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April 2006 - Posts

After MMS 2006

So after a week in US @ MMS I am back in Poland . Here’s a couple of impressions from the Microsoft Management Summit 2006 in San Diego . Technical Side There were some exciting new things announced and presented at the summit. For me the most interesting Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 30, 2006 2:38 PM by alipka | 0 Comments

Working @ Microsoft - great article by Michael Brundage

Michael Brundage has written some time ago a very interesting (and also very true in my opinion) article about working at Microsoft: http://www.qbrundage.com/michaelb/pubs/essays/working_at_microsoft.html Enjoy:) Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 23, 2006 10:40 AM by alipka | 0 Comments

Using regular expressions in MOM

Ever used regular expressions in MOM? You can use this handy little tool to help you verify your syntax: http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:30 PM by alipka | 3 Comments

Monitoring Active Directory backups with MOM

Tomek has hinted me with this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=914034 You can use it to setup monitoring of AD backups (system state backups on domain controllers) with MOM. I have not yet had the time to test it out, but it should be pretty Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:59 PM by alipka | 1 Comments
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Monitoring and backing up event logs with MOM

With MOM you can automate the following tasks: - check event log free space on MOM agent computers - backup the event logs to a remote share I have attached the 2 scripts I used for this (modified well-known scripts from Scripting Center ). I also attached Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 09, 2006 12:01 PM by alipka | 22 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://lipkaa.members.winisp.net/MOM%202005/MonitorEventLogs.zip

Forcing immediate software package distribution in SMS 2003

A lot of people have been asking about it… I have been shortly engaged by a customer using Novell ZENworks and wanting to convert to SMS 2003. One of the functionalities in ZEN lacking in SMS is the possibility to immediately force updates onto clients. Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:23 AM by alipka | 3 Comments
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How to install MOM 2005 and SMS 2003 on a SQL 2005 backend

I posted an article on this topic if you are interested: http://blogs.technet.com/alipka/articles/424009.aspx I went through the routine and found no good documentation on this so I thought I'd put it up. Read More...
Posted Monday, April 03, 2006 2:43 PM by alipka | 0 Comments
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Let’s meet at the MMS conference!

Meet me at the MMS If you are going to the Microsoft Management Summit , you can meet me:) I will be stationed at the Group Policy booth in these times: Slot Day Time WX01 Mon 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM WX11 Tue 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM WX22 Wed 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM WX23 Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 02, 2006 2:09 PM by alipka | 0 Comments

Windows Live Mail Beta - a user's perspective

Today I got an account in Windows Live Mail Beta (FINALLY, after 2 months). Although it is a little early to comment on it, it is hard not to compare it to GMail. GMail’s been around for a long while, evolving all the time. Here are my impressions: POSITIVES Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 02, 2006 9:04 AM by alipka | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) – Changing Quadrant: the "What", "Why", and "How"

WHAT? This week, Wednesday till Friday, I took part in the MOF – Changing Quadrant training. I already had some background about MOF and IT Operations in general: ¾ Rough knowledge of ITIL (be sure to check a great ITIL overview on Wikipedia ) ¾ MOF Essentials Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 01, 2006 11:01 PM by alipka | 4 Comments
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