I am moving my blog to http://alipka.wordpress.com . The reason is ... you may be surprised: I am leaving Microsoft, and going to work in another company (you will probably hear soon on that from my new blog). I will still work with Microsoft technologies...

As the topic of the post suggests, there is a small bug in the SCCM SP1 slipstream setup. This should make into a KB sooner or later. It occurs ONLY when upgrading from SMS 2003 SP2/SP3 to ConfigMgr 2007 SP1 . Note: Upgrading from SMS 2003 SP2/SP3 to...

The just released E2k7 MP has two important bugs in it. I communicated this to the product group, and they are working on releasing a fix. Meanwhile workarounds are (thanks to Ake for quick response to this): 1. Discovery discovers E2k3 clustered backend...

I have created yet another backup script, since the previous one although correct worked only under VMM 2008. And VMM 2008 in its current BETA (+hyper-v patch) is still a bit unstable and the script caused the host to hang for large VM backups. The...

While working on internal Hyper-V documentation I wrote over 200 pages of content (mostly technical). I got some reviews by Rob Dendtler (thx Rob!), and the most interesting things I learned from him were not technical, but tips regarding writing style...

Lately it's been very quiet on my blog. There are a couple of things to that. First and foremost there was recently a lot going on in my private life, and therefore I had little time to focus on anything else then family (well, I still had and HAVE to...

So a new season for mountain biking started. Actually for me it never ended, since we had a really mild 2007/2008 winter in Poland. But during the time from october 2007 till april 2008 I didn't do any racing, except one 2-day "orientation race" with...

There is a tab when you select Tools->Connect from Ops Console that is called "Registered Servers". It actually will go into your AD and query for CN=SDKServiceSCP, which is a container that stores information on your Management Groups and RMS servers...

Walter posted an interesting entry on his blog about OpgMgr 2007 qualifications and requirements: http://wchomak.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!F56EFE25599555EC!969.entry . I must say I fully agree with it and can add some additional input. 1. Responsibility...

My friend Tomek ( http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/tomek/default.aspx ) pointed me to the new tool for automatic diagram generation of SCCM and SCOM. It has just shown up on Microsoft Downloads: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=521b3884...

There is a couple of things about OpsMgr 2007 notifications, that may not be so obvious at first sight. Here is a list from my experience. 1. Notifications audit trail So you want to have a trace left about what notification was sent to whom? This...

[update!]: issue is now corrected in 6.0.6277.1 MP, thanks to Marius for quick reaction on this: http://blogs.msdn.com/mariussutara/archive/2008/03/18/update-mp-for-monitoring-cluster-services-mscs-finally-web-released.aspx . Unfortunately that MP has...

Together with my colleague Marek Kuzminski, we have slightly modified Brian's scheduled maintenance mode MP ( Scheduling Groups of Objects for Maintenance Mode ) to add following features: Override by group display name Add additional rules to...

Ever tried mass-installing a lot of agents from console? If yes, then you probably miss some feedback information. Once you close the running task window you loose the information. The information is kept, sadly enough in SUCCEEDED Task status - browsing...

[UPDATE]: I have update the MP in recovery part. It was not possible to override the recovery properly, because using a standard script response does not allow overriding the ARGUMENTS parameter of the script (actually it does allow, but it does not...

I am posting a set of console extensions that will add right click functionality similar to that in SMS 2003. It is basing on great scripts from myitforum posted by Cory ( http://www.myitforum.com/articles/8/view.asp?id=7099 ). The vbs scripts are taken...

[update]: An MP update is now available which corrects this issue http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=008f58a6-dc67-4e59-95c6-d7c7c34a1447&DisplayLang=en http://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/archive/2008/03/26/mp-refresh-active...

So you are migrating from MOM 2005 to 2007 and do not want to go through the hassle of changing your firewall ACLs? Default port for agent to Management Server communication is 5723. To modify it to MOM 2005 default (1270) or any other of your choice...

When you get to deploying SCCM, there is a couple of issues you may see. Below I summarize some of my experiences - hope this helps:) 1. For all SCCM RTM sites installed after Dec 1, 2007 you will not see any status messages This is due to a bug in date...

I am definitely not a "sales" type of guy ;) and usually know nothing about licensing, but people do ask a lot about SCCM pricing and licensing so I needed to find out. Basically this is the link you want to read: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter...

My friend Jaro (our Xbox Bike Team Director ;)) started the new website for our XBOX bike team : http://www.xbox360biketeam.pl . Currently there are only photos there, but we hope to add some content in the future, you are welcome to visit. Meanwhile...

So you have a simple case where a server operator needs to perform some maintenance and he does not have an OpsMgr console. You can use the tool provided by Clive: http://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/archive/2007/09/18/agentmm-a-command-line-tool-to...

Wake on LAN is a new feature of SCCM that was not present in SMS. You can use it to wake offline (standby/hibernate/shutdown) computers to install updates, software packages or task sequences (e.g. OS). To use WOL remember to run through some of these...

Here is a couple of resources useful for MP authoring in OpsMgr2007. Its a completely different world when compared to MOM, and ppl do keep asking about this, so here it goes: 1. Authoring Console (now in RC version) has the Authoring Guide with it (you...

DCM (Desired Configuration Manager) lets you compare you IT infrastructure configuration with standards (Compliance or Microsoft IT currently available). The compliance packs come from Brabeion (MS partnership). To read more about DCM go here: http:/...