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OPINION: Software Updates or Software Deployments

Under SCCM (and SMS), there are two different methods for the deployment of software "bits" to an end-user's system. These two different methods have clear distinctions in how they operate and what they should be used for, but there is a gray area between them that can be a bit muddled...

Posted to Jeff Huston at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jhuston on 12-20-2007
Filed under: Patch Management, Package Deployment, Deployment, SMS 2003, SCCM 2007
Why Patch Tuesday Turns Into Patch Thursday or Friday or Monday

I used to hate the second Tuesday of every month. I honestly liked it better when patches were released as they were ready. What happens with the scheduled updates is that everyone knows that it is coming and that means that everyone expects their SMS Engineers to have the patches deployed that night...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 10-09-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, et. all, Security, KB Articles, Rants, Packaging, Patching, Reports, SCCM 2007, Funny, SUP, ConfigMgr, Configuration Manager, SCCM
SoftGrid SMS Connector Discontinued

The SoftGrid connector will be deprecated in the near future and replaced with Windows Installer Application Virtualization Extension or WIAV. The reasons they are moving away from the SMS Connector is due to future plans and interoperability with old and new products. What is it? Yes, you in the back...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 09-12-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, SMS Tools, Packaging, News, SCCM 2007, SaaS, SoftGrid, Application Virtualization, ConfigMgr
MMS 2007 - Day 2 - Keynote Speech

Rodney Sherwood starts off the keynote again this year with this comedy and a video of interviewing the stars at MMS. Senior VP Server and Tools, Bob Muglia was the keynote speaker. He started out with the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI). One part of the DSI is Virtualized infrastructure which consists...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 03-27-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, System Center, Vista, News, SCCM 2007, SCOM, MMS 2007, Virtual Server, SoftGrid, SUP
Building and Deploying Vista from an Image

Aaron has put together a great list of resources for building a Vista image. If you have not used Vista, or read about it, the install process as well as how the OS is built is different than XP and prior OS’s. In addition with the new OSD FP/USMT we move to .xml files, but probably the most interesting...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 11-28-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, Tools, Vista, SCCM 2007, OSD
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
Reassign an SMS or Configuration Manager Client to another Site

Some time ago, I wrote an article about reassigning an SMS client to another SMS site. Since this topic seems to crop up periodically on both the myITforum list and public newsgroups, it is worth mentioning here. At the time this script was developed, we were closing a large office in one location and...

Posted to Steve Thompson at myITforum.com (Weblog) by sthompson on 02-11-2008
Filed under: Scripting, SMS 2003, SCCM 2007, VBScript
How do I tune SQL Server memory for optimal performance with SMS/SCCM?

Question: We are in the process of fine tuning our primary site. We are looking at changing some setting in SQL 2005. Is anyone using AWE to allocate memory with SCCM? Also is there a recommendation to use a maximum server memory? We have 4 gb of memory on our Primary Site Server with the database on...

Posted to Steve Thompson at myITforum.com (Weblog) by sthompson on 03-04-2008
Filed under: SQL Server, SMS 2003, SCCM 2007
How do I use a wildcard for add remove program information?

Question: What I really could use is report #96 ("Computers with specific software registered in Add Remove Programs"), that allows me to include a wildcard, so I can find not only "Adobe Acrobat 8.0.0 Professional", but "Adobe Acrobat 7.0.8 Professional", and "Adobe...

Posted to Steve Thompson at myITforum.com (Weblog) by sthompson on 03-13-2008
Filed under: SQL Server, SMS 2003, SCCM 2007, SQL, Reporting
New Features in SCCM 2007

Systems Management Configuration Manager 2007 [Steve] Note: amended 3/2008 to correct and replace beta name of product. New Features (from SMS 2003) · Operating system deployment Operating System Deployment provides the Configuration Manager 2007 administrator with a tool for creating images that can...

Posted to Steve Thompson at myITforum.com (Weblog) by sthompson on 02-07-2008
Filed under: SMS 2003, SCCM 2007

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