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SCCM 64 bit considerations [updated]
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System Center Configuration Manager 2007 does not ship with any server roles based on x64. So what is the consideration on running that software on x64 architecture? Sccm2007 runs basically the same (performance wise) on 32 bit OS or 64 bit OS, and even...
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OpsMgr 2007 SP1 RC Console crashes on x64 [updated]
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When you try to open the Distributed Application Designer from a console installed on an x64 server you may see the console crashes with .NET error in the Application Log (something of type badimageformat). This seems to be a bug in SP1 RC. To work around...
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Team Foundation Server goodies [updated]
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Here's a couple of interesting links around TFS that are really worth sharing: Sizing Guide for TFS 2008: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/10/18/tfs-2008-system-recommendations.aspx and 2005: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2006/01/04/509314...
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Microsoft Deployment (formerly known as BDD) goes RTM [updated]
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Business Desktop Deployment Solution accelerator is now called officially MD (Microsoft Deployment). RC1 RTM was just released. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3bd8561f-77ac-4400-a0c1-fe871c461a89&displaylang=en&tm Read...
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System Center Certifications
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I watched (well with one eye to tell you the truth, working with the other;)) the webcast on new SC certifications. Thought I would share the interesting part (availability exams and dates): WS2008 update will also be shown in a LM: December 5 live meeting...
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Back from holidays
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Hi 2 everyone (if anyone is still reading some of the stuff here after such a looooooong pause in writing)! I am back from my months' worth of holiday. And before that I've been very busy with releasing a project for a customer. Now I seem to have a bit...
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SMS 2003 with SP3 my subjective "top 5 deployment issues" [updated!]
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Doing recently a pretty distributed (over 100 sites) SMS deployment I stumbled upon several issues. some of them might be FAQs but others were quiet a surprise. Here is my top 5 list;) Hope you can spare yourself time looking for solutions, or help me...
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Automating SMS 2003 Secondary Site installations
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I've been a bit quiet lately on my blog. I regret it, but I hope to come back with some good content in the following weeks. What I found out with SMS 2003 production deployments is that especially with very dispersed network structures, you might...
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How to use custom actions in Visual Studio setup project (MSI) from command line
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I'm lately back to development project work. A useful thing I found out during deployment project development. If you want to pass custom properties to your MSI files VIA COMMAND LINE this is how it is done (one caveat here): Add in the installer UI a...
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Quick impressions from MMS '07
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This years' MMS is quite interesting with many new products in System Center family and other products around manageability/operations. Several quick impressions: The partner space in Expo booth is getting every year bigger and bigger. This only proves...
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TFS/MSBuild caveats
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Once again I am a bit off track from MOM. I've been digging more into Team Foundation Server lately. Unfortunately I've been negatively surprised how many obvious things just do not work as expected out of the box. Fortunately with many overrides, working...
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Microsoft Management Summit 2007, San Diego, US
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The MMS conference is getting near: www.mms2007.com . There will be lots of Microsoft and Partner technologies for operations and mangement: System Center Family (Ops Manager, Configuration Manager, SCVMM, SCE, Service Desk, DPM, SCCP...), SMS 2003 (SP3...
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MOM 2005 - removing old agents from Database
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If you have some agents that you definitely removed from your management group by MOM admin console, manually or through the ResKit tool "Cleanup MOM" AND they still re-appear in the MOM console, then try this script: http://www.huntland.co.uk/Downloads...
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Recording browser session in Ops Manager 2007 RC2
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After you install Ops Manager 2007 RC2 you might experience an issue with recording a browser session through IE (for HTTP/HTTPS monitoring). The buttons are just grayed out: This is an issue with some time zone settings (east of GMT) in RC2. Set them...
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Ops Manager 2007 RC2 - modifying the default port number for agent communication
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When deploying OM 2007 you might want to use the same port as the good, old MOM 2005 (1270) instead of the default OM 2007 (5723). To do that you need to modify this regkey on your OM server: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations...
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Ops Mgr 2007 RC2 reporting installation tips
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Several tips for installation of OM 2007 RC2 (reporting component) 1. Install always on EN-US regional settings (change this at least for installation time) 2. Set the collation of SQL to SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS (I've tested this and it works) or...
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Ops Mgr 2007 RC2 Web Console install from Command Line
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This is undocumented in the RC2 documentation pack, but might come in useful. Especially if you hit this issue I had seen: After installing all components of OM2007 RC2 EXCEPT the webconsole I wanted to add the web console. I fired up the installation...
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Ops Manager 2007 RC2 Exchange 2003 MP mailflow issue
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When you set up mailflow receiver and sender on one, same server you might notice following issue: After the discovery of MailFlow sender and receiver monitors, they start up at about the same time, and the receiver script will at first report a missing...
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Ops Manager 2007 RC2 first impressions
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I am preparing a pilot deployment of OM 2007 RC2. There are a couple of first impressions I wanted to share with you: 1. This release has better performance then previous ones (RC1 and especially BETA2) - this is mainly perfromance of the backend components...
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Extending SMS Hardware Inventory
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Doing a demo, I came upon a task to extend the built-in hardware inventory of SMS 2003. I was using SMS 2003 SP2. The two tasks were: collect information about extended physical hardware - e.g. banks of physical memory collect information about asset...
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SQL MP 09.0.2047.0000 Reports fail
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You may have noticed that when you import the latest SQL MP (09.0.2047.0000) Reports .XML file from MS downloads page to your MOM reporting server, the reports when executed might fail with: "The report server cannot process the report. The data source...
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Support for MOM 2005 databases on different OS and SQL architectures
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Looks like I’m back to Operations Manager (at least for some time;)) Here is a post that will hopefully answer your questions regarding different combinations of OS/SQL architectures and their supportability for MOM 2005 SP1 databases. There is always...
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Using Visual Studio Team System for Testers for automating web application tests
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I was recently using VSTS for testers edition which has some nice feature for testing web applications: composing individual tests by recording IE sessions, composing load tests, and structuring your test case scenarios in an automated manner. This allows...
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“Fuzzy logic” search in SQL Server
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I was looking hard for a good, robust, yet possibly simple and fast to implement method of “fuzzy” logic search for an application based on SQL Server 2005. “Fuzzy” meaning that a search would return not only exact (or wildcard) matches but also phonetically...
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Technet Magazine – September issue, MRAS re-release info
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I am sorry to disappoint my readers (if any, after such a long period of inactivity;)) with my low input to the blog lately. Check out the September issue of technetmag: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2006/09/default.aspx . It has...
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