System Center News |
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| System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 has gone RTM! |
| by Rod Trent - 2/20/2008 |
| System Center Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM) 2008 has gone RTM! |
System Center Configuration Manager |
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| SCCM PXE Service Point & WDS |
| by Jason Scheffelmaer - 5/8/2008 |
| I don't know if anyone else has ran into issues setting up the PSP on your SCCM box or WDS box but I can tell you it is very touchy to failure if not done right. |
SMS 2003 |
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| VBS Script To Display Distribution Points Agent Service Information |
| by Don Hite - 5/8/2008 |
| This VBS script will take a list of Distribution Point (DP) servers from a text file called DPServers.Txt and will write the SMS Agent Host status for each server to an excel spreadsheet. |
SMS 2.x |
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| SMS Exclusions By MAC Address |
| by Don Hite - 8/16/2007 |
| In SMS 2003 as well as SMS 2.0 you can exclude resources from being discovered by adding the machine names... |
SMS 1.2 |
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| Microsoft Systems Management Server Lifecycle Support Calendar |
| by Don Hite - 7/26/2007 |
| Here you will find information about the lifecycle support for Microsoft Systems Management Server. |
Softgrid |
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| Updated: MSI Utility for Microsoft Application Virtualization |
| by Rod Trent - 2/22/2008 |
| The MSI Utility for Microsoft Application Virtualization is a new tool designed to extend virtual application deployment in certain key scenarios. |
System Center Operations Manager |
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| SQL Query To Retrieve Your OpsMgr 2007 Management And Admin Group Names |
| by Don Hite - 5/6/2008 |
| This SQL Query will retrieve your OpsMgr 2007 Management group and Admin group names for your reference. |
MOM |
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| MOM 2005 Query: Enumerate Cluster Computers that belong to a computer group |
| by Scott Moss - 4/16/2008 |
| Use this query to enumerate cluster computers that belong to a computer group. |
System Center Essentials |
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| Now you can Monitor SNMPv1 devices with Essentials 2007 SP1 |
| by Gwen Zierdt - 5/5/2008 |
| A real improvement of Essentials 2007 SP1 is to the Computer and Device Management Wizard with the ability to now support discovering SNMPv1 devices. |
Scripting |
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| VBS Script To Display Distribution Points Agent Service Information |
| by Don Hite - 5/8/2008 |
| This VBS script will take a list of Distribution Point (DP) servers from a text file called DPServers.Txt and will write the SMS Agent Host status for each server to an excel spreadsheet. |
Windows PowerShell |
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| SCCM and PowerShell - for starters |
| by Greg Ramsey - 5/8/2008 |
| This is the start of several examples for leveraging PowerShell with Systems Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr). We'll start slow, and work our way up to more complex tasks. |
Software Management |
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| The Admin Studio Configuration Manager Edition Download |
| by Don Hite - 4/16/2008 |
| The updated Admin Studio Configuration Manager Edition is now available from Macrovision in collaboration with the Microsoft System Center team for use with ConfigMgr 2007... |
SMS Installer |
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| Storing a password in a SMSInstaller |
| by François Racine - 1/22/2008 |
| Storing a password in an SMS Installer exe and make the exe remaind the password. |
Patch Management |
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| KB948496 Ate My Network |
| by Paul Strain - 4/17/2008 |
| We started having weird issues today with users in a particular site not being able to log in, not mapping drives, etc. |
Security |
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| Disabling The Windows XP Firewall On A Local Machine |
| by Don Hite - 4/15/2008 |
| This By Request VBS script will allow you to disable the Windows XP firewall on a local machine via a Group Policy or thorough a logon script. |
Windows |
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| How To Enable Remote Desktop Access To A Windows Vista Machine |
| by Don Hite - 5/7/2008 |
| Here you will find the steps necessary to enable Remote Desktop on a Windows Vista machine. |
Windows Mobile |
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| Worldmate for Pocket PC now free |
| by John Gormly - 4/16/2008 |
| I've used to use Worldmate all the time until they jacked their rates up. Their Pro version is still $75, but there is now a free version available. |
SQL Server |
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| SQL Query Add And Removed Programs For A Collection |
| by Don Hite - 5/6/2008 |
