One of the "fun" tasks when working with clients is when we need to open the various ports on a client’s network for Configuration Manager to work properly. I’ve had to sit down with many clients and go through the TechNet port diagram countless times, to only have to do it again a few months…
Currently I’m on a packaging project moving SCCM packages from one SCCM environment to another. One of the packages on the list was the OpsMgr console. Packaging the OpsMgr console really is no big deal, you simply run the following commands for install and uninstall: Install Msiexec.exe /I “%~DP0MOM.msi” /qb-! /l*v c:\install\mom_console.log ADDLOCAL=MOMUI ROOT_MANAGMENT_SERVER_DNS=<FQDN…
I have been working on my presentation for the www.CloudFest.org Denver and Dallas presentations. The title of my presentation is "Office 365, Value for the Enterprise". I am trying to explain Office 365, and the financial and administrative benefits for an Enterprise class client (> 50 users) move to Office 365. Currently I have…
A quick hitter on applying SCOM 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 5 to the Eval version of Systems Center Operations Manager 2007, R2. I was at a client site doing a SCOM Proof of concept; they had an existing installation, however they wanted to start from scratch. No problem, away we go. When it came time…
Trevor Sullivan has created a nice post on checking the size of your Task Sequence’s. This is useful, since there is a 4mb limit to your TS. If you have too many steps, you can run into this issue. Read the full post here.
*Correction, MY first, Cameron’s second System Center enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting the release of all the new 2012 versions of the technologies that live within the System Center stack; one of the most anticipated is Operations Manager 2012. Since Microsoft has yet to release the bits for OpsMgr 2012 to be used…
Up until recently in environment where the client has a highly available Exchange server environment I used to agree to using a single SMTP relay when defining an OpsMgr channel for notification. My thought process was that as long as the Exchange server was highly available that would cover it so there would be no…
I received a good question from a colleague of mine in Atlanta recently (shout-out to the Atlanta user group!). Here’s the question: “Can you have both explicit and dynamic members in a group? Simple question but no one seems to address it.” Just to keep this extra-interesting I tried this in OpsMgr 2012. First I…
I just received notice that SystemCenterUniverse in Austin has officially sold out of tickets! That’s incredible news that I’m really happy to be able to say it but the even better news is this. We still have room in our simulcast locations and if you have a user community that you want to get involved…
First off, SafeControls are a great feature of SharePoint, they allow for protection against malicious code being able to run on pages within your SharePoint environment. However, on the flipside they can cause some heartburn and lost hours when trying to find out why things aren’t working as expected. This came up in a recent…
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