: et. all, Rants, MMS 2006, myITforum

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