Support Center OneTrace - starting in version 1906, OneTrace is a new log viewer with Support Center. It works similarly to CMTrace, with the following improvements: A tabbed view Dockable…
(For future reference, just leaving this copy of Kenneth Lund-Petersen's article here) If you ever need to track a software deployment on a client, you’ll have a bunch of log-files…
Found this while I was looking an answer: New add-in inventory report for Configuration Manager While it does say all Office add-ins, it will still be useful for extracting Outlook…
The pilot of the SMS Client Health Startup Script has gone reasonably well. So far the script has found about 30 broken PCs. But the logging has been a bit…
We have a VBscript job that SMS 2003 runs weekly on all our client computers. Amongst other things, it sets the Permission Required flag for SMS Remote Control. In other…
These are the following minimum steps you need to follow: Pre-install tasks (preflight) Verify SMS 2003 SP3 requirements (SQL & Windows Server OS versions/SP) Using the SMS Deployment Readiness Wizard:…
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…
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…
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+…
I don’t do this often enough to remember it, so here’s a quick guide for me (and anyone else out there still using SMS 2003). Start the Administrator Console, and…
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