Andrzej's "IT Thoughts" Weblog
Loose thoughts about IT management&operations
Moving the Blog to Wordpress
I am moving my blog to https://alipka.wordpress.com. The reason is ... you may be surprised: I am...
Date: 09/14/2008
SCCM SP1 slipstream setup on SMS 2003 SP2/SP3 site fails to remove SMS_SQL_MONITOR service
As the topic of the post suggests, there is a small bug in the SCCM SP1 slipstream setup. This...
Date: 07/22/2008
New (6.0.6278.12) E2k7 OpMGR MP discovery and rule bugs
The just released E2k7 MP has two important bugs in it. I communicated this to the product group,...
Date: 07/16/2008
Writing English documents the "proper" way
While working on internal Hyper-V documentation I wrote over 200 pages of content (mostly...
Date: 07/02/2008
Off-topic things and some Hyper-V goodies (resources, backup and AzMan scope scripts)
Lately it's been very quiet on my blog. There are a couple of things to that. First and foremost...
Date: 07/02/2008
OpsMgr 2007 "Registered Servers" in Operations Console
There is a tab when you select Tools->Connect from Ops Console that is called "Registered...
Date: 05/14/2008
What makes an ideal OpsMgr administrator/specialist/consultant?
Walter posted an interesting entry on his blog about OpgMgr 2007 qualifications and requirements:...
Date: 04/18/2008
System Center Visio Connector available for download
My friend Tomek (https://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/tomek/default.aspx) pointed me to the new tool for...
Date: 04/06/2008
OpsMgr 2007 - noisy Cluster MP (6.0.6277.0) [update]
[update!]: issue is now corrected in 6.0.6277.1 MP, thanks to Marius for quick reaction on this:...
Date: 03/17/2008
OpsMgr: Modified Brian's Scheduled Maintenance Mode MP
Together with my colleague Marek Kuzminski, we have slightly modified Brian's scheduled maintenance...
Date: 03/10/2008
OpsMgr 2007 Powershell one-liner to get information on failed agent installations
Ever tried mass-installing a lot of agents from console? If yes, then you probably miss some...
Date: 03/04/2008
Ops Mgr 2007 custom MP for monitoring event log size [updated!]
[UPDATE]: I have update the MP in recovery part. It was not possible to override the recovery...
Date: 03/03/2008
SCCM UI extension for forcing client-side actions from console
I am posting a set of console extensions that will add right click functionality similar to that in...
Date: 02/28/2008
Issue with OpsMgr SP1 RC/RTM running AD MP on DCs with non EN-US locale [update]
[update]: An MP update is now available which corrects this issue...
Date: 02/06/2008
Modifying default Ops Mgr 2007 ports
So you are migrating from MOM 2005 to 2007 and do not want to go through the hassle of changing your...
Date: 02/01/2008
SCCM 2007 - couple of deployment tips
When you get to deploying SCCM, there is a couple of issues you may see. Below I summarize some of...
Date: 01/12/2008
SCCM Licensing simple FAQ
I am definitely not a "sales" type of guy ;) and usually know nothing about licensing, but people do...
Date: 01/07/2008
[off topic] Biking, Christmas, Motivation...
My friend Jaro (our Xbox Bike Team Director ;)) started the new website for our XBOX bike team:...
Date: 12/23/2007
OpsMgr 2007 - Putting computers in maintenance mode remotely
So you have a simple case where a server operator needs to perform some maintenance and he does not...
Date: 12/20/2007
Wake on Lan in SCCM2007 [updated]
Wake on LAN is a new feature of SCCM that was not present in SMS. You can use it to wake offline...
Date: 12/16/2007
OpsMgr 2007 Authoring Resources [updated]
Here is a couple of resources useful for MP authoring in OpsMgr2007. Its a completely different...
Date: 12/11/2007
Configuration Manager 2007 DCM Configuration Packs list
DCM (Desired Configuration Manager) lets you compare you IT infrastructure configuration with...
Date: 11/16/2007
SCCM 64 bit considerations [updated]
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 does not ship with any server roles based on x64. So what...
Date: 11/13/2007
OpsMgr 2007 SP1 RC Console crashes on x64 [updated]
When you try to open the Distributed Application Designer from a console installed on an x64 server...
Date: 11/08/2007
Team Foundation Server goodies [updated]
Here's a couple of interesting links around TFS that are really worth sharing: Sizing Guide for TFS...
Date: 10/31/2007
Microsoft Deployment (formerly known as BDD) goes RTM [updated]
Business Desktop Deployment Solution accelerator is now called officially MD (Microsoft Deployment)....
Date: 10/27/2007
System Center Certifications
I watched (well with one eye to tell you the truth, working with the other;)) the webcast on new SC...
Date: 10/25/2007
SMS 2003 with SP3 my subjective "top 5 deployment issues" [updated!]
Doing recently a pretty distributed (over 100 sites) SMS deployment I stumbled upon several issues....
Date: 06/22/2007
Automating SMS 2003 Secondary Site installations
I've been a bit quiet lately on my blog. I regret it, but I hope to come back with some good content...
Date: 05/21/2007
How to use custom actions in Visual Studio setup project (MSI) from command line
I'm lately back to development project work. A useful thing I found out during deployment project...
Date: 04/20/2007
Quick impressions from MMS '07
This years' MMS is quite interesting with many new products in System Center family and other...
Date: 03/29/2007
TFS/MSBuild caveats
Once again I am a bit off track from MOM. I've been digging more into Team Foundation Server lately....
Date: 03/19/2007
MOM 2005 - removing old agents from Database
If you have some agents that you definitely removed from your management group by MOM admin console,...
Date: 02/23/2007
Recording browser session in Ops Manager 2007 RC2
After you install Ops Manager 2007 RC2 you might experience an issue with recording a browser...
Date: 01/23/2007
Ops Manager 2007 RC2 - modifying the default port number for agent communication
When deploying OM 2007 you might want to use the same port as the good, old MOM 2005 (1270) instead...
Date: 01/10/2007
Ops Mgr 2007 RC2 Web Console install from Command Line
This is undocumented in the RC2 documentation pack, but might come in useful. Especially if you hit...
Date: 01/05/2007
Ops Manager 2007 RC2 Exchange 2003 MP mailflow issue
When you set up mailflow receiver and sender on one, same server you might notice following issue:...
Date: 01/03/2007
Ops Manager 2007 RC2 first impressions
I am preparing a pilot deployment of OM 2007 RC2. There are a couple of first impressions I wanted...
Date: 12/22/2006
Extending SMS Hardware Inventory
Doing a demo, I came upon a task to extend the built-in hardware inventory of SMS 2003. I was using...
Date: 12/14/2006
SQL MP 09.0.2047.0000 Reports fail
You may have noticed that when you import the latest SQL MP (09.0.2047.0000) Reports .XML file from...
Date: 12/07/2006
Support for MOM 2005 databases on different OS and SQL architectures
Looks like I’m back to Operations Manager (at least for some time;)) Here is a post that will...
Date: 11/23/2006
Using Visual Studio Team System for Testers for automating web application tests
I was recently using VSTS for testers edition which has some nice feature for testing web...
Date: 10/08/2006
“Fuzzy logic” search in SQL Server
I was looking hard for a good, robust, yet possibly simple and fast to implement method of “fuzzy”...
Date: 09/05/2006
Technet Magazine – September issue, MRAS re-release info
I am sorry to disappoint my readers (if any, after such a long period of inactivity;)) with my low...
Date: 08/23/2006