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Monday, January 05, 2009 4:24 AM
[ConfigMgr][OpsMgr] Coming Soon: Specialized OpsMgr 2007 and ConfigMgr 2007 blogs
In case you missed J.C. Hornbeck’s blog post, effective today the SMS&MOM Team’s Manageability Team Blog is going to be split into dedicated tracks for ConfigMgr/ SMS and OpsMgr/ MOM/ SCE (links below). Don’t panic though, you’ve got a few weeks to...
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Friday, December 12, 2008 1:43 PM
[MMS] Call for MMS 2009 Topics is Live
http://www.mms-2009.com/CFT/ This site may be used by Customers, Consultants and Microsoft Staff to submit topic proposals for the MMS 2009 event in Las Vegas, April 27th – May 1st 2009. To use the tool you will require an access code: Community...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 5:03 AM
[MMS] Registration is now Live for MMS 2009…!!
TODAY is the the day – Registration for MMS 2009 is now officially OPEN: http://mms-2009.com/public/registrationoverview.aspx Not sure if I’m going to make it next year (like most folks depends on my employment status and funding).
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:52 PM
[MOM 2005] New and updated Knowledge Base articles for 11-23 through 11-29
Links and titles are below: ======== MOM Ops Mgr Serv Ent Ed 2005 EN 924043 - Active Directory Management Pack reports contain incorrect data after you install Multiple Management Group Rollup Solution...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:01 PM
[OpsMgr/ MOM] New and updated Knowledge Base articles for 11-16 through 11-22
Links and titles are below: ======== MOM Operations Mgr Base 2000 EN 300304 - Microsoft Operations Manager Reporting Logs Event 1025 With Unregistered Event Source Published - Updated MOM Operations Mgr...
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Friday, November 07, 2008 12:32 PM
[MMS] Mark your diaries for the 9th December 2008…
The MMS 2009 site is now live with registrations officially opening on the 9th December. However, don’t think there’s no reason to drop by the site now as YOU can win one of 4 Portable Media Players by...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 6:46 AM
[MS KBs] New KB Articles At Microsoft 12 Aug 2008 - Weekly Summary
Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 953140 Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Service Pack 1 support for Windows Server 2008 SQL Server 2005 955965 Description of SQL Server Compact 3.5 Service Pack 1 955966...
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Friday, May 09, 2008 9:10 AM
Last chance to register...
TODAY is the final day to register for the next WMUG Meeting to be held next Tuesday 13th May at Microsoft's Thames Valley Park. All are welcome and we'd love to see you there. Full details and...
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Friday, April 25, 2008 2:28 PM
Microsoft UK looking for ConfigMgr/ SMS or OpsMgr/ MOM Support Engineers
Here's an interesting opening for Microsoft UK based at Thames Valley Park in Reading (a HUGE campus location that's in a beautiful location). More details: http://members.microsoft.com/careers...
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Friday, February 29, 2008 9:34 AM
New KB Articles At Microsoft 28 Feb 2008 - Weekly Summary
Data Access Components 2.8 948763 Support has ended for MDAC 2.7 Service Pack 1 and MDAC 2.8 Internet Explorer 6.0 947513 Internet Explorer use HTTP/1.0 GET requests instead of HTTP/1.1 GET requests to...
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Monday, February 11, 2008 9:27 AM
New KB Articles At Microsoft 10 Feb 2008 - Weekly Summary
Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 556056 HOWTO: Create System Center Operations Manager 2007 task to execute a VB script SQL Server 2005 947463 FIX: A stored procedure cannot finish its execution in SQL Server...
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Monday, January 21, 2008 2:26 PM
New KB Articles At Microsoft 20 Jan 2008 - Weekly Summary
Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 946432 Registry entry names that contain a backslash character (\) are considered as part of the registry path when you use Registry probe SQL Server 2000 944837 Description...
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Monday, December 24, 2007 8:10 AM
New KB Articles At Microsoft 23 Dec 2007 - Weekly Summary
Internet Explorer 6.0 946627 Internet Explorer 6 crashes after you install security update 942615 on a computer that is running Windows XP Service Pack 2 Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 556046 How to monitor...
