The downside of multiple domains, is that I have to maintain multiple scripts for SMS Client Health Check. Until today. I used the sThisDomain variable I created for the Check_Domain…
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…
I’m in the process of piloting the DudeWorks/1E/Shaun Cassells SMS SCCM Client Health script. I’ve set it up so it runs in the user’s logon script. But there’s a bug…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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