*sigh* One step forward, five steps back. As in the words of one forum poster: BackgroundWorker is pretty much "Threading for Dummies" in that it's an excellent tool to teach…
Not in Visual Studio 2008 Express, that’s for sure. It’s a VS 2008 Professional option only, and it looks like this: You need the “Break all processes when one…
I work with some clever people, such as Mark W., who pointed out this Microsoft blog post WMI Troubleshooting Tips, which advised against deleting the WMI Repository. Rebuilding the WMI…
And I don’t know why. My strong guess is that it is related to one of the 10+ recent Microsoft security patches I’ve deployed to the fleet. (I’m looking at…
Last Tuesday I blogged about the great free scripting tools from Sapien. Well here’s another set of free tools/modules/call them what you will, from Microsoft. The Windows 7 Resource Kit…
Sapien make, what I think is the best script editor available. It’s called PrimalScript. Not cheap, but it was the only way I know to step though a PowerShell script. …
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…
I use the following piece of code in my “Check SMS Server are healthly” PowerShell scripts. I had a case recently where the SQL Server process decided to use 80%…
That’s what I thought at least. Consider this snippet of code from the Delete computers from SMS VBscript: Set objResource = GetObject( "WinMgmts:\\" & strSMSServer & _ "\root\SMS\site_" & strSMSSiteCode…
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…
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