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Infrastructure & Management User Group–31/1/2012
Hi guys, Thank you all for attending the meeting last week, it was great seeing a lot of familiar faces. Attached below are the two presentations from the event, first one the overview I gave on System Center 2012 (and we will delve more deeply into each product in the next UG meetings) second presentation is the one Daniel Petri gave about migrating from AD 2003 to AD 2008 R2. Next meeting is scheduled for March 18th and will be on two of the most requested topics from our poll: Hyper-V Tips and...
System Center 2012 Technical Overviews
Check out the following presentations from a recent open house we held: System Center 2012 Technical Overview View more presentations from Amit Gatenyo   System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Overview View more presentations from Amit Gatenyo     System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 Overview View more presentations from Amit Gatenyo     System Center Operations Manager 2012 Overview View more presentations from Amit Gatenyo     System Center Virtual Machine...
Two Events for September
Hi, We are sponsoring two events this September. First one is on the 18th, I will be lecturing @ Microsoft Infra Days 2011 on a seminar called “The Future of Microsoft Infrastructure Platform – The Complete Roadmap”, below is the invitation (follow the link for more details):   The other event we sponsor is Microsoft main event for Middle-Market clients, an event titled “Be what’s next” that will be held on the 19th. I will be presenting the session on “Building & Managing Services with...
Moving WSUS Server Updates Folder
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...
The full and complete list of SCCM Log Files
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...
It’s bound to happen: How to handle alert storms
No matter how careful you are. No matter how many times you’ve checked your parameters and state conditions. No matter how many times you tested it out of production. It happens. Some misconfigured rule - or even an event that happens much differently in a production environment then in test - begins firing off alerts. Maybe you don’t notice it right away - perhaps you haven’t setup notifications for this particular rule... Continue reading at our new blog - http://www.dario.co.il/blog/?p=350
Cool registry keys for OpsMgr 2007
A little warning first.. When dealing with the registry you should always work smart-> Backup you registry and write down the changes you make. Lets get to business... If you tried running an agent task on more than 10 computers at once you've probably got this error message: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: target To get around this somewhat weird limitation you can use the following registry key to control the number of objects to fetch Tasks/Reports... Continue reading at our new blog...
SCCM Client Center
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
Creating Custom Reports By Using Configuration Manager 2007 SQL Views
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...
ConfigMgr 2007: Status Message 2407 in SMS_SQL_MONITOR after upgrade from SMS 2003
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"...
OpsMgr 2007: The Operations Manager 32-bit agent is supported on 64-bit Operating Systems
Under certain circumstances it may be necessary to install the OpsMgr 32-bit agent on a 64-bit operating system to monitor a 32-bit application. This is a supported configuration but the 32-bit agent must be installed manually and both the 32-bit and 64-bit OpsMgr agent cannot be installed simultaneously... Continue reading at our new blog - http://www.dario.co.il/blog/?p=368