Saturday Link Roundup–Powershell
DaleDifferences between Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7.x I considered upgrading from PowerShell 5.1 to 7 until I read about the incompatibilities. Wanting to automate SCCM Reports? – start by…
Saturday Link Roundup
Command Line Safety TricksServerFault: Command line safety tricksMusings of an Anonymous Geek: Safety Precautions When Using the ‘rm’ CommandOtherPrajwal Desai: List of SCCM Build Numbers | SCCM Version NumbersZscaler: Step-by-Step…
Semi-regular web-link clearance – July 2010
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…
Detecting broken or not installed SMS/SCCM clients.
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…
Check the health of your SMS 2003 & 2007 servers
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…
Microsoft SMS 2003 goes extended support
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…
Semi-regular web-link clearance – January 2010
Get-ComputersNearMe 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…
Lonely little SMS 2003 .PCK files
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…
Semi-regular web-link clearance (2) – November 2009
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…
Setting up your very own SCCM 2007 test box (version 2)
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…