Mapping you're SMS2003 Environment

Published 10 July 2007 16:11

Found this handy article in the July 2007 edition of Technet Magazine, describing an excellent Hierarchy mapping tool written up by Jeff Tondt.

Qoute:

A picture is worth a thousand words. This familiar proverb refers to the idea that complex stories can be told with just a single image, or that an image can be more influential than even a substantial amount of text. It also aptly characterizes the goals of visualization, where large amounts of data must be absorbed quickly.

To a System Management Server (SMS) geek like me, seeing the whole SMS hierarchy in one picture helps me understand how my infrastructure is laid out. You could use such a picture, perhaps, to show the before and after of an SMS migration plan to management. In certain troubleshooting cases, such a diagram could be very useful in finding a solution or at least in getting help from others. And, of course, as a responsible SMS administrator, you need to document your system hierarchy for all sorts of other reasons.

SMSMap V1.0

It has some dependancies, such as DOT NET and Visio etc ...

by Rob
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