During recent CU4 upgrades we wanted to validate connectivity to the systems during the agent installation process. This is really useful especially when looking for potential reboots (as discussed here) which may occur during CU4 deployments. I ran across the following tool (NirSoft PingInfoView) which was quick to download and worked well for this purpose!…
At MMS 2009 I started my presentation early because both the audience and myself were completely bored waiting for the official time to start the presentation. As a result I decided to change things up at MMS 2011 and introduce the concept of a PreShow presentation. Borrowing (ok, stealing) from the motion picture industry I…
The Exchange Team pulled the initial release of Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2010 SP1 very soon after its release. Today they have rereleased Update Rollup 3. Update Rollup 3 can be downloaded HERE. This will bring your Exchange version to 14.1.289.007. For a description of the update and all of the included fixes, see…
Are you looking for a quick way to find out what computers in your environment have the Operations Manager console for upgrades or Cumulative Update deployment? If you have Configuration Manager this query will show what systems have the executable for the Operations Manager console. (I’ve included two versions – the first which was the…
So what exactly do each of these options do in an advertisement? The TechNet documentation is actually pretty sketchy and thus this post (inspired by MVP extraordinaire, Torsten Meringer). Note that everything below is specific to mandatory advertisements; i.e., those with a schedule. If the advertisement is not mandatory or is executed manually, the…
Workflows demand that your task list be based directly off of the Tasks content type. To trigger this message, I created a content type called “Review Tasks” that inherited from the “Tasks” content type and then based my task list on “Review Tasks”: Instead of recreating my list definition, I tried simply modified the schema.xml…
We’re finishing up a couple of deployments of Project Server 2010 wherein we did a number of custom workflows for the clients, and I thought I’d pass along some lessons we learned, some the hard way. First, a bit of clarification: I’m talking about “Demand Management” workflows, not document approvals or anything else you might…
In my last post, I mentioned that I was joining my local chapter of OWASP and would write about any interesting presentations. The first one that I attended was called "Supercharged John the Ripper Techniques" and was presented by Rick Redman of KoreLogic Security. His presentation was a real eye-opener to me, especially in my…
I have now seen or heard of this particular error when installing AVIcode from three different sources so I figured it’s time to put it out there in case others run into this. The installation of AVIcode goes smooth, but when attempting to open any of the websites from the Intercept web page the following…
During Q&A after my Operations Manager Evolution session (BB37) several interesting questions were posed when I hope to respond to over the next several weeks. The question asked (paraphrased below) is: “Can I set the order of execution for diagnostics and recoveries in Operations Manager?" A couple of technical notes on this first: “Diagnostics and…
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