Suggested reading from the Microsoft Directory Services team. Lots of good entry level reading here to help you brush up your Active Directory skills.
Troubleshooting, Known Issues and General Resources When you’re troubleshooting a problem with Systems Management Server or Configuration Manager 2007, chances are you’re not the first person to encounter your [...]
You take all your computer accounts in Active Directory, filter out the old records (I use a cut-off of 30 days), and then compare it to your SMS or SCCM database. (I showed you how to export the LastLogin date from Active Directory here).
An aside: I love Active Directory, as you can use [...]
I run a PowerShell script which checks the health of my 20 SMS 2003 servers.
Sure, I could install Microsoft Operations Manager (Microsoft MOM). But there is the cost for the physical server, and Microsoft licensing to be considered.
So, instead I make do with the PowerShell script. It’s saved me from having several [...]
SMS 2003 going extended support is not a real surprise. It’s replacement, Microsoft SCCM 2007, has been out in the market place since November 2007.
It isn’t that big a problem for the IT Shop I work in. Our SMS 2003 infrastructure is mature, and we’re running stable client operating systems.
And as I [...]
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Today I learned a little bit about how to get to some of the data stored within special shell folders. You can get a list of all of the easy-to-get-to special folders here. I noticed one folder in particular that a bunch of systems administrators I know want to read, and that’s the [...]
The call came in:
Noddy22 has less than 5% disk space left.
Our Microsoft SMS 2003 servers are getting a bit tired, and we really don’t want to replace them just now. There is a SCCM 2007 upgrade project on the horizon. Or so it’s claimed.
Not many people have seen a Yeti either.
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File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0
New builds of Microsoft Windows are produced almost every day for internal development and testing. In order to detect performance regressions as soon as possible, those builds have to be evaluated and compared to their predecessors as well as previous public releases. A range of performance tests are [...]
Note: this is a work in progress.
This has been a bit of trial and error, but to setup a standalone Active Directory Forest/Domain and SCCM 2007 Primary Server, on the one box, I did the following.
Installed Windows Server 2008 Standard with SP2
Added the following roles
Active Directory Domain Services [...]
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