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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
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
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 Hardware Inventory Causes Client CPU To Hit 100%

Update : Garth has reported this same problem with browser objects on his blog . "Take a look at your browse objects, do they have the same language setting as your PC? If not there have been reports of the PC hit 100% CPU if the language of a browser object is not the same as the local PC."...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 05-18-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, KB Articles, News
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
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
ITMU What's New?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/downloads/sms/2003/tools/itmurev3.mspx What’s New in the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates Revision 3 Published: November 2, 2006 Related Links • Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates General FAQ • Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates Revision 3 FAQ...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 11-08-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, News
New ITMU Scanner Available

Version 3 of ITMU was released on Thursday with some confusion. It was first stated that SMS 2003 SP2 sites should not install this version, on Friday this was updated by Microsoft to include sites running SP2. So if you are running anything less than Beta SP3 or SCCM 2007 then you should begin your...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 11-04-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, News
Buy This Book! SMS 2003 Administrator's Reference: Systems Management Server 2003

Ron’s book is out now. You can get it from Amazon …Run, don’t walk. http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rcrumbaker/archive/2006/11/03/SMS-2003-Administrator_2700_s-Reference_3A00_-Systems-Management-Server-2003-.aspx '> Listen to this article

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 11-04-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, News, myITforum
AZ Systems Management User Group Meeting 10-26

From Mike’s email. Don’t miss out if you are in the area! We are planning on having our second meeting on Thursday, October 26th. Remember to create a logo for our user group, as we will be voting on one at the next meeting. Please send me your logos by Wednesday, October 25th. You can find...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 10-24-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, News

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