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Saturday, November 08, 2008 4:05 AM

Updated ADMP and DHCP MP Released!

ADMP Its been a long time coming but the updated Active Directory MP has been released! Highlights for the update include -Support for Windows Server 2008 -Improved monitoring for replication, essential services and time service -Support for multiple
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Friday, November 07, 2008 5:54 PM

Maintenance Mode in the Console

I recently posted a web based utility that I created to allow administrators and even non-OpsMgr users to be able to trigger/schedule maintenance mode.  Another really cool use for such a web based tool is that it can be configured for use through
Posted by steverac | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 04, 2008 7:21 AM

Upcoming Technet Webcase on OpsMgr 2007

Microsoft Consulting Services will be hosting a TechNet Webcast to discuss architecting solutions in OpsMgr 2007. Registration information is available at http://blogs.technet.com/mcstalks/archive/2008/11/02/session-8-details-registration-now-available.asp
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 5:29 PM

Sample Linked Report MP

I've seen several posts on various forums where folks are looking for samples showing how to build an MP containing linked reports. The report authoring guide refers to some sample files but, those files don't exist anywhere. I just finished up some linked
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Attachment(s): CustomOpsMgrReportsMPforDemo.xml
Monday, October 27, 2008 9:28 PM

Enough with the Maintenance Mode tools!!!

OK, I've got one more! :) I put together a web application to help with maintenance mode. This was my first attempt at building a web application so I'm sure there are inefficiencies and better ways to do it - so be kind with the comments! I wrote this
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Attachment(s): MMScheduler.zip
Thursday, October 23, 2008 6:45 PM

Grouping Windows Computer Objects and Health Service Watcher Objects - updated

In my original post I gave the XML required to associate windows computer objects and health service watcher objects - but I didn't walk through exactly how to set this all up.  I've updated the post with a walkthrough of how to put all the pieces
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Sunday, October 19, 2008 4:54 AM

MDT and SCCM 2007 - better together

Now that R2 for SCCM has shipped that includes multicast support, unknown computer support and run as support in OSD one might ask the question - why do I need MDT?  There is a great deal to MDT, including the ability to operate standalone and in
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Sunday, October 19, 2008 4:06 AM

OpsMgr 2007 Command Line Notifications and Alert ID

Was working on setting up some command line notifications this week and ran into an issue I didn't find documented anywhere so thought I'd post it here. When using command line notifications it is often of interest to pass command line variables to the
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Sunday, October 19, 2008 1:51 AM

Setting up Multicasting in SCCM

Multicasting is a new feature of R2 in SCCM and is a welcome addition to the OSD feature. Multicast allows for image deployment with a much reduced network load. If, for example, you are deploying a 500 MB image to 20 workstations that have just arrived
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Friday, October 17, 2008 8:36 AM

Grouping Windows Computer Objects and Associated Health Service Watcher Object

The question has come up several times - how do you create a group that contains windows computer objects and their associated health service watcher object?  First, why would you even want to?  A key reason is because of the way OpsMgr admins
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Friday, October 03, 2008 7:25 PM

Gateways and agents in untrusted domains/workgroups

If you have agents in an untrusted domain/forest or workgroup you will have to install certificates in the environment and either manag the agents through a gateway (minimal number of certs) or by installing certs on the agents directly (many more certs). 
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Friday, October 03, 2008 4:38 PM

Granular Targeting in OpsMgr 2007

Understanding the various targeting options and when to use each is something every OpsMgr admin will face at some point.  To help explain options I wrote an article how targeting works and when to use each option.  The article appears in the
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:10 PM

Unique 31569 Event Deploying Reports

Just ran across a unique error when attempting to deploy reports from the RMS to the reporting server.  The event is a familiar one - 31569 - but the error is one that I haven't run across before Event Type:     Error Event Source:  
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Sunday, September 21, 2008 7:26 AM

Unknown Computers in SCCM 2007 R2- how it works

My previous blog entry discussed how to configure unknown computer support in SCCM 2007 R2 - but how exactly does it work?  I was curious so dug in a bit.  Let's start by reviewing the logs from an 'unknown' system that has booted from a CD
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Sunday, September 21, 2008 7:21 AM

Unknown Computers in SCCM 2007 R2 - overview

One of the new features in SCCM 2007 R2 is support for OSD deployments to 'Unknown' Computers - computers that do not exist in the SCCM database. This is a feature that did exist in previous releases of OSD (SMS 2003) but was removed for security and
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