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Friday, June 26, 2009 5:06 PM

Unable to import WIM into SCCM console

Ran across an interesting issue today.  When trying to import an OSD WIM image into the ConfigMgr console we received an error that ‘the specified path does not contain a valid WIM file’.  Generally, this error can be linked to a corrupt install
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Sunday, June 21, 2009 10:32 PM

Monitoring for Heartbeat Failures on non-Server Agents

Monitoring for agent heartbeat failures is a built in function in OpsMgr.  Heartbeats ensure that agents running in the environment are available and that the agent is able to interact with it’s management server.  All agents, regardless of
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Friday, June 19, 2009 2:38 AM

Standard operators and subscriptions

Do you like the idea of spending several hours creating all of the notification subscriptions your opsmgr operators will ever need?  If that sounds fun to you – enjoy.  For the rest of us, opsmgr allows a standard operator the ability to create
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:55 PM

SCCM features NOT supported through IBCM

I was looking for this information recently and had a hard time locating it – probably my poor searching skills!  Nevertheless, I found it again so am posting it on my blog so I can always have it close!  The information comes from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb693755.aspx
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:32 PM

Is your RMS updating configuration too frequently?

The RMS is responsible for maintaining a master list of agent configurations for the management group.  As new information arrives from discoveries that are running on agents, that configuration becomes stale and needs to be updated.  You can
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:17 PM

Understanding ‘nested’ management pack discoveries and how they impact total discovery time?

Most management packs require discoveries be run to figure out which systems are hosting the objects we wish to monitor with the management pack. Only after the discoveries find our target objects do processes kick in to deliver appropriate monitors/rules
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 2:34 AM

Using a variable to query TOP N entries from SQL

I was recently building a SQL query for use in a report and was looking for a way to return the ''top N’ results from a table matching my query criteria.  No big deal, right?  We do this all the time with a simple statement similar to Select
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:25 AM

LocalizedText issues gone in R2?

Routine maintenance to keep the LocalizedText table trim has been a part of the OpsMgr administrators world for a while now. We have had a standardized query to clean this table that is posted on many blogs around the community – Kevin has a good article
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Attachment(s): LocalizedTextCleanup-supplemental.txt
 
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