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Friday, November 16, 2007 8:43 AM
Andy Dominey joins the FAQShop Team
For as long as I can remember I've been trying to recruit a SCOM/ MOM specialist to help run these sections of the site as I know the information has been sadly lacking for these sections. Well I'm...
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Monday, September 17, 2007 3:05 PM
New KB Articles At Microsoft 16 Sep 2007 - Weekly Summary
Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 933616 When many alerts occur at the same time, Notification Workflow Solution Accelerator version 2.1 does not send notifications in MOM 2005
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Monday, September 03, 2007 2:59 PM
New KB Articles At Microsoft 2 Sep 2007 - Weekly Summary
Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 936161 The MOM service may crash in discovery in MOM 2005 SQL Server 2005 940943 FIX: The performance of a query that performs an insert operation or an update operation is...
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Monday, August 06, 2007 2:44 PM
New KB Articles At Microsoft 5 Aug 2007 - Weekly Summary
Internet Explorer 6.0 935943 You cannot use Internet Explorer to connect to a Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Administration Web site and then connect to another Virtual Server Operations Manager (MOM) 2005...
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Friday, June 29, 2007 2:35 PM
New KB Articles At Microsoft 28 Jun 2007 - Weekly Summary
Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 938215 Error message when you run any Windows Key Management Service Management Pack report in MOM 2005: "SELECT permission denied on object" SQL Server 2000 938709...
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Monday, June 25, 2007 5:13 PM
Let's start by getting the name right...
There seems to be a lot of confusion over the proper acronyms/ abbreviations for Microsoft's System Center products (for example "SCCM" for "System Center Configuration Manager"...
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 4:35 PM
New FAQShop Articles 14th June 07...
Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 "Connect Failed" on Machines running a remote SMS Admin Console after Windows 2003 SP1 Upgrade [14/06/07] Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS] You will see...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:25 PM
New FAQShop Articles 7th June 07...
A couple of updates today: Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Three more great free utilities added to the SMS 2003 Tools and Utilities page [07/06/07] Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS] Checkout...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007 4:11 PM
New FAQShop Articles 5th June 07...
Two new articles today: Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 A couple of extra useful free utilities added to the SMS 2003 Tools and Utilities page [05/06/07] Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS] Our...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 4:53 PM
Do you run a User Group?
We’re well into organising our next meeting for the Windows Management User Group (WMUG), here in the UK. One idea that came to mind is I thought it would be really cool if all of the various User...
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Friday, May 11, 2007 4:17 PM
David Scambler joins the WMUG line-up...
I’m delighted to announce that David Scambler has agreed to join the WMUG team. Welcome aboard David you’re a great asset to the team. If any other UK-based users of Microsoft Systems Management...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:02 PM
New FAQShop Articles...
SMS 2003 Multi-Threaded Software Inventory Processing in SMS 2003 SP2 Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS] Software Inventory processing in SMS 2003 SP2 has now been changed to be multi-threaded. What...
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Monday, April 30, 2007 3:09 PM
Don't forget...
Tomorrow is the inaugural meeting of the UK Windows Management User Group, right after the UK MMS event finishes. I know that the UK MMS event is full but I'd love to see you at our user group meeting...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:23 PM
UK Windows Management User Group Initial Meeting – Spread the word..!!
For sometime now a few of us have been looking to start a Systems Management User Group in the UK. A few people “out there” have contacted me expressing an interest in such a group. Well now is your chance...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 12:03 PM
MMS Day Two - Tuesday 27th March
This is the first "proper" day of MMS. The day started with the keynote in which I found out: There's a new version of SQL due next year (wasn't aware of that one). SCOM 2007 was officially announced as...
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Monday, March 26, 2007 3:48 PM
Where I'll be at MMS...
I want to meet as many of you as possible at MMS - you know what I look like from my picture on here so come on up and say "hi". Of course I'll be at Registration this morning, hanging round the Alumni...
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Monday, March 26, 2007 3:32 PM
For all you MMS Newbies - don't be afraid...
... we're here to help. MMS can be a bit daunting for anyone that's never been before (I know I found it a bit daunting being in an area with thousands people none of which I knew and trying to work out...
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