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I was asked a few days ago if ConfigMgr or SMS could inventory mapped drives, and while the answer is yes we don't do it by default. In effect we report the logical disk but not mapped drives. In order to inventory mapped drives we first need to extend
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Just an FYI that we recently released a new Infrastructure Planning and Design guide for Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 for R2. So what's an Infrastructure Planning and Design guide? Glad you asked. Here's the official description: The
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Ever wonder what's needed to setup and configure an RMS on a Win2K8 cluster? If so then check out the doc that Arnab Mitra was kind enough to put together for us: ======== How to Configure/Setup RMS on a Windows 2008 Cluster. 1. On each RMS cluster
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The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has been working on a new guide - Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 with R2 . This guide targets key information to bring your infrastructure up to date, thereby enhancing user experience
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There may be times when you want to monitor an agent computer that resides in a domain which is not trusted by the domain where the RMS or MS server resides. You may also not want to use the Gateway Server option because you only have one or two
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The day may come when you find that you need to move the package share (SMSPKGC$) to a different drive - say from the C: drive to the D: drive, and you don't want to have to recreate any existing packages or advertisements. Should that day come,
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As I was making my normal Wednesday morning rounds I discovered that the OpsManager product team has a new post on their excellent Infrastructure Planning Guide for OpsMgr 2007 Service Pack 1. Whether you're designing a new rollout or evaluating
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I've been getting a few questions lately about slow performance with the console so I thought a post might be in order. Luckily for me, Tim Helton, one of our top Support Escalation Engineers, had already written some great tips that he uses to
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The IPD Team just sent out an announcement concerning the IPD beta and how it now covers VMM 2008, OpsMgr 2007 and IIS 7. Some of you probably already get this but just in case you don't I included it below: ======== We are pleased to announce that
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Have you ever downloaded an OpsMgr 2007 Management Pack but had trouble figuring out what's new, what's changed or even how to use it? If so then what you'll want to do is check out the MP's corresponding Management Pack Guide. Out on our
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I have had few cases recently where my customer has reinstalled their SMS sites but prior to doing so they failed to remove all the traces from the DB and Register etc. This can cause a lot of issues with the Hierarchy later so to make this process easier
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Overview Everyone should be aware by now that Windows PowerShell is the latest scripting environment for managing and maintaining Windows servers, workstations and applications. This cube note provides a brief introduction to PowerShell resources and
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A question I get asked every now and then that doesn't seem to be particularly well documented is whether SMS 2003 supports renaming of the domain or domain migration. While technically two different things, the short answer is no, we do not support
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We recently released the very cool System Center Operations Manager 2007 SCW Roles and Security Hardening Guide for Windows Server 2003 and a brief description and download link is below. Check it out: ======== Brief Description: The Operations
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We have a couple updates to the old tried and true docs you might be interested in. The updated docs and what's new or added are below: ======== Security Guide (April Update) - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d826b836-59e5-4628-939e-2b852ed79859&DisplayLang=en
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