| This SQL Query will allow you to retrieve Add And Removed Programs for all resources in a specified collection. |
Exchange Server |
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| PowerShell script to list the top 10 mailbox user on your exchange 2007 server |
| by Ying Li - 5/7/2008 |
| Here is a PowerShell script to identify the top 10 users who have the biggest mailbox on your Exchange 2007 server and output the result to Internet Explorer. |
Small Business Server |
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| Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer |
| by Rod Trent - 10/17/2007 |
| The Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer examines a server that is running Windows Small Business Server 2003 (Windows SBS) and presents a list of information and errors that administrators should review. |
Web Technologies |
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| HTA Script To Calculate How Many Hands High A Horse Is |
| by Don Hite - 5/7/2008 |
| Provided here is another equine HTA script that I wrote just for fun to allow you to calculate your horse’s height in hands. To use the script enter your horse’s height in inches from the ground to the top of their withers in the input box. |
Sharepoint |
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| Why I can't open my sharepoint site on sharepoint server - Local Access Permission in DCOM |
| by Ying Li - 5/5/2008 |
| Recently I am working on to build a SharePoint staging environment for my company. This is a brand new staging environment. So I created the AD accounts and did all those setspn, account delegation stuff. Created the sites/site collections following our build docs. |
Active Directory and Group Policy |
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| PowerShell to identify the GlobalCatalog Servers and more in your AD environment - Part II |
| by Ying Li - 4/11/2008 |
| Lets continue to play with AD using PowerShell. |
Microsoft Office |
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| Access 2007 Runtime Now Available |
| by John Gormly - 4/17/2008 |
| If no end-user customization is required (including report modifications), you can choose to distribute Access 2007 solutions so that they run without requiring a full installation of Access 2007. |
Macintosh-Apple |
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| PowerPoint 2008 for Mac |
| by Joseph Hinkle - 2/20/2008 |
| I just finished up sanitizing a presentation about basic SMS software distribution troubleshooting that I created for our help desk at work. |
Hardware and Gadgets |
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| KB948496 Ate My Network |
| by Paul Strain - 4/17/2008 |
| We started having weird issues today with users in a particular site not being able to log in, not mapping drives, etc. |
Networking |
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| Link Layer Topology Discovery Responder Download For Windows XP Service Pack 2 |
| by Don Hite - 4/7/2008 |
| Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) is a licensed data link layer 2 protocol designed for network discovery and was developed by Microsoft as part of their Windows Rally set of technologies and is included in Windows Vista as part of its Network Map feature for wired or wireless networks... |
Support Management |
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| ITIL V3: A Set of Best Practices for Managing Your IT Services |
| by Alan Koch - 5/6/2008 |
| Looking for ways to enhance customer service and cut waiting times for responses, ITIL V3 has emerged as a vital methodology for businesses looking to revamp their service processes. |
Miscellaneous |
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| Paint.Net 3.3 |
| by John Gormly - 4/16/2008 |
| Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. |
SMS Alliance |
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| Grant Thornton LLP chooses Sybase iAnywhere to manage 3000 mobile devices |
| by Rod Trent - 4/30/2007 |
| US Member Firm of Global Accounting, Tax and Business Advisory Organization Leverages Information Anywhere Suite to Streamline Desktop and Mobile Laptop Management. |
Altiris |
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| Getting the Most of Altiris Notification Server Part II - Randomize Weekly and Monthly Inventories |
| by Reed Porter - 9/4/2007 |
| In Part I we randomized daily inventories so they ran randomly within a 4 hour window. In Part II we'll take that a step further by randomizing which day Weekly or Monthly inventories run and give them a 4 hour window. |
Virtualization |
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| Citrix Raises the Bar on Integrated Server Virtualization with HP |
| by Dan Taylor - 4/7/2008 |
| Did you catch the announcement from Citrix and HP this week? |
Microsoft Deployment |
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| SCCM PXE Service Point & WDS |
| by Jason Scheffelmaer - 5/8/2008 |
| I don't know if anyone else has ran into issues setting up the PSP on your SCCM box or WDS box but I can tell you it is very touchy to failure if not done right. |
