Steve Rachui's Manageability blog - ConfigMgr/OpsMgr
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A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 5
- Is it possible to create a view and export it for use elsewhere? How would we export from lab and...
Author: steverac Date: 01/06/2008
A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 4
- Is it possible to write a rule/monitor that targets all objects, a single object and all objects...
Author: steverac Date: 01/06/2008
A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 3
- Is “my workspace” tied to a particular machine or account? When you customize “My Workspace” in...
Author: steverac Date: 01/06/2008
A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 2
- How can an agent be placed in maintenance mode from the command line? What are the other options...
Author: steverac Date: 01/06/2008
A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 1
A few questions have come up of late that I thought might be of interest so am reposting, along with...
Author: steverac Date: 01/06/2008
What's new/interesting in SCOM 2007?
Happy new year to all! A few things I thought might be of interest! Maintenance mode Questions...
Author: steverac Date: 01/03/2008
SCOM 2007 - operational and datawarehouse grooming
The mechanism for grooming the operational database in SCOM has changed compared to MOM 2005. In MOM...
Author: steverac Date: 12/13/2007
SCOM 2007 - SP1 available
The release candidate of SCOM 2007 service pack 1 is available for download., This release candidate...
Author: steverac Date: 11/20/2007
Branch DP Internals - client side - SCCM 2007
The last post detailed required server side processing to prepare a package for distribution to the...
Author: steverac Date: 11/19/2007
Branch DP internals - SCCM 2007
Many customers have begun using the new Branch Distribution Point feature in SCCM 2007 - and it is...
Author: steverac Date: 10/26/2007
Collection variables in SCCM 2007
Came across the need to work with collection variables recently with SCCM 2007. This is a feature...
Author: steverac Date: 08/31/2007
System Center Config Manager has released!
It's been a long wait but the product has finally released to manufacturing. Enjoy!
Author: steverac Date: 08/31/2007
SMS 2003 - Heartbeat Discovery
There are several discovery methods in SMS 2003 but there is only one discovery method that MUST be...
Author: steverac Date: 06/29/2007
BDD 2007 - driver injection.
Ever wondered how BDD 2007 driver injection actually works? There are actually three possibilities -...
Author: steverac Date: 04/27/2007
SCCM 2007 - Binary Delta Replication
Support for delta replication was introduced in SMS 2003. Delta replication means that when a...
Author: steverac Date: 03/20/2007
Presenting at MMS 2007
For those interested in understanding the internals of server side software distribution in SMS or...
Author: steverac Date: 03/02/2007
SCCM 2007 OSD - boot images - drivers - lab shell
In the SMS 2003 OSD feature pack one of the common challenges was having the correct drivers on hand...
Author: steverac Date: 03/02/2007
SCCM 2007 OSD and driver catalogs
A challenge for customers in OSD feature pack was having the correct drivers available for the...
Author: steverac Date: 02/18/2007
SMS 2003 OSD feature pack and Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
There has been some confusion of late regarding the use of OSD feature pack to deploy Windows Vista...
Author: steverac Date: 01/28/2007
SCCM 2007 OSD and task sequences
Another big change for OSD in SCCM 2007 is the introduction of the 'task sequencing' engine. As the...
Author: steverac Date: 01/21/2007
OSD in SCCM 2007
There have been quite a few updates to OSD in SCCM 2007. I’ll use the next several entries to go...
Author: steverac Date: 01/16/2007
Business Desktop Deployment 2007
I've been spending a fair number of cycles recently working with the pending update to BDD - BDD...
Author: steverac Date: 01/01/2007
NAP and SCCM 2007 - how it works
It's time to dig into the details of NAP/SCCM 2007 processing. We will start the discussion with a...
Author: steverac Date: 11/17/2006
NAP and SCCM2007 interaction
My previous post provided information and links to help gain a general understanding of how NAP...
Author: steverac Date: 11/06/2006
Network Access Protection in SCCM 2007
Network Access Protection (NAP) is a cool new feature of the next Windows Server release. In short,...
Author: steverac Date: 10/01/2006
SCCM 2007 - peer DP functionality - on demand provisioning
The last two entries provided an overview of the peer DP role in SCCM 2007 and also discussed admin...
Author: steverac Date: 09/08/2006
SCCM 2007 - Peer DP functionality - admin provisioning
The last entry began the discussion of peer DP's with an overview description of this new feature. I...
Author: steverac Date: 08/28/2006
SCCM2007 - Peer DP functionality
I've been spending a fair amount of time of late working with SCCM2007 - which is currently...
Author: steverac Date: 08/18/2006
Grooming in MOM 2005
The 'under the covers' mechanics of grooming has changed substantially in MOM 2005 compared to...
Author: steverac Date: 08/11/2006
SMS heartbeat discovery and delete aged discovery task
From time to time we get calls from admins who have updated the frequency at which the 'delete aged...
Author: steverac Date: 08/03/2006
State based alerts in MOM 2005
Alerts in MOM are generally used to inform administrators of a potential problem condition. By the...
Author: steverac Date: 07/18/2006
Understanding and troubleshooting the MOM DTS package
We see a fair number of issues relating to failure of the MOM DTS package to execute. There can be...
Author: steverac Date: 07/10/2006
Understanding SMS client Side Software Installation Security
I published a brief article in Technet magazine to try and explain the often misunderstood concepts...
Author: steverac Date: 06/29/2006
ITMU and patchinstall
The question has come up several times about whether it is possible to run the ITMU version of...
Author: steverac Date: 06/25/2006
MOM 2005 SP1 now officially supports SQL 2005
Many have been asking and it is now official - we support MOM 2005 SP1 running on SQL 2005. For...
Author: steverac Date: 04/26/2006
Desired Configuration Manager for SMS 2003
I've been working a great deal of late with the Desired Configuration Manager manaement pack for SMS...
Author: steverac Date: 04/09/2006
Working with SNMP and MOM
Questions seem to be coming up more and more about using SNMP with MOM 2005. I thought I'd take a...
Author: steverac Date: 03/07/2006
Link to document
Entry to provide a link to my MOM 2005 solution accerators document that was published recently in...
Author: steverac Date: 02/22/2006
SMS and package hashing
One of the top features of SMS 2003 is the ability to distribute software throughout the enterprise....
Author: steverac Date: 02/20/2006
MOM Operator console sluggish
Have you ever had problems with the MOM Operator console running slowly? This came up just recently...
Author: steverac Date: 02/20/2006
SQL 2005 and SMS/MOM
A lot of folks are asking about support for SQL 2005 with SMS 2003 and MOM 2005. Neither of the...
Author: steverac Date: 02/11/2006
MOM 2005 providers
MOM 2005 providers are used to define where data being monitored by MOM is coming from/located....
Author: steverac Date: 02/11/2006
Heartbeat detection in MOM 2005
MOM 2005 agents routinely report their presence to their assigned management server by sending a...
Author: steverac Date: 02/11/2006