System Center News |
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| System Center Service Manager Beta 1 is now Available! |
| by Rod Trent - 11/25/2008 |
| System Center Service Manager Beta 1 has shipped! |
System Center Configuration Manager |
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| How to check the Command line parameters in AD for ConfigMgr |
| by Christopher Stauffer - 12/1/2008 |
| Have you ever wondered how to check whether or not your command line entries actually made it to AD? |
SMS 2003 |
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| Implementing Collection Security |
| by Mark Mears - 11/18/2008 |
| This article describes how to maintain strict collection security allowing SMS/SCCM admins access to only the machines they are authorized to manage. |
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. |
App-V (formerly SoftGrid) |
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| Time to get generous with ConfigMgr R2 client cache sizes |
| by Troy Wilch - 9/3/2008 |
| One of the nice things about being a consultant is gaining collective knowledge in how organizations run and operate their SMS/ConfigMgr environments. One of the things I run across from time and time again is, folks are stingy when it comes to client cache sizes. |
System Center Operations Manager |
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| SCOM R2 Public Beta |
| by David StClair - 11/20/2008 |
| Exciting news from the SCOM Product Team... |
MOM |
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| MOM 2005 Onepoint DB Perf data tuning |
| by Scott Moss - 10/29/2008 |
| The following should help MOM Admins get a good picture of what is going on in their onepoint database. |
System Center Essentials |
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| Microsoft System Center Essentials - vPro Use Cases Supported |
| by Josh Hilliker - 9/10/2008 |
| Here are the key use cases supported by MS SCE (Microsoft System Center Essentials). |
Scripting |
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| Asset Intelligence Asset Intelligence Reports VBS Script |
| by Don Hite - 12/1/2008 |
| Provided here is a VBS script version of the Asset Intelligence asset intelligence reports report. |
Windows PowerShell |
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| Get information about the installed version of PowerPoint |
| by Rod Trent - 11/25/2008 |
| Use this PowerShell script to retrieve summary information about the installed version of Microsoft PowerPoint. |
Software Management |
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| VBS Script To Send Machines To Excel With A Specified Application Installed |
| by Don Hite - 11/4/2008 |
| This VBS script will list the machine name and last logged on user names to excel that have a specified application installed as listed in the machines add and remove applications applet. |
SMS Installer |
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| Export Active Directory Lists - updated |
| by Dave Ferraro - 6/9/2008 |
| Pretty easy to export a single list from AD using VB and LDAP calls. But what about nested lists and users in those nested lists? |
Patch Management |
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| Patch Management directions for SCCM |
| by Christopher Stauffer - 11/24/2008 |
| I put these directions together for admin here at the commonwealth. |
Security |
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| Implementing Collection Security |
| by Mark Mears - 11/18/2008 |
| This article describes how to maintain strict collection security allowing SMS/SCCM admins access to only the machines they are authorized to manage. |
Windows |
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| Setting BITS limitations on a client computer |
| by Rod Trent - 11/20/2008 |
| Use these instructions to limit the bandwidth by amount and schedule on a Windows computer. |
Windows Mobile |
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| Windows Mobile 6.1 Features |
| by Richard Cridford - 11/25/2008 |
| According to Microsoft`s own description, Windows Mobile is software that puts the "smart in smartphone" and "turns a mobile phone into a device that frees you from your office or home". |
SQL Server |
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| Inventoried Software Titles All Inventoried Software Titles SQL Query |
| by Don Hite - 11/25/2008 |
| Provided here is a SQL version of the Asset Intelligence inventoried software titles all inventoried software titles report. |
Exchange Server |
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| Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Administrative's Companion (2nd Edition) |
| by Marcin Policht - 10/14/2008 |
| With the third release of Microsoft Exchange Server product line since its integration with Active Directory, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep track of intricacies of each edition. |
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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| Remote Desktop Chooser HTA Script |
| by Don Hite - 11/25/2008 |
| Provided here is an HTA script that will allow you to start a Remote Desktop connection to a specified machine by selecting or choosing the machine name from a list of radio boxes. |
Sharepoint |
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| SharePoint 2007 - Workflows - URL Woes |
| by Mike Lucero - 7/24/2008 |
| I'm sure that there are people out there who have had this problem as I've seen a LOT of posts asking about the problems with this particular workflow lookup item, but no complete solutions which take into considerations one of the most common problems in SharePoint naming: spaces. |
Active Directory and Group Policy |
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| How to check the Command line parameters in AD for ConfigMgr |
| by Christopher Stauffer - 12/1/2008 |
| Have you ever wondered how to check whether or not your command line entries actually made it to AD? |
Microsoft Office |
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| Get information about the installed version of PowerPoint |
| by Rod Trent - 11/25/2008 |
| Use this PowerShell script to retrieve summary information about the installed version of Microsoft PowerPoint. |
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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| Which Smartphones does the Redfly support? |
| by Rod Trent - 10/27/2008 |
| REDFLY is compatible with selected Windows Mobile Smartphones, but Celio may support smartphones based on the business case and/or the opportunity size. |
Networking |
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| Monitoring Network Switches and Interfaces |
| by edan yona - 10/21/2008 |
| As many of you have seen Operations Manager has the infrastructure to support monitoring of network devices, however that infrastructure is limited in it's discovery mechanism, it will only identify a single class (network device) and no sub components. |
Support Management |
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| Free IntelliAdmin RDP Remote Desktop Enabler Download |
| by Don Hite - 11/24/2008 |
| This free Remote Desktop Enabler utility from IntelliAdmin allows to you enable the remote desktop feature of Windows XP and later machines remotely. |
Miscellaneous |
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| Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope Download |
| by Don Hite - 11/5/2008 |
| If you are “into” Astronomical facts like the ones below or just want to see what it looks like in space as if you were aboard Captain Kirk’s Starship Enterprise the WorldWide Telescope download link below is for you. |
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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| Microsoft Application Virtualization (MAV) / SoftGrid and Symantec Altiris SVS clients on the same machine BSOD |
| by Shaun Cassells - 8/26/2008 |
| It looks like the filter driver in Softgrid cannot deal with SVS on Windows XP SP2. |
Virtualization |
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| Protect against Virtual Machines with Network Access Protection |
| by Richard Dixon - 12/1/2008 |
| It's up on us again, MMS 2009 and I'm going to try and be there to talk about how you can enable and configure your environment to protect your network with Network Access Protection against virtual machines on virtual private networks that have connectivity to the physical network. |
Microsoft Deployment |
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| Custom OSD Scripting - Back End Script |
| by Neil Peterson - 12/1/2008 |
| Here is the back end script that does all of the work. |
System Center Mobile Device Manager |
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| SCMDM 2008 SP1 Documentation Now Available |
| by Marco Nielsen - 11/20/2008 |
| Just noticed these being updated and posted on TechNet tonight and replacing all the RTM documentation previously posted. |
Network Access Protection |
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| Protect against Virtual Machines with Network Access Protection |
| by Richard Dixon - 12/1/2008 |
| It's up on us again, MMS 2009 and I'm going to try and be there to talk about how you can enable and configure your environment to protect your network with Network Access Protection against virtual machines on virtual private networks that have connectivity to the physical network. |
