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MOM 2005 MCF throws an exception when UpdateAlerts() is called

After calling UpdateAlerts() an exception is returned: "Value does not fall within the expected range". DBGView will show the following output: [4680] [E] 04680.01796, (cdasmomconnectorframework.cpp::2114) Could not decode unknown vartype 36 ! [4680] Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:00 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments
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SNMPVarBinds and the Alert Description Field in OpsMgr 2007

I recently had the opportunity to learn a lot about SNMPVarBind values and populating those values in the Alert description Field from a monitor and rule. A customer was having difficulty determining the proper syntax to use for this and with the help Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:49 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments
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New System Center Product Group Blog

The System Center Product Group has started a new blog that will contain some useful high level information about the System Center product line. The first post is by Brad Anderson who is "the man" when it comes to the System Center branded products. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:07 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments

Populating an Alert Description with PropertyBag data

If you are running a script via a rule, and that script returns a propertybag, then it is possible you'll want the data returned to show up in the alert description assuming an alert is generated. The syntax for this in OpsMgr 2007 isn't that straight Read More...
Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 10:53 PM by rslaten | 7 Comments
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New System Center Certifications

There will be a Live Meeting on October 24 th going over the new certifications for SCCM and SCOM. I will be adding these new certs to my list of things to do. See Trika's blog on the subject and for details on the Live Meeting. Read More...
Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 10:35 PM by rslaten | 1 Comments
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Running All Available Programs on an SMS 2003 Advanced Client

Recently a customer complained that you can't run more than one advertised program at a time on a client, but they could in SMS 2.0. Here is an example VBScript that runs all available advertised programs on a client. 'rslaten 10/10/2007 'Example of how Read More...
Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 10:22 PM by rslaten | 1 Comments
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In MOM 2005, TimeOfFirstEvent and TimeOfLastEvent are set to 12/30/1899

I recently had a customer ask me why the TimeOfFirstEvent and TimeOfLastEvent fields in an alert get set to 12/30/1899 when their custom application, which uses the MOM Connector Framework (MCF), uses UpdateAlerts() to set the resolution state of an alert. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:06 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments
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The SMS MP for SCOM 2007 does not work properly if the SMS server is not installed to C:\SMS

The SMS MP Guide actually tells you this: "To specify the location of the SMS installation folder the script uses a system environment variable on the SMS site server. The administrator must create the %SMS_INSTALL_DIR_PATH% environment variable as a Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:43 PM by rslaten | 1 Comments
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Some Applications Fail to Sequence with Error Code 53256 / Unsupported UTF format

I recently worked on an issue sequencing an application with the Softgrid 4.1 SP1 and 4.2 Sequencer. After selecting a location to download the virtual environment (after the install was completed) an error would appear "SystemGuard download failed (error Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2007 8:15 PM by rslaten | 2 Comments
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How the SMS 2003 Advanced Client Creates Delta Inventory

I have recently done some research on exactly how inventory is generated, including deltas, and have listed the information below. This information can be obtained by monitoring the inventory agent logs, verbose WMI logs, and applicable inventory WMI Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2007 8:10 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments
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How to Delete an Assignment from an SMS 2003 Advertisement

I recently worked on an issue where a customer was trying to programmatically delete a mandatory assignment from an SMS 2003 advertisement. I saw that adding an assignment is a very easy and documented task, however deleting the same assignment is not. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2007 7:20 PM by rslaten | 1 Comments
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The Mystery of the Lost Hardware Inventory

In large environments, with tens of thousands of SMS 2003 clients, inventory may get "lost" for various reasons. An example of a lost inventory is below: An SMS 2003 Advanced Client reports a full inventory upon install The client continues to report Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 18, 2007 6:37 PM by rslaten | 3 Comments
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Bit Fields and the SMS_Advertisement Class

I recently worked on an issue involving a customer attempting to create a mandatory Advert using a C# application. The advertisement worked but wasn't mandatory even though it looked to be in the SMS Admin console. There was also some confusion as to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2007 8:12 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments
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Who is this Russ Slaten guy anyway?

I was looking back over some of my older posts and realized that everything I've blogged about was technical and read more like a KB article than a blog. This is my humble attempt at adding a personal touch to this blog. I was born and raised just outside Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:32 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments
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Adding custom data to WMI, as a low rights user, and having SMS collect that data

Recently I was working on an issue which involved moving from a custom solution, which used noidmifs to insert data into SMS, to a solution where an end user inserted data directly into WMI and that data was collected by SMS. The requirements for the Read More...
Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 5:46 PM by rslaten | 2 Comments
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