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.
Sep11
Ok, all you Configuration Manager and SMS guys and gals. Here’s a good reason to upgrade your servers and workstations to the latest Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Yea, I copied this out of the Technet Library, but It’s very well written and I know this will really help many of you. So, I wanted to point this out and make sure everyone is aware of this ability. http://technet.micr...
Posted by James Avery on
Friday, 11 Sep 2009 11:03.
Sep8
Since I have an IPhone, I was thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if I can have OCS on my IPhone?". Well, Guess what!?! There is a piece of Software that allows you to have the same access as you do with your OCS client on your desktop and it's called, "iDialog". Two Catches! First, since this software utilizes OCS Web, you are unable make or receive calls from it via internet. Se...
Posted by James Avery on
Tuesday, 8 Sep 2009 01:15.
Jul1
While upgrading workstations from SMS client to SCCM client, I ran into several workstations having WMI errors in the CCMSETUP.LOG file, specifically; "MSI: Warning 25001. Setup failed due to unexpected circumstance. The error code is 80041001" I was able to resolve this by following the process outlined below. Uninstall the SCCM client by running "%WinDir%\System32\ccmsetup\...
Posted by James Avery on
Wednesday, 1 Jul 2009 05:43.
Jun26
Have you ran across where you keep seeing PC's show up in your Collections with duplicate names and every time you update and refresh the collection you'll see a different set of PC's show duplicates. Sample I was seeing this happen while at a customer and it turned out they imaged a machine with ghost and then used that image over and over and over. Well, if they don't prep that machi...
Posted by James Avery on
Friday, 26 Jun 2009 12:01.
Jun12
I was onsite with a customer for a SCCM gig and the morning started out with a great Friday morning of Exchange 2007 OWA not functioning which is used by a majority of the company for email. So, I halted the SCCM gig and helped the customer resolve the Exchange 2007 OWA issue. Thanks to my co-worker Sohil Merchant from our Houston office, he told me how to resolve this problem in a quick mann...
Posted by James Avery on
Friday, 12 Jun 2009 03:10.