SMS Advanced Client push installation consists of three main phases. Loosely, these consist of: Pre-installation phase - The SMS Client Configuration Manager connects to the target client and verifies he client's operating system and client information...

Today I’d like to bring you attention to three recently released Knowledge Base articles which address some common issues SMS support has seen as of late. The first involves the Patchinstall.exe program and how it may be successfully invoked. This...

A common issue PSS has seen for SMS 2003 is a failure of one or more Servers to connect and authenticate to the SQL Server and Database. There are varied causes for this problem not limited to the following common sources as detailed in KB 832109...

The latest DHCP Management Pack release (version 05.0.3500.0000, released 10/27) for MOM 2005 SP1 has an issue when imported on a management server where no previous version of the MP exists. When one of the State alerts ('The DHCP Scope is running...

On November 2 nd the pending ITMU Update noted in KB 926464 was released to the web. This is critical update for our SMS customers for many reasons and it is highly recommended that our customers migrate to this new version as soon as possible. The update...

MS04-025 is an older security fix which has been superseded by MS06-013, but the scan tools may still detect MS04-025 as missing after MS06-013 has been applied. The Security team will be pulling the MS04-025 update from November 14th release of WSUSSCAN...

This blog has seen a fair amount of activity regarding the ITMU/CPU scan issue recently surfaced for SMS 2003 which caused CPU stalls and performance issues. Two distinct issues have been confused into what has often been viewed as a single problem and...

Per my previous post the regarding the withdrawal of the Windows Server Base OS MP. If you have installed the MP, and are experiencing issues with the MOM service failing to start at boot I can offer the following workaround other than having to reinstall...

The Base Operating System Management Pack (05.0.3500.0000) released to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e553062f-bd85-4772-8037-8b91f457b710&DisplayLang=en a few weeks ago has been temporarily withdrawn due to technical issues...

(The original blog on this topic is here ) Recently KB 924148 has been updated with relevant information regarding this problem. The guidance provided by this KB is current and should address the issues associated with CPU performance consuming...

If you’ve been seeking a great resource for creating SMS 2003 Reports and need some guidance on using the SQL Views to do so please check out this new Guide: Using SMS 2003 SQL Views to Create Custom Reports: Download it here ! This contains information...

The Availability Reporting Management Pack (version 05.0.5000.0000) has been released to the download site http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8a61d369-b785-4550-bde8-84e734ec5e40&DisplayLang=en on schedule. For background...

The product teams continue to work diligently on this issue. They are getting close to root cause on this problem and more information will be coming soon. In the short term, there is a new release of the wsusscan.cab file which has proven to help...

As we near a re-release of the Availability Reporting MP for MOM, I wanted to take this opportunity to discuss some of the fixes that have taken place, and unfortunately some that will not be addressed in this version. We are on currently on schedule...

I’d like to share information regarding how SMS 2003 Management Points leverage IIS. Lately Product Support has seen an increasing number of issues with IIS account entanglements at the root of the problem. Unfortunately it is beyond this blog to...

Good Day, Everyone. For today's post, we wanted to review our top call generators and areas of high customer pain in the MOM space. The data we will be using is the final Q4 case data (April-June). During this time period, our top 3 areas were Reporting...

Systems Management Server 2003 client computers experience slow performance when you run the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates (ITMU) http://support.microsoft.com/?id=924148 SYMPTOMS Microsoft is aware through recent customer feedback...

<< 9-27-2006 - An updated post for this topic is now available here >> There is a current issue some customers are seeing whereby when the "SMS Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates" (ITMU) is run to either scan for or deploy security...

An issue that can occur with the Onepoint database is that the database begins to grow rapidly for no apparent reason, and may suffer a performance hit or stop functioning when the disk is near-full. This can occur for several reasons: 1. You just...

The MOM Remote Prerequisite Checker tool (MOMNetChk.exe) is pretty cool for checking the MOM agent to make sure the required ports and services are available. It even runs a ping test. You can use the MOM Remote Prerequisite Checker (MOMNetChk.exe...

Good Day! When running what ends up as being a very large report or data set using SMS 2003 Reporting, it may seem as if there are limitations as to the amount of rows or data being returned. This is often described as there being only a partial...

Here is a common issue we see regularly with the Exchange Management Pack ... You have just applied Security updates for your Exchange server. The update installation went fine. The next morning, your MOM Administrator sees Mail Flow Sender alerts...

My name is Brent Dunsire and I am Supportability Program Manager here at Microsoft working on Systems Management Server. In the spirit of this Blog I hope to bring you awareness, and solutions, to commonly seen issues with SMS 2003. I’d like to start...

In Manageability, one of our top issues and areas of customer pain in the SMS space is around the incorrect scan tool being used with software updates. This is a big call generator and our highest area of critical situations (CritSits) with Premier customers...

Issues with MOM 2005 used with SQL 2005 reporting services. When you try to import a Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 report file by using the Import/Export Management Pack option or the RptUtil.exe utility, the import process fails. http:/...