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myITforum Site Move

Posted Wednesday, November 30, 2005 9:53 AM by tmintner
The web site http://www.myitforum.com is in process of moving their site and is currently not available by DNS name. If you would like to access the site you can access it directly by IP address until they get all of the bugs worked out: http://209.34.241.244/ Read More...
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Update software packages with RSS

Posted Friday, November 25, 2005 3:26 PM by tmintner
Have you seen the WIX toolkit yet? WIX is an open source Microsoft project that allows you to create MSI packages using XML. Apparently this is how most of MS creates packages internally. There is a really good blog that explains many of the features Read More...
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New Pricing Model with Virtual Server 2005 R2

Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 2:24 PM by tmintner
In response to our valued customers who are excited about the prospects of virtualizing workloads, we are doing even more to reduce the barriers to adopting Microsoft Virtual Server. The new pricing takes effect December 1 st , 2005. Please feel free Read More...
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Microsoft releases Desired Configuration Monitoring for SMS 2003

Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 2:21 PM by tmintner
Microsoft has quietly released a very nice add on product for SMS 2003 called Desired Configuration Monitoring. This will let you establish a baseline platform and then verify that your systems meet that baseline. This is an awesome addition to SMS that Read More...
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Installing MOM Reporting where SQL Reporting is on a Separate Server

Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 2:05 PM by tmintner
If you have a large MOM environment, you might want to have the SQL Reporting server separate from your MOM Reporting and the Reporting Database. In order to do this you must install MOM Reporting on the same server as the Reporting database. However, Read More...
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Remove a Management Group from a Multi-Homed MOM 2005 Agent

Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2005 4:37 PM by tmintner
If you have changed your MOM configuration and need to remove a Management Group from an agent that is multi-homed, you can run the following command line from your agent computer: msiexec /i "\\server\share\momagent.msi <file:///\\server\share\momagent.msi>" Read More...
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Use MOM for SOX compliance

Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:01 AM by tmintner
So you need to start keeping track of all of your audit policies for Sarbanes-Oxley or HIPAA and you have already made an investment in MOM then you shouldn't have to invest in another system just to give you that data. Manakoa Systems just might have Read More...
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Script to Alert on Active Number of MOM Operator Consoles

Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2005 10:58 AM by tmintner
MOM 2005 has a support limit of 15 active MOM Operator Consoles, however there is no built in way to detect and/or alert on the number of consoles that are in use. I have written a little script that does just that. It is not the prettiest script in the Read More...
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Append to the Local Administrators Group via GPO

Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2005 10:57 AM by tmintner
Previously when you used a GPO to restrict members of the Administrators group using Restricted Groups, the GPO would wipe out all entries and replace it with what you had in your GPO. This made adding an individual person to the local Administrator's Read More...
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Welcome

Posted Tuesday, November 22, 2005 10:49 AM by tmintner
Welcome to my new blog! This blog is really an experiment to see if the Technet blogs generate more traffic than the myITforum blogs . I currently have a blog already at myITforum ( http://myitforum.techtarget.com/blog/tmintner ) but now that I am a Microsoft Read More...
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