WMUG are preparing to Interview the Microsoft System Center Product Groups. The Community, yes that means you! has an opportunity to put forward questions, the best of which will be put forward and hopefully fully answered.
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Yesterday evening, the latest WMUG event took place at the Microsoft Reading Campus. We had a great turnout, lots of questions asked of the MS Speaker (Paul Collins) who overviewed the System Center product range, and Gordon Mckenna who as usual, spent...
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Well, Cliff Hobbs has beat me to the post on the announcement that HP have snapped up EDS. Fair enough, considering Cliff works at EDS; It would have felt bad stealing his thunder so to speak ;-) So instead here's something I found today, Microsoft...
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I remember a few years back rumours going round that HP were interested in buying EDS but they never came to nothing. Then a rumour started that Microsoft were looking to buy EDS but again it never resulted in anything. So when my Communicator and email...
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I wrote this stored proc below to get a value and time sampled for a specific Web application rule ' Base Content Size'. The purpose of this was twofold, firstly to grab the actual value from SCOM so I can use it in other systems e.g. to use the...
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Here's another useful query, this gets the current state and date of last change for a specified object (basemanagedentity). I used this one to get state change information out of SCOM into another management product where there's no connector...
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I needed to get values out of SCOM for some specific performance collection rules and couldn't find one anywhere else so I wrote this one below. This might be useful to anyone else having to do the same so here it is. To use this query in your own...
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What are the minimum hardware and software requirements for ConfigMgr Clients? [09/05/08] Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP ConfigMgr/ SMS] In order to install the ConfigMgr Client the target machines need to be running the following hardware and software...
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TODAY is the final day to register for the next WMUG Meeting to be held next Tuesday 13th May at Microsoft's Thames Valley Park. All are welcome and we'd love to see you there. Full details and registration information can be found on the WMUG...
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Is the SMS 2003 Client supported on 64-bit platforms? [updated 09/05/08] Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP ConfigMgr/ SMS] Updated to include some important notes...
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Data Recovered From Space Shuttle Columbia HDD More pictures of the HDD's with the platters showing ;-) Good news around a sad subject. But an amazing data recovery that led to completion of a physics experiment. This may be showing up on MyITForum...
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Mark Minasi will be presenting at the Windows Server Ireland User Group in Dublin on May 30th. For more details and to register goto: http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-IE&EventID=1032378332
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Managing, and collecting Asset information is a very important process for any business, small or large. And to get that job done, there are quite a few tools to choose from. Here I’m focusing on a product from Snowsoft called Snow Inventory to do the...
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Just a quick update to let everyone know that I've added a link to the newly formed System Center Virtual User Group to the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 User Groups listing. If you're looking for a ConfigMgr-related User Group in your...
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To register for the next WMUG User Group meeting a week today (Tuesday 13th May). Full details on the WMUG home page: http://wmug.co.uk
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I'm no app developer but one of the most frustrating things I find is applications that aren't network aware. When I'm working from home I have a direct connection to the Internet (no Proxy server). Of course when I'm in the office I need...