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Top Ten Events in Systems Management During 2007

First of all, Happy New Year, and may everyone find that in 2008 that your glass is more than half full, you and your loved ones are all very healthy and overly happy, that your careers are very prosperous, and that you gain all that you desire and more. As we welcome another year and reflect on the...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 12-31-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, et. all, System Center, Vista, News, TechNet, Microsoft, myITforum, SCOM, MMS 2007, Blog, OSD, SoftGrid, ConfigMgr
Troubleshooting WMI With WMIDiag

If you have never worked with Microsoft PSS, PFE, QFE, MCS, RRE, or any other arm of their professional support staff you may not be aware of the tools that these army of men and women come equipped with to resolve issues. These are often home grown, field developed, custom tools that these same folks...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 08-22-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, SMS Tools, Scripting, Tools, System Center, TechNet, Microsoft, WMI, VB Script
WMI Stability Improvements Fix For Windows XP

Back in May Microsoft released the same type of fix for Windows 2003 and now it is ready for XP clients. SMS admins understand the pain of WMI corruption as well as anyone, and probably better than most. Getting permission denied errors when it has nothing to do with permissions, trying to diagnose client...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 06-26-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, Patching, News, Microsoft, WMI
SMS 2003 SP3 Due Out Friday

Thanks Paul! SMS 2003 SP3: Friday Yes, SMS 2003 SP3 is due to be posted this Friday April 27th (yes, 2007). The most reliable of sources has confirmed it. I don't know any other details. For example, will Premier customers get the first hit at it? Or what time of day. But at least some peole will...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 04-25-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, News, Microsoft
The SMS Connector for SoftGrid

I can’t say enough about this product, if you have not seen the demos on this visit the site and look at them here . If you have plans to package and send out and software this year with SMS I would encourage you to look at this as an alternative to the traditional ways of packaging and deploying...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 01-08-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, Packaging, Microsoft, SaaS
AZ SMS User Group Meeting Notes - October

Arizona System Management User Group (AZSMUG) Meeting Minutes Meeting Date: October 26, 2006 Next meeting: TBD Location: Microsoft Corporation 2929 North Central Avenue Suite 1400 Phoenix, AZ 85012 Announcements The Microsoft's Windows Vista Launch Blitz will take place in Phoenix, Arizona January the...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 11-21-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, Microsoft, myITforum, AZSMUG
Microsoft Announces Desktop Optimization Pack

Today it was officially announced that Microsoft will combine the recently acquired tools from Softricity, Winternals, and Desktop Standard into a single package that you can purchase for ~$50 per client. What this package gets you is SoftGrid application virtualization, group policy management/enhancement...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 10-17-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, Group Policy, Tools, Vista, News, Microsoft
SoftGrid + Folder Redirection + Group Policy = No More Down Time? No More App Installs?

Think back to the dumb terminal days, back when you only had to worry about your servers staying up. If an end user had a problem, they moved to a different terminal or you replaced it. Okay I wasn’t really working in IT back then but I have heard stories. Well imagine this…You give a user...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 10-17-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, Group Policy, Microsoft
Software as a Service - Kevin Explains it

Where do I sign up? I saw this at MMS but Kevin makes it a little more clear. Original source: Playing with SoftGrid... As you may or may not know, MSFT acquired a company named Softricity over the summer (www.softricity.com). The acquisition is now complete and we will be announcing the roadmap and...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 09-06-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, Tools, Microsoft, SCCM 2007
Microsoft Changes the WSUSScan.cab File

To make the WSUSScan file smaller they are getting rid of unsupported products. “… Microsoft is reducing the size of the WSUSScan.cab file by removing security updates for unsupported platforms, superseded security updates, and tools that are no longer needed.” Read it here . Changes...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 08-26-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, News, Microsoft

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