SMS Client Health Startup Scripts, and multiple domain maintenance.
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…
SMS Client Health Startup Script, and logging
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…
Resetting the Permission Required flag for SMS Remote Control.
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…
So you want to upgrade your SMS 2003 Server to SP3
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…
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,…
SMS Client Health Startup Script and Cross Domain logons.
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…
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…
Adding computers directly to SMS collections
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).…
WMI has stopped working on some remote computers.
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…
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…