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January 2008 - Posts

Issues running SMS on Windows 2003 SP1

There are a couple of known issues with Windows Server 2003 SP1 that affect SMS 2003 that were resolved in SP2 for Windows 2003 that SMS admins should know about: The first issue that is pretty well known is an issue where the SMS Services crash immediately Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 2:56 PM by davstew | 0 Comments
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SMS 2003: Removing custom discovery attributes from the database.

For custom inventory classes there is delgrp , but for custom attributes that were added to the discovery tables via DDR there isn't a tool out there. Here is a sample stored procedure that should do the trick - as always when directly editing the database Read More...
Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 3:33 PM by davstew | 0 Comments
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SMS 2003 or SCCM 2007: How can I tell when policy evaluation has finished on an Advanced client?

So you have created an application or script that requires a policy evaluation before it can continue, how can you tell that the policy evaluation request has completed? Fortunately there are events provided via WMI that can tell you when policy evalution Read More...
Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 3:04 PM by davstew | 1 Comments
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MOM 2005: How to add history to an alert using a server response with duplicate suppression enabled.

When adding history with a response in MOM 2005 if you set up the response to run after duplicate alert suppression the update to the alert is lost. This is because the alert instance is stored to the database during duplicate alert suppression and any Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:37 PM by davstew | 1 Comments
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