A couple of days ago, I wrote that people often dismiss the need for Quality Assurance by saying, "These are good developers. We don’t need to test their code." Of course, I know from experience that the best developers have errors in their code. I also know that it seems easier for me to see…
At first glance this looks like a reasonable question. I’ve created my own custom monitor – I have an existing Distributed Application but it doesn’t give me the option to add a monitor. Why? The reason is that a monitor impacts state for an entity. A monitor itself is NOT an entity. When architecting Distributed…
I often have to convince people that professional Quality Assurance is a legitimate cost of a project. Most managers who I encounter say that they understand that Quality Assurance is important, but they look for ways to lower or eliminate the cost. Some common suggestions that I’ve heard are: These are good developers. We don’t…
Client hotfixes in ConfigMgr has become an often discussed topic as of late mainly because of the pre-R3 hotfix (977384) required on all managed systems. Microsoft recently published a good KB on this titled System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Hotfix Installation Guidance. Near the bottom of this KB they added this small query to help…
Inspired by a recent forum thread (and John Marcum), I put together a little test to verify if ConfigMgr does indeed automatically retry advertised programs that failed. I created a simple one line batch file and advertised it on my test client: exit 999 This one line simply exits the batch file and returns…
So you want to deploy FEP to a collection? Good. Let’s get started. Select the collection you want to deploy FEP to, right click on it, choose Distribute, then Software. Next. You’ll want to select the existing package Microsoft Corporation FEP – Deployment 1.0 . This package was created when FEP was installed. FEP…
Just a short post today – I needed to find out the name of the configuration database for a SharePoint 2007 farm. I did an internet search and found some ways to do it programmatically but being an Administrator and not a developer, that didn’t seem like the easy option. So, if you are a…
During a conversation with a client recently the discussion came up on how to more quickly add a large number of performance counters into the performance view. They had a significant number of counters which they were scrolling through the performance view and checking the checkbox on the left side to add them. There is…
Read the original post here. The Configuration Manager 2007 R3 Transfer Site Settings Wizard now has two new options: Power Management Agent and Enable Active Directory Delta Discovery and Delta Discovery Interval. Our very own Chaohao Xu dissects each of them here.
I’ve been working on a side project in rails that uses AJAX for all posts to the server with JQuery BBQ as state management (using the hashchanged event to provide bookmarkable views) and ran into a problem that can happen to anyone using JQuery. When AJAX calls are placed, they often retrieve HTML that contains…
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