Rodney Jackson's Manageability Blog- Configuration Manager 2007/2012

Hi All, For those who have attended my sessions at MMS over the years I appreciate your support. Thank you very much. I will be combining two topics this year, so please register early. Depending on space and the number of people who register early they...

I would like to personally thank everyone who attended, participated and showed me support for my session this year. I always consider it a privilege to present and meet so many wonderful people. I am making this post to add a few updates and clarifications...

This post is for the attendees of the Microsoft Management Summit 2010 in Las Vegas who attended my session, “BA21 - PFE Case Studies – PFE Configuration Manager Support Cases From the Trenches”. I am posting the SAMPLE ONLY SCRIPT from the session...

Recently I was asked about the default permissions for IIS 7.0 and 7.5 so I start doing some digging and testing.  You might ask why is this important? Well if someone changes the permissions or a policy is applied to your server it will be extremely...

If you have already deployed SCCM 2007 SP1 here are a few fixes by category that might help you determine which ones are critical in your environment. Hope this helps. Hotfix List - Post SP1 Feature /Component Affected KB 970242 - Some attributes of a...

Problem:   SCCM 2007 SP1 Client Installation Fails W/ WEBDAV Error in the ccmsetup.log when connecting to Windows 2008 Server Failed to successfully complete HTTP request. (StatusCode at WinHttpQueryHeaders: 405) ccmsetup 1/28/2008   Action...

Attention SCCM Community! MMS 2009 is approaching and I have the great task of presenting a session titled, “SCCM 2007 Case Studies” again for the 4 th year in a row. I understand the value of community input so I would like to get involvement...

This blog will focus on a common problem that many customers have experienced over the past year related to inventory. If you have ever had to trouble figuring out why software inventory was reporting and not hardware inventory then I recommend you review...

I introduced a new tool at MMS 2007 during my session called TRSCLEAN to reduce the size of large TRS files created by the issue outline in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article titled, “You experience a performance problem in Replication Manager of System...

This post is a follow up from MMS 2007. After arriving back in Charlotte, NC and adjusting to the time zone change I started catching up on emails. To my surprise I recieve several emails around this topic. I have included additional information to review here as well as the tools I discussed during the session. This information is intended to help you address any possible issues you might be experiencing or encounter around this topic. PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THESE TOOLS ARE NOT SUPPORTED BY MICROSOFT BUT WORK OUT THE BOX. ...