Questions often come on the forums about Heartbeat Discovery including how often should they be configured to run or indirectly, what updates certain resource information in ConfigMgr like the IP Address. The answer to the first question depends on what you are going to use the data for that is contained in a Heartbeat…
Using Outlook 2007, an employee was trying to save an attachment to a SharePoint 2007 Document Workspace. But they received the following error message: "Shared attachments are not available for this location. You may not have permission to access this location, it may not be a trusted site, or it may be unavailable." After doing…
Today I passed my 22nd Microsoft exam since I took my first one on June 10, 1999. I think I’m going to take a break now. 681 TS: Windows 7 and Office 2010, Deploying April 29, 2011 401 TS: Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager, Configuring March 30, 2011 693 PRO: Windows Server 2008 R2,…
Those of us who watch movies are all familiar with the story from Field of Dreams (the second best Costner baseball movie). In this movie he builds a baseball diamond in a corn field when he hears the whispered comment “If you build they will come”. He does and they do. But does this…
In the Savision Live Maps Authoring utility you can highlight a single (or multiple items as shown below) and move them by using the arrow keys. But a single arrow to the left is often a larger move than needed as shown below: Instead of zooming in for smaller/more detailed levels of moving, use…
There are instances were you may want to install updates during a ConfigMgr Task Sequence without using Software Updates in ConfigMgr. Maybe you don’t have it implemented yet, or maybe you are still using WSUS for updates. I’ve seen it asked many times if there is a way to pull updates from WSUS during…
Our friend The Deployment Bunny has a fantastic post up over on his blog about modifying the default MDT wizard. He’s got some great examples of how to modify the wizard using the Wizard Editor. Be sure to read his entire post here. When I was working for a customer a while ago, they asked…
Nick Moseley has a nice post on some typical XP customizations that are done to your reference XP Image. He has some examples of system settings, user settings, and some unattend.txt settings as well. Read his full post here.
On a NOC view it is preferable to have a specific Live Map display instead of the full Live Maps Web Console. To determine the specific URL to display open the Savision Web Console (servername:52909 by default) and browse to the Live Map that you want to locate the URL for. Click on the globe…
Kevin Holman provides a great article on how to upgrade OpsMgr to CU4 which is available at: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/02/01/opsmgr-2007-r2-cu4-rollup-hotfix-ships-and-my-experience-installing-it.aspx One item that his article does not cover however is details about how to upgrade agents which were manually installed. Manually installed agents will not appear in the pending view after CU4 has been deployed, and require…
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