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Thursday, February 22, 2007 4:09 PM

DCM Solution Troubleshooting Steps

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
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 4:01 PM

DCM File System Data Source Properties

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 Path ->
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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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Friday, September 29, 2006 1:56 PM

DCMSolution Database not created during installation

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
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 11:49 PM

XMLToDCMTransfer DTS package requires 3 mandatory files for proper execution

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.exe
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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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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 10:59 AM

The Role of DTS packages in DCM Solution

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
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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
Saturday, March 18, 2006 10:06 AM

Files required to execute the Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) Engine

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.dll · Utility.DLL
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Friday, March 17, 2006 9:12 PM

Version Control of Manifests used with the Desired Configuration Monitoring Solution

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
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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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