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Saturday, January 17, 2009 8:51 PM

Bulk Resetting the Health State

This has been a common request.  Suppose you have an opsmgr environment and you have a variety of monitors working in the environment.  At the core, monitors work to tell you whether your systems are healthy or not.  Green is healthy, Yellow
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Saturday, January 17, 2009 8:35 PM

How to install SCCM patches manually on Vista/Server 2008

Prior to Windows 2008 and Vista software updates delivered through SMS/SCCM would come down in the form of .exe files and be stored in the client cache. During patch troubleshooting one option might be to attempt to run the patch directly, from the cache.
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Saturday, January 17, 2009 8:28 PM

Creating OpsMgr 2007 Groups Programmatically

I've recently given a couple of examples of how to create groups that will dynamically include the health service watcher object and also how to create groups based on my sample custom MP that will populate based on AD security group membership. 
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Monday, January 12, 2009 10:36 PM

Discovering AD Security Groups in OpsMgr 2007

A common method of identifying machines for deploying overrides, etc is to place unique registry keys on them that can be discovered by Opsmgr. While this is workable it does require introducing manual config onto individual managed systems. Folks have
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Attachment(s): ADSecurityGroupMembershipDiscovery.xml
 
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