Aug18
I received a question today asking me, “How long does site to site replication take?” I figured this is a good question because simply it doesn’t have one answer. Depending on type of replication, it could have as many as three or more answers. Replications can be distinguished with a priority of High, Medium, or Low. Replication will continue to scan until one of the three conditions are met: ...
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Wednesday, 18 Aug 2010 12:52.
Apr21
Something I have learned here at MMS 2010 is something I thought couldn’t work no matter what. I know I’ve posted this on several forums and never received any feedback. But guess what everyone, I found the solution! Question: I want to publish my OSD task Sequences to Collections with existing function workstations. Prerequisites: Publish OSD Task Sequences to “All Systems” colle...
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Wednesday, 21 Apr 2010 12:35.
Apr20
I went into this breakout session not thinking much of it and assuming it would give me a little bit of information but not enough to really squelch the hunger for knowledge. I must say, this session was right on the mark when giving information about the new functionality of roles and communications between them with examples (not shown). As you continue to read on, you will find this new hierar...
Posted by James Avery on
Tuesday, 20 Apr 2010 09:34.
Apr19
I’m here at the MMS 2010 in Las Vegas and I’m going to break out sessions, Self-Paced Hands-On Labs and Instructor Led Labs and it’s been a busy day. Especially since this is my first time coming to MMS and my first time in Las Vegas. I must say, I’m glad I brought running shoes! One of my tasks is to review the next version of Configuration Manager currently being temporary called v.Next. Even ...
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Monday, 19 Apr 2010 07:45.
Mar19
While I was at a customer conducting a Windows 7 Assessment, I installed the latest version of the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT 5.5). This isn’t beta, this is a production version of the toolkit. What I noticed was the left pain in the Application Compatibility Manager showed “Windows 7 RC”, I thought that was weird. So, I pinged my friendly co worker TD Williams. He directed me to C...
Posted by James Avery on
Friday, 19 Mar 2010 09:43.
Feb23
Here’s a great script I thought about sharing since I find it to be very handy to assist for the following requirement. Create a “all computers” collection for software updates and exclude various OU’s that have computers not allowed to be updated for various reasons. Please modify the RED areas with the correct information. The great part is, you don’t have to spell out the full OU name to ...
Posted by James Avery on
Tuesday, 23 Feb 2010 06:25.
Feb22
Pulling license data straight from the new MVLS website. Open Excel 2007 Rename Sheet 1 'License Summary' Rename Sheet 2 'License Data' Delete Sheet 3 Select the 'License Data' Worksheet Select Data Ribbon Click the 'From Web' icon Go to the https://licensing.microsoft.com/ Sign in with your Windows Live ID Click the 'View your...
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Monday, 22 Feb 2010 05:41.
Dec10
We all know the day comes where the customer/boss asks, “I need to see if this application is showing installed in the Add/Remove Programs”. Then you review DCM (Desired Configuration Management) and you ponder and ponder and ponder on how to make this work. Well, below is a way to accomplish this task while verifying two items at the same time. The first item is the name of the product and se...
Posted by James Avery on
Thursday, 10 Dec 2009 11:42.
Oct8
If your running IIS6.0 and running a large report, then the browser gives you an IIS error “HTTP 500”. The reason is, your default ASP Buffering Limit is generally set to 4mb. Well, as your Configuration Management database grows, your reports will grow larger. A simple rule of thumb is 1mb per 1000 records. However, I would double that for future growth. Here’s how to resolve this issue. 1....
Posted by James Avery on
Thursday, 8 Oct 2009 12:00.
Sep29
While installing AppV at a customer, we ran into a serious problem causing time to be eaten up. Every time we tried to connect to the AppV database through the AppV management console, we received the error “0000c800”. After reviewing logs from various places, it seemed there was an authentication issue. Most of the URL's we came across on the internet and Technet kept directing us to KB artic...
Posted by James Avery on
Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009 10:06.