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Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9:38 AM

[Announcements] New FAQShop Facebook Page Now Available

I'm pleased to announce that the new FAQShop Facebook Page is now up and running which you can access at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/FAQShopcom-Microsoft-System-Center-FAQs/350202469935 I know everyone is different and we all consume information...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010 9:25 AM

[FAQ][SMS] SMS 2003 Upgrade to ConfigMgr 2007 "Setup has detected an existing installation of the administrator console..."

Problem: I'm trying to upgrade a Secondary Site but the option to upgrade the Site is greyed out. I'm seeing this in the ConfigMgrSetup.log: Setup has detected an existing installation of the administrator console. This server seems to be a site...
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010 9:43 AM

[FAQ][SMS] *UPDATED* "Could not find stored procedure ‘master..xp_SMS_notification’. : SMSDBMON_SiteControl_ins"

Problem: I’ve tried doing an In-Place upgrade of SMS 2003 to ConfigMgr but it gets part way through the process then displays a “Fatal Error” dialog box stating “Configuration Manager Setup cannot continue because of the following...
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Friday, July 30, 2010 11:28 AM

[FAQ][SMS] “There are jobs to target_site_code of the same priority waiting to be sent, won’t send this batch”

Problem: I have sent a Package to a remote DP but it has not arrived. Looking in the replmgr.log on the sending Site it states: “There are jobs to < target_site_code > of the same priority waiting to be sent, won’t send this batch”...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010 12:52 PM

[FAQ] [SMS] "SQL error <[08S01][0][Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Communication link failure"

Problem: I'm trying to upgrade my SMS 2003 SP2 Central Site to SP3. However, the installation fails with a dialog box stating “Systems Management Server Setup cannot continue because of the following error: Setup cannot upgrade the SMS database...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5:31 PM

[SMS] SMS 2003: ITMU v3 requires two passes, two reboots, to deploy April 2010 security patches

This was mentioned on today’s MVP call with the Product Group, which apparently caused a few issues for some of you. So just in case any of you missed it I thought I’d re-post this from the Configuration Manager Support Team Blog : “ We've been getting...
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Friday, May 14, 2010 9:25 AM

[TrainCert] SMS 2003 MCP Exam to Retire 31st October

I see that Microsoft has decided to retire the SMS 2003 MCP exam 70-089 (along with a bunch of others)  on the 31st October. Seems a bit strange to me personally as there are still LOTS of folks using SMS 2003 and personally I would have expected...
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010 9:07 PM

[Events] Free MMS Convention Pass for the price of an email

If you’d like to go to MMS but the price of the Summit pass is beyond you don’t worry as someone is going to win a free pass. How do you enter this free competition? Easy just send an email as detailed below: Secure Vantage Technologies (SVT) is pleased...
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Monday, March 08, 2010 7:30 AM

[MMS] New MMS 2010 Schedule Planner Available

From the MMS 2010 News page: A new download is available on the MMS 2010 site to help schedule your time at MMS 2010. The document provides a session listing grouped by timeslot, with a list of the topics being presented in that slot. To plan your schedule...
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010 9:05 PM

[MS KBs] New KB Articles At Microsoft 3 Feb 2010 - Weekly Summary

Forefront Client Security 976986 Revisions to Forefront Client Security Best Practice Analyzer Outlook 2003 978777 Office Outlook 2003 does not connect to two or more additional mailboxes in a mixed Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010 environment...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010 8:54 PM

[MS KBs] New KB Articles At Microsoft 27 Jan 2010 - Weekly Summary

Internet Explorer 6.0 978207 MS10-002: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer 978722 After the installation of security update 974455 or 976325, Internet Explorer 6 may stop responding (hang) when accessing Web sites that provide compressed...
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Monday, January 11, 2010 9:07 AM

RSS Feeds for KB Articles for all Microsoft products

I remember a while back discovering the RSS Feeds for ConfigMgr and SMS Knowledge Base articles but misplaced them. So off I went trawling through the Microsoft site and I came across the RSS Feed Product Index . This is basically an index of ALL Microsoft...
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Friday, January 08, 2010 12:28 PM

[MS KBs] Most Recent KBs for <product> RSS Feeds

One of the most useful set of RSS Feeds I use to keep up-to-date with what is happening in Microsoft is their “Most Recent KBs for <product>” one’s. Now for some BIZARRE reason I don’t yet understand I’ve lost my subscriptions to a whole bunch of...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:53 AM

[SMS] Mainstream support for SMS 2003 will end on January 12, 2010

Seeing the following post on the ConfigMgr Support Team blog made me reflect on the beginning of the end for SMS 2003. The product has evolved immensely since I started working with it over 11 years ago (SMS 2.0 SP2), and every iteration the product has...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:58 PM

[Events] MMS 2010 - Registration is Now Open!

Just got this through:   Registration for MMS 2010 is now open! Microsoft Management Summit 2010, April 19 – 23, Las Vegas, Nevada   It’s time to start planning for the Microsoft Management Summit 2010 (MMS 2010) - the place to learn about the...
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