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Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:42 AM

DCM v 2.0 Download Updated

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
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Monday, September 18, 2006 7:42 AM

Now Available: SMS 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring Version 2.0

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
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9:50 AM

New 3rd Party Offerings for DCM

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
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:18 PM

Sample DCM Manifests Available!

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
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:52 PM

Windows Server Deployment Automation Survey

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
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Monday, March 20, 2006 10:13 PM

Check if a Registry value Exists using the Desired Configuration Monitoring Solution

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
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Attachment(s): regcheck.xml
Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:22 PM

Check if a File Exists using the Desired Configuration Monitoring Solution

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
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Attachment(s): filecheck.xml
Friday, February 17, 2006 5:26 PM

Now Available - Beta Program for SMS 2003 DCM Configuration Manifests

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
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 10:28 AM

Compliance Checks for ranges using the Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) Solution

There might be several scenarios where you might want to check if a particular value lies within a range. Examples: Like a file version should be between 1.0.29.0 and 1.0.34.0 OR Antivirus version between 7.1 and 7.4 OR CPU processing power between 1GHz
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Attachment(s): range.xml
 
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