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Hi guys, We held two open houses this week, one on February 22nd at MediaTech Haifa and the other on February 24th at Microsoft Raanana. I would like to thank the large number of people who attended, it was great hearing your comments and questions. Attached below are all the PowerPoint decks from the events: Physical And Virtual Server Management View more presentations from Amit Gatenyo . Newest Family Member - IT Automation With Opalis View more presentations from Amit Gatenyo . Dynamic Server...
If you had to maintain a SCCM server in an offline environment you know it's not a simple task. One of the steps you have to carry out is to download all the updates from the Internet or to copy them from another WSUS/SCCM SUP server that is connected to Internet and had already downloaded all the updates. For the first method you can use this great post: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jgilbert/archive/2008/10/28/getting-required-updates-on-non-internet-connected-sups-part-1.aspx and part 2:...
The Search Folders that come with the software update point role in SCCM, provide an easy and comfortable way to keep track of you're update deployment status. I personally use 3 folders to keep track of my updates status "All Updates", "Deployed Updates" and "New Updates" , In this post I'll show you how you can create them yourself. Continue reading at our new blog - SCCM: Organize your software updates deployment
If you’re using Microsoft Windows Server Update Service s (WSUS), there may come a day when you need to move the updates to another drive. Once WSUS has been installed, the WSUS Administration tool doesn’t let you do this, but you can do it using a command line tool called wsusutil found in C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools . I’m running version 3.0 SP1. The command is: wsusutil movecontent logfile.log x:\WSUS (where x: is the new destination) If you have already copied the content (make sure...
SCCM uses a lot of log files, it could be quite confusing finding what you need. I gathered a list of all the log files and a description of their content to make life easy. The client logs are located in the %WINDIR%\System32\CCM\Logs folder or %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\CCM\Logs (for x64 OS). The SCCM server log files are located in the <INSTALL_PATH>\Logs or SMS_CCM\Logs folder. IIS logs can be found in %WINDIR%\System32\logfiles\W3SVC1 folder. NOTE: Use the Trace tool included in the SCCM Toolkit...
Management of Virtual Machines is not just about managing the VM’s themselves but also the workloads that run in them. The key to managing the entire IT infrastructure is the integration of both physical and virtual machine management into a single set of tools. I’ll be giving a presentation on managing a virtual datacenter with SCOM, SCCM, DPM and VMM at a Microsoft Open House that will be held on February 3rd at Microsoft Israel. The main point in my presentation is that when looking at the data...
A very cool tool I came across with is the SCCM Client Center. As it's name applies it is used for SMS/SCCM client management, it has many functions and a very cool GUI... Continue reading at our new blog - http://www.dario.co.il/blog/?p=365
Microsoft has released a new document to help you create custom reports. You can download it here . Overview Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 queries SQL Server views in the Configuration Manager site database when retrieving the information displayed in reports. The Configuration Manager site SQL database contains a large collection of information about the network, computers, users, user groups, and many other components of the computing environment. The database also contains...
Issue: After upgrading from SMS 2003 SP2 or SP3 to the Select version of Configuration Manager 2007 SP1, you may see the following status message: SMS_SQL_MONITOR_SiteServer - 2407 SMS SQL Monitor failed to install trigger "SQLTaskStatus_upd" in the SMS site database. Possible cause: Either table "SQLTaskStatus" or column "TaskName,TaskType" of table "SQLTaskStatus" does not exist in the SMS site database. Solution: If you modified table "SQLTaskStatus"...
As promised, I’ve uploaded the presentations from the sessions I gave on December 18th at Microsoft Israel. Enjoy. Physical And Virtual Server Management Deploying Windows With Configuration Manager 2007 R2 Data Protection Manager 2007 Dynamic Server Provisioning With Ops Manager And Hyper V – Notes From The Field
Check out these direct download links to a bunch of highly usable tools that can make your life easier: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides Microsoft Deployment 2008 Toolkit Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool Sharepoint Monitoring Toolkit Service Level Dashboard Management Pack Security Compliance Management Toolkit
The IBM Deployment Pack for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 is a deployment kit that extends Configuration Manager 2007 by providing IBM utilities, drivers, and custom tasks for creating automated deployment scripts for IBM target servers. The IBM extensions are available as built-in actions within the Configuration Manager menus. The IBM Deployment Pack includes various IBM and third-party tools that are needed to configure items such as RAID adapters, management cards, BIOS settings...
Two new IPD guides has been published: Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 with R2 Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Download them from the following link .
SQL Server 2008 is now supported on Configuration Manager 2007 RTM and SP1 System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (RTM and SP1) now supports the use of SQL Server 2008 as a site database. In order to upgrade a site-server database to SQL 2008 there are 2 hot fixes required: ConfigMgr 2007 RTM customers must apply hot fix KB955229 ConfigMgr 2007 SP1 customers must apply hot fix KB955262 The following are requirements when performing a clean install on a SQL Server 2008 database: A clean install...
I'll be presenting a session tomorrow about OS Deployment with Configuration Manager 2007 at a Microsoft Solution Briefing conference. OS Deployment can be a major time consumer in an IT shop, I will demonstrate that when done right, it can be achieved using minimal effort and in much less time then expected. For more information, check out my presentation:
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