The issue you might experience when using MOM SRP on a Windows Server with regional settings different then US (I had the problem on polish locale). The problem is in the reports and the way they handle dates. The error is: An error has occurred...

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...

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...

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'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...

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...

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...

OM 2007 has a different design of reporting then MOM 2005 does. It transfers data in real-time as opposed to the nightly DTS job in 2005. In Beta 2 there is a small bug that will be corrected in RC: if your Datawarehouse account is different than the...

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...

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:/...

MOM 2005 agent runs it’s scripts in an out-of-service (MOMService.exe) process called MOMHost.exe. When you are running McAfee 8.0i AV agent, there appears to be a problem. The ScriptProxy.dll component of the McAfee agent causes a slow memory hog in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

[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...

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...

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...

Here it is. MOM2007 beta2 is out along with documentation. This will be the first time for me to install it and check the new features (except MMS labs). I will try to post some more definite impressions when I get to do some more serious tests. You...

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...

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...

People have been often asking about supportability of different MOM components on x64 architecture. There is a lot of info on the web, but it’s a bit unsorted: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=917615 , http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/mom...

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...

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...

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...