Steve Thompson at myITforum.com - All Comments

re: MVP 2010 Global Summit

rporter — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:03:16 GMT

Good writeup, thanks.

re: myITforum.com: Public submission for job openings

sthompson — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:28:46 GMT

Landed only one job at a time Reed -- :-) Best of luck in your quest and anyone else that is looking. Keep the faith.

re: myITforum.com: Public submission for job openings

rporter — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:01:45 GMT

Greedy Bastage! Some people don't have one job, let alone two! ;)

The resume I have posted on my MyITForum blog generates more calls than all the job boards combined. By far.

re: How to add SMS 2003/ConfigMgr 2007 computers in a collection to an Active Directory security group

sthompson — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:14:13 GMT

See the follow-up article here:

www.myitforum.com/.../Articles.aspx

re: How to add SMS 2003/ConfigMgr 2007 computers in a collection to an Active Directory security group

jsearles — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:05:59 GMT

Well, isn't that peachy. When you run the entire command from the command line, it works, but if you just run NET GROUP it produces errors. I just spent about 6 hours changing the code, so that it uses powershell instead of the NET command. Oh well!

re: How to add SMS 2003/ConfigMgr 2007 computers in a collection to an Active Directory security group

sthompson — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:09:48 GMT

You don't have to run the NET GROUP command on a domain controller. However, the account that invokes it needs to be able to add objects to Active Directory. By default an account with administrative rights would work. However, you should be able to find the minimum permissions needed to achieve this by setting specific rights to AD here: technet.microsoft.com/.../cc728117(WS.10).aspx

re: How to add SMS 2003/ConfigMgr 2007 computers in a collection to an Active Directory security group

jsearles — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:49:17 GMT

It should be noted that this worked in my test environment because my TEST Lab SQL server is also my domain controller(it's a test vm cut me slack). The NET GROUP command must be ran from a domain controller. The concept is there, and I'll have another one that works on NON domain controllers soon.

re: How to add SMS 2003/ConfigMgr 2007 computers in a collection to an Active Directory security group

jsearles — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:01:20 GMT

Since I'm an SMS guy, rather than create a stored procedure in SQL, I just created a custom SQL Command under site maintenance, and pasted the code in there. And since I'm in advanced security mode, I believe it will run the command under the site servers computer account. :-) Thanks for the post!

re: MVP Award received for ConfigMgr 2007

hwilson542 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:53:57 GMT

Major Congrats Steve

re: How to find computer NIC's with Speed/Duplex not set to 'Auto'?

andyshah1 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:47:14 GMT

I am looking to set the speed to AUTO on remote computers from 100/full. Can you please point me to the script? Thanks in advance.

re: MMS 2009 - Speaker selection

hwilson542 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:54:37 GMT

Coolness ! See ya in Vegas too!

re: MMS 2009 - Speaker selection

rodtrent — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:04:03 GMT

Congrats! See you there!

re: Microsoft MVP 2009 Award - Configuration Manager

smoss — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:47:39 GMT

Congrats!

re: Microsoft MVP 2009 Award - Configuration Manager

sthompson — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:24:56 GMT

Thank you all, I am privileged to be part of this community!

re: Microsoft MVP 2009 Award - Configuration Manager

hwilson542 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:31:41 GMT

And still one of the LONGEST award streaks known to this community!

Way to go Steve