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Going for the Green!
Anthony Clendenen
writes "Green computing is a hot topic these days. And “Big Green” (a k a Microsoft) wants to make sure its next-gen Windows Server products are among the greenest of them all."
Check it out! SMS 2003 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 Locked and loaded here.
Stefan Stranger
writes "The Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Management Pack provides proactive monitoring of your Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 environment. It includes detection and monitoring of all SMS 2003 servers and dependent services, alert driven state, topology diagram, performance and backlog monitoring and configuration, performance and availability reports. ( Here is a ) feature Summary..."
Importing An Application How To
Anthony Clendenen
writes "So now that you have successfully sequenced an application, now what the heck do you do with it? The very short answer is you import it. But what would be the point of this post if I didn't explain it? "
Secret Sauce to Sharepoint and Outlook Integration
Sanjay Shetty
writes "You can now Open, edit, and update files from a SharePoint site inside of outlook.....the only issue I have with this is that each Shared Document library is synchronized completely. Would have loved to see a feature where one could choose which Sub-Folders"
SMS Remote Roaming Boundaries Explained
Anthony Clendenen
writes " The diagrams....explain local and remote roaming boundaries. Our main character is Terry, he is sales person in the LA office, which is a remote office. Terry is going to the headquarters office with his laptop for a sales meeting and I demonstrate what happens with his SMS client once he ventures into a SMS site that he is not assigned to, and what happens when he goes to his hotel room and connects over VPN."
SCCM Adopts WSUS Interface for Patching
Anthony Clendenen
writes "If you are considering SCCM 2007 and you have your 'legacy' SMS 2003 running on ITMU or ITCU? -Forget it! SCCM 2007 will use WSUS. But will a few lesser screenclicks..."
New SMS and Vista Virtual Labs
Anthony Clendenen
writes "Deploying Windows Vista with SMS 2003 After completing this lab, you will be better able to: Install the SMS 2003 OS Deployment Feature Pack Update. Install USMT 3.0 to capture and restore user state information. Create an Image Capture Wizard CD. Image..."
The SMS Connector for SoftGrid
Anthony Clendenen
writes "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..."
How to Troubleshoot Advanced Client Install
Anthony Clendenen
writes "How to troubleshoot Advanced Client Push Installation issues in Systems Management Server 2003 View products....Very nice info in this KB – Great job guys!"
Get your Free SMS Tools
Anthony Clendenen
writes "....free tools for SMS, most of these tools have been around for a while but maybe you have forgotten about them or never seen them. In either case, here is a list of the free tools and what they do."
New SMS 2003 KB Articles
Anthony Clendenen
writes "If you have noticed that your SMS database increases in size after you install SMS 2003 SP2 then this KB article might be for you. If your SMS client cannot discover the site code when the SLP is running on 2003 SP1, then this might be your solution...."
How to create SQL temporary tables within SSIS packages?
Jamie Thomson
writes "There have been a few posts on the SSIS MSDN Forum asking how one can create and use SQL Server temporary tables within SSIS packages. My answer was always "Set RetainSameConnection=TRUE on the connection manager and set DelayValidation=TRUE on all tasks that use the temp table...."
DCOM Errors in Event Viewer - How to Determine the correct DCOM Server
Anthony Clendenen
writes "I have seen this several times and been asked about it as well. If you see DCOM errors in event viewer that state they do not have the right permissions, usually launch permissions you will get something like this: Source: DCOM EventID: 10016 The machine-default..."
New ITMU Scanner Available
Anthony Clendenen
writes "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..."
SMS R2 - available to download
Eileen Brown
writes "I noticed today on Blakes blog and Rod's blog that Systems Management Server 2003 R2 is now available for download..."
SMS 2003 R2 Released to Manufacturing
Windows Connected
writes "It appears that Systems Management Server 2003 R2 has released to manufacturing. Continuing the ‘R2’ strategy, SMS 2003 R2 adds functionality on top of an existing product in an evolutionary way (unlike revolutionary upgrades, such as the eventual upgrade from SMS 2003 to System Center Configuration Manager 2007).
Here’s a brief overview of the new features in this release:
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Deploying Windows Vista using SMS 2003
John Howard
writes "Particularly apt given Windows Vista Beta 2 was release on Tuesday this week is a webcast coming up next week (30th May) at 8AM Pacific (4PM UK time) about how to use SMS 2003 to deploy operating systems in general, and specifically the Operating System Deployment Feature Pack, and the support that is available for deploying Windows Vista
Signup link is here.
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Why doesn't SMS check to see whether I've actually installed security updates before inflicting them upon me?
Steve Lamb
writes "The SMS client is present on my computer (Windows XP SP2) to ensure that it's up to date with security updates. I think that's a good thing.
I happen to also use Windows Update and therefore tend to have security updates on my machine before I arrive in the office. Due to traffic in the UK I often work from home first thing in the morning and thereby reduce my commute.
Unfortunately SMS kicks in when I connect to the corporate network (as it did this morning) and informs me that I must allow it to update my system some time today.
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SMS betas - come and play
Eileen Brown
writes "I've been ignoring MOM and SMS recently - I've been too fired up playing with E12 all week. But I've seen a couple of beta programs that you may want to get involved with, so get you up to speed on SMS. Here are the SMS betas that you can currently participate in:..."
SMS 2.0 SUS Feature pack
Eileen Brown
writes "I saw this the other day, and thought it was worth reproducing to make sure that, if you're using MBSA, you can still keep yourself fully up to date..."
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