This post will touch a few basic details on the components present in VMM SSP 2.0. If you have further questions, please post a comment and I can go in more deeper. VMM SSP 2.0 primarily has two components: · Web Component · Server...

Sometimes you might observe an error while you are trying to peform certain operations in the website that attempt to communicate with the server component. The error will look similar to the one below: What this means is that the VMM SSP 2.0...

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The SharePoint Asset Inventory Tool has been discontinued. The Solution Accelerator team makes guidance and tools in the whitespace between products. Sometimes we are asked to move over, as a product team expands their capabilities into space once occupied...

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Known Issues with Microsoft Deployment RC1 – October 25, 2007 The development team has isolated three known issues in the initial Microsoft Deployment RC1 build and created a documented workaround to continue testing. An error will occur when running...

Microsoft Deployment is available as an open beta download. Join the Microsoft Deployment Connection program on Microsoft Connect . If you are already registered for the program, click here . If you have not previously registered with...

Hello folks, Now, with DCM done, I have moved on to the Deployment team that released BDD 2007 in the recent past. I know you are no stranger when it comes to Client and Server deployment. So you will find me writing on Deployment 4 Solution Accelerator...

Here are some troubleshooting steps that you might want to perform for a successful DCM deployment / execution: 1. Install DCM Solution and ensure that all the files were deployed and the DCM Solution database created. 1. Create an SMS package / program...

Hello, I have got several requests regarding the File System data source properties and what they mean. Hence I decided to post the info in here... Here you go... File System Data Source Properties: Name -> name for the data source Absolute...

Overview Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) 2.0 now supports configuration monitoring of desktops and servers. The accelerator allows the user to define desired hardware, operating system, and application...

There was a known issue in Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) Solution Accelerator v 1.0 where the DCMSolution database was not created during installation in specific cases. The issue occurred because the v 1.0 installer retrieved SQL information...

In DCM v 2.0, the functionality of the XMLToDCMTransfer DTS package has been altered. In the current version (v 2.0), the DTS package requires the following three files to be present in the DCM UI folder for successful execution: DCM.xsd DCMXMLValidator...

DCM v2.0 automates the configuration management audits between desired or defined configuration settings and actual configuration settings. DCM accomplishes this by allowing the user to define desired hardware, operating system and application configuration...

Alpha Tech Solutions has recently released training for SMS 2003 DCM and they also offer an automatic rule generator to help create configuration manifests. I have not yet used or tested the rule generator tool, but I have seen the training and it combines...

Visit http://connect.microsoft.com to register for the DCM Configuration Manifest Beta program ! This program has been established to test and validate sample configuration files for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004, Microsoft...

The Solutions for Infrastructure and Management team in the Core Infrastructure Solutions group wants to better understand customer needs around installation and configuration for Longhorn server deployment. We would appreciate it if you would complete...

The Desired Configuration Monitoring Solution Accelerator (DCM Solution) comes with two DTS Packages: SMSToDCMTransfer and XMLToDCMTransfer . The reports are rendered based on data available in the DCMSolution database. The two DTS Packages transfer data...

While executing the DCM Command line wrapper (also called the DCM Engine) on a server, you might come across the error: “ Unable to locate dll - Dynamic link library file mscoree.dll could not be found in the specified path. ”. This is an error...

The Desired Configuration Monitoring Solution (DCM Solution) ignores any rules under a Setting if the Setting does not exist. Let us take the case where you are trying to figure out the data of a registry value and do a compliance check on the same. If...

You might run into a Management Exception while executing the DCM Command Line Wrapper (also called the DCM Engine). It’s a general practice to copy the bits of the DCM Engine to another machine in order to execute the engine on the other machine. In...

The DCM Engine (also called the DCM Command Line Wrapper), DCMCmd.exe, requires the following supporting files for its execution: · BPA.Common.dll · BPA.ConfigCollector.dll · BPA.NetworkCollector.dll · BPA.UserInterface.DLL · DCMIssueProcessor...

It has become a common concern about how to maintain different versions of manifests used with the Desired Configuration Monitoring Solution (DCM Solution). The current version of the DCM Solution does not provide a way to store version numbers within...

The Desired Configuration Monitoring Solution (DCM Solution) ignores any rules under a Setting if the Setting does not exist. Let us take the case where you are trying to figure out the version of a file and do a compliance check on the same. If the file...

Visit http://connect.microsoft.com to register for the DCM Configuration Manifest Beta program ! This program has been established to test and validate sample configuration files for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004, Microsoft...