Tim Mintner

SMSUtils has a great tool to audit and report on your BITS 2.0 settings for your SMS 2003 Advanced Clients. You can download the tool from here: http://www.smsutils.com/CommunityDownloads/tabid/58/Default.aspx Here is some background information that Read More...

In special situations or if you have large amounts of bandwidth between sites, you can change the replication frequency between sites to match the replication between servers in the same site. The steps below show how to enable this. Keep in mind however, Read More...

The past couple of days I have had a really frustrating time trying to install SQL 2000 in a clustered environment. We finally got it working. It turns out that there is a rare bug during SQL setup where setup won't accept a product key. This ended up Read More...

A couple of weeks ago I was flying back to St. Louis and I was sitting next to a 10 year old boy flying back to visit his father for the weekend. He was pretty shy at first but we got to talking about computers after I pulled out my Tablet PC and let Read More...

Brian Tucker over at the Blogcastrepository has posted a great introduction video to SMS V4. If you are curious about the new features such as drag and drop and the new management console, this is a must see video. Check it out here: http://blogcastrepository.com/blogcasts/37/sms/entry864.asp Read More...

If you are a SMS or MOM administrator you live and die based on the availability of WMI. Unfortunately if WMI is not working often you don't realize it until you really need the information. Technet has posted a great tool called the WMI Diagnosis Utility. Read More...

I went out to the scripting center tonight on Technet and noticed that they now have a RSS feed for all of the scripts! That is awesome! In fact, almost everything on Technet now has a RSS feed. Here is the URL for the scripting feed: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/whatsnew.xml Read More...