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Sunday, May 31, 2009 7:58 AM

OpsMgr DB Grooming – How it works

A while back I wrote up a blog post on how grooming works for the OpsMgr DB and the warehouse http://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/archive/2007/12/13/scom-2007-operational-and-datawarehouse-grooming.aspx Recently I put the detailed grooming steps for the OpsMgr
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Sunday, May 24, 2009 7:40 AM

Large table query, with rowcount

Kevin has a number of very helpful queries on his blog – posted here .  One of the most commonly used is the large table query.  The large table query returns the space consumed by the table in kb, the space consumed by the index in kb and the
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Saturday, May 23, 2009 7:42 AM

OpsMgr R2 RTM!

It’s been a long time coming but OpsMgr R2 has finally released – with general availability shortly.  I spent some time today upgrading my lab environment and the process went smoothly.  As with any upgrade, be sure to review the documentation
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Monday, May 18, 2009 6:26 PM

Tool to verify AMT certificates

One of the challenges that some customers face when configuring AMT support in SCCM is certificates. There are two types of certificates needed. Provisioning certificate – This certificate is used to connect with AMT capable systems in preparation for
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Sunday, May 10, 2009 7:03 AM

Modifying SMS_DEF.MOF and Configuration.MOF to pull information from a 64-bit registry

Recently had the occasion to modify the SMS_DEF.MOF and Configuration.MOF files to pull information from a native 64-bit registry.  It’s a relatively simple process – there are even some classes, like addremove and virtual machines, that are default
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Sunday, May 10, 2009 6:36 AM

Custom MOF additions in SCCM – Simplified

I was working recently on extending the SMS_DEF.MOF and Configuration.MOF files in SCCM to pull information out of the registry.  This isn’t too difficult of a task to do manually but while looking around I came across a really sweet GUI tool that
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Friday, May 01, 2009 4:02 AM

So long MMS 2009

MMS 2009 is just about over, only a 1/2 day left as of this post.  MMS has been good this year with lots of good sessions and a chance to see old friends and meet new.  Several interesting things came out of MMS this year. OpsMgr R2 Less than
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