One of the requirements for an environment I am working with was to be able to provide performance information for more than a two year period of time. By default, the grooming interval for performance data in Operations Manager is 400 days. To change for this requirement we needed to change the grooming interval on…
Great article by Ned here that discusses the use of /UE and /UEL with USMT 4.0 http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/11/30/understanding-usmt-4-0-behavior-with-uel-and-ue.aspx
When working through some Exchange 2007 alerts, I ran across the “Failure DSNs total” alert. I’ve seen this in previous versions of the management pack and the indications were that since this was a continually increasing value it did not provide a relevant result for a monitor. To verify that this performance counter continues to…
By default the UDI based task sequence will use the UDIWizard_Config.xml contained in your MDT 2010 Update 1 toolkit package. What if you want to use the same toolkit package for multiple task sequences, but provided different versions of the UDI wizard? For example, if you have different domains you want to join, or…
Was working on a crazy collection query today for a client and I needed to exclude the members of another collection in addition to the other queries I had already built into the collection. Took me awhile of searching, but I finally found this post on TechNet. This is the query: Select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name, SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup, SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client…
The post will cover the most common methods that I know of for driver management in ConfigMgr. For once I won’t be talking about MDT integration! Auto-Apply Drivers Auto-Apply consists of importing all your drivers into ConfigMgr and then utilizing the “Auto-Apply Drivers” step in a Task Sequence, this step will match PNP ids and…
Are you looking for a quick way to get all of your servers into maintenance mode without putting any of the Operations Manager servers into maintenance? While there are a variety of great methods available to provide regularly scheduled maintenance mode within Operations Manager, the question was asked for how to do this for all…
In my last post, I discussed a current bug in the Exchange 2010 transport layer that disabled correct read receipt processing. So I was wondering if there was any other way to handle this situation. That pointed me to a new feature in Exchange 2010 that enables users to perform message tracking on their own…
Well, it’s been a little while since I’ve posted anything serious. We just got back from a relaxing vacation, and I am finding it hard to get up the motivation to pick up a couple of blog posts I have had lying around and get them ready for prime time. In the meantime, our IT…
One of the most commonly used techniques for capturing business processes and analyzing them is the Flowchart. They can be applied to a variety of processes and project types, but what exactly are they, why would we use them and how are they created? What is a Flowchart? The Business Analysis Body of Knowledge defines…
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