Put on by Kelverion (the original developers of Orchestrator), this webinar looks hugely valuable to attend. Mark Ball, Director of Technical Services, will demonstrate how to develop Orchestrator runbooks that are powerful yet simple, reusable, re-runnable, easy to maintain, and easy to update; all of this in one-third the normal development time. Title: Best Practices for Building Orchestrator Runbooks –...
Select TechEd 2013 Sessions Available for Live Streaming
In addition to streaming Brad Anderson’s keynote from TechEd 2013, there are a few, select sessions that will also be made available for live streaming throughout the event week. The following table lists the sessions that you can watch live, sitting at your desk at work. They will all be streamed from the Channel 9 site: http://channel9.msdn.com/ Timeslot Title...
App Store Essentials: Connecting Your App Store to IT Service Management Systems
By Laura Noonan There’s no question that the enterprise app store is a highly effective mechanism for making business applications available to your user community. But successful app stores can’t operate in a vacuum. They must interact with other IT systems to ensure efficient management of the overall IT environment. One essential area for interaction and integration is IT service management (ITSM), which encompasses such disciplines as incident, problem and change management. ITSM solutions including BMC Remedy, ServiceNow and Microsoft Service Manager support the service desk by tracking and managing incidents that might interfere with critical business systems. In many…
SCORCH Exchange IP Get Mailbox Activity Limit of 1000
I was recently working with a customer using the Exchange Integration Pack with Orchestrator to do some user off-boarding automation and ran into a perceived problem with the Get Mailbox Activity. When initially creating the Get Mailbox properties, I only selected a SAM Account Filter to retrieve the mailbox that I wanted to disable. When using this filter, I wasn’t...
Creating an Endpoint Protection Alert using System Center Orchestrator
CM 2012 does not provide a built-in method for alerting administrators when a remediation action fails for Endpoint Protection. When remediation fails, the device is still considered infected. Even more of a concern is if the infection changes Endpoint Protection settings. This is the first of a two part series that will go over how to create an alert so that administrators...
Email Lists
myITforum Email Lists Lists that are currently available for Subscription: Active Directory and Group Policy Antivirus App-V Christ Followers Citrix ConfigMgr 2012/2007/SMS Data Protection Manager Forefront Endpoint Protection Intel vPro Technology Jobs Macintosh/Apple Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Operating System Deployment Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) ** Microsoft Exchange – Old, popular Sunbelt Software email discussion list MMS ** NT System...
Kelverion continue to Enhance and Extend Orchestrator
Annoucing new Integration Packs and updates to existing Kelverion Integration Packs for Orchestrator By Greg Charman As part of our ongoing activities around Orchestrator, Kelverion are pleased to announce some new products and product updates for System Center 2012 Orchestrator and Orchestrator SP1. First a thank you to all who attended the Microsoft Management Summit 2013 in Las Vegas and dropped by...
How to run Powershell scripts with a Service Account to access ConfigMgr 2012 SP1
When using a service account to run for instance my “cleaning ConfigMgr” Powershell script you may run in to an error. When trying to access the Windows PowerShell drive that is mapped to your Primary Site you will receive the following error: “set-location : Cannot find drive. A drive with the name <primary site> does not exist.” (see figure on the left)...
Email alias for the “other” System Center products docs
For years, those that work with ConfigMgr have known about the SMSDocs@microsoft.com email alias as a vehicle to make suggestions, ask questions, and report bugs about the ConfigMgr documentation. But, did you know there’s another email alias for the other System Center apps (i.e., Service Manager, Operations Manager, Orchestrator, etc.)? If you have suggestion, questions, or want to report bugs...
Creating an Endpoint Protection Alert using System Center Orchestrator
CM 2012 does not provide a built-in method for alerting administrators when a remediation action fails for Endpoint Protection. When remediation fails, the device is still considered infected. Even more of a concern is if the infection changes Endpoint Protection settings. This is the first of a two part series that will go over how to create an alert so that administrators...
Mastering System Center 2012 eLearning series coming in May 2013
John Savill, of WindowsITPro fame, is holding a two-day event where he goes over the various products in the System Center 2012 suite. If you’ve followed much of John’s System Center coverage at all, you know he’s well-versed in the suite and is set to deliver a great overview of the various components. On Day 1 he covers licensing –...
The official list of MMS 2013 BOFs, now available at a Schedule Builder near you
A lot of you have asked when the approved BOFs will be included in the Schedule Builder, and understandably you shouldn’t have to wait due to how the process works – particularly when many of you are trying to finish off planning your week at MMS 2013. UPDATE: About 15 minutes after we posted the following list, the Schedule builder...
Gary Blok: Does it matter which option you do first? Say I want to setup the MBA...
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roncrumbaker: Great link! Lots of information out there...and yes, there are many v...
Geoff Buckingham: Been trying to get some work done on mine for a long time ... without ...
Clint Huffman: Page file sizing depends on the crash dump setting of the system as we...