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The WMI fix – which is better?

Back in April, I wrote two posts about fixing a broken WMI. There was some thought that deleting the WMI Repository WAS A BAD THING.

Well maybe not…

Across 600+ computers, I learnt the following:

Not deleting the WMI Repository fixed about half of the computers. In the computers which were fixed, the SMS [...]

Deleting computers from SMS 2003 (and perhaps SCCM 2007), with a script.

Below is a script which will delete a list of computers from SMS 2003. And quite possibly SCCM 2007 as well (not tested). It was originally taken from the SMS 2003 Recipe Book, modified by Paul Town, and further improved by me.

The changes I made were:

the script will read a text file of computers to be deleted, and loop though them.
ping the computer to be deleted, and if it’s “pingable”, don’t delete it.
fixed a bug with the WMI GetObject call.

strSMSServer = "WISEFAQ2003" strSMSSiteCode = ""

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

If not objFSO.FileExists("C:\computer_lists\sms_deletion.txt") Then WScript.Quit(99) End If

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SMS 2003 Server running slow, check your AV exclusions.

We had a problem with one of our SMS servers today, it was not processing DDR records.

All 19,000+ of them.

After some investigation, a co-worker found it was a corrupted DDR record which caused SMS to get stuck.

After we fixed it, SMS started processing them records at 1 DDR per [...]

"The Operating System Image file you have selected is not supported or has an invalid format"

SMS 2003 produces this error when you have decided to create a new Operating System Package.

The frustrating thing is that it may work on one PC, and not another.

The underlying cause?

Difference versions of OS Deployment Feature Pack were installed. Version 2.50.3658.1102 caused the error I was having.

The fix to the [...]

eTrust AntiVirus, and directories / processes you should exclude from scanning.

Computer Associates used to recommend excluding particular processes and directories from eTrust anti-virus scanning. This, I found, was very important with Microsoft SQL Server, as it would cause a significant performance hit.

You would do this via setting the following registry keys, under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\eTrustITM\CurrentVersion\Realtime

szExcludeProcessNames

Reason for exclusion	List of processes to be excluded, separated by “\|”
Microsoft SQL Server	sqlserver.exe sqlservr.exe
Microsoft Exchange	store.exe
Microsoft SMS 2003	SMSEXEC.EXE CCMEXEC.EXE
	and some others …

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The WMI fix – which is better?

Deleting computers from SMS 2003 (and perhaps SCCM 2007), with a script.

SMS 2003 Server running slow, check your AV exclusions.

"The Operating System Image file you have selected is not supported or has an invalid format"

eTrust AntiVirus, and directories / processes you should exclude from scanning.

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