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Consider the following System Center Configuration Manager 2007 scenario: 1. You create a query based collection. 2. You update and refresh that collection and it works correctly. 3. You go to the properties of that collection and edit the query it uses so that it should display different machines. 4...

I was creating some web reports for a remote site today when I came across an old problem Response object error ' ASP 0251 : 80004005' Response Buffer Limit Exceeded /smsreporting/Report.asp, line 0 Execution of the ASP page caused the Response Buffer to exceed its configured limit. This...

Upon looking in the event log you will see "The machine-default permission settings do not grant Local Activation  permission for the COM Server application with CLSID  {D452CB77-FB08-4CB3-B7EE-2F5369982BBE}  to the user ‘LocalMachine\Account’   (S-1-5-21-3975013362-2196494516...

I had a question today regarding why a query showing the last logged on user was not returning the correct value. Now this is a site that I am responsible for so I know there is nothing wrong with it. :o) I had a quick look at the query, and found the answer straight away, I wonder why I have not seen...

Well I had my first WMUG script request, I was asked to write a script that would output the package name and ID from SMS to Excel. Also as requested I have added some remark statements to the script to explain what each part is doing.   'Allow the SiteServer variable to be input from the command...

I was asked to day if it is possible to script a way to force a client to rediscover their assigned site, and if so how? So here it is…. The key you are looking for is EnableAutoAssigment, set this to 1 and the next time the SMS Agent Host Service restarts the client will attempt to run auto site assigment...

Recently I have been working on quite a few problems with SMS 2003 management points, below I have listed the log files that are management point related. Log File Name Role MPfdm.log Moves client files to the corresponding SMS\INBOXES folder.  Review the log when validating problems with file permissions...

SELECT GSCS.Name0 as 'Client Name', GSS.DisplayName0 as 'Service', GSS.StartMode0 as 'Startup Type', GSS.State0 as 'Current State' FROM v_GS_SERVICE GSS, v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM GSCS Where GSS.State0 != 'Running' and GSS.ResourceID = GSCS.ResourceID and GSS.DisplayName0...

SMSMap has been around for quite a while, if you are not aware of it - why not? it is an awesome tool, have a look at this article Jeff Tondt has released an update - thanks Jeff To download the new version click here

Had a problem from one of the sites I support, they said Network Discovery was not working, it was not discovery everything.. So straight way jump in the log files to try and find out why, all looks OK in there… After a few minutes talking to the site about the problem it became clear. Remember...