November 2007 - Posts

There is no address defined for site code in Sched.log

I saw this again today, only seen it a couple of times before - not sure I ever blogged my solution so here goes...

An SMS site was removed from the hierarchy, since it as removed the following entry has been seen in the Sched.log

There is no address defined for site code

I have removed the pending jobs using the preinst command

preinst /deljob:sitecode

This removes the current pending jobs, but the next day more are jobs are created, and the same error as before is in the Sched.log

Here is my solution

  • Create a folder on another computer and share it with the name SMS_SITE.
  • Create an address (Standard Sender Address) using the site code of the removed site (also seen in the error message)
  • For the Site Server Name use the name of the machine where the share has been created
  • Make sure the site server has the correct permissions to connect and write to the share, or define an account that is to be used

After a while some files will appear in the new folder, leave for a few days, then remove the files and the share. If there are no more error messages in the Sched.log remove the address for the old site.

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Free SQL 2008 Seminar at Microsoft, Reading on Dec 4th

Below are details of a free SQL 2008 seminar taking place at Microsoft, Reading on Dec 4th

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032355354&Culture=en-GB

Remember it is Free !!

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Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer Released

Microsoft have released the Group Policy Best Practice Analyzer for download. The Microsoft Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer (GPDBPA) for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is designed to help you identify Group Policy configuration errors or other dependency failures that may prevent settings or features from functioning as expected.
 
GPDBPA Download
 
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=47F11B02-8EE4-450B-BF13-880B91BA4566&displaylang=en
 
KB Article: How to use the Microsoft Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer (GPDBPA)
 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940122
 
Includes links to a command line version of the tool

 

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Office 2007 - What ever happened to that menu option?

 

This info below may be of use. There are now three additional add-on’s for Word, Excel and Powerpoint (there isn’t one for Outlook at this time). They haven’t been well publicised so I thought it worth sharing these resources.

 

These three additional add-on’s add a tab into the Office application (like the screenshot below) to provide access to the on-line interactive guide. It also provides access to other training resources.

 

 

Word:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3df587370c-fdae-4ede-b528-ac58031a5dff%26DisplayLang%3den

 

Excel:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d8a5af9d7-08a7-41ba-8844-76bb94228957%26DisplayLang%3den

 

Powerpoint:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d831f0ae9-fc50-4074-96d3-d02fd98cb041%26DisplayLang%3den

 

 

 

Office – Interactive command reference guides

Have you ever wondered where that menu option went in the new Office 2007 applications? Now you can find the answer with the following interactive guides which can be accessed online or downloaded to your computer.

 

Excel 2003 to Excel 2007

Online: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA101491511033.aspx Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=89718ABD-2758-47B3-9F90-93788112B985&displaylang=en

 

Word 2003 to Word 2007

Online: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100744321033.aspx Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9044790B-4E24-4277-B714-66D7B18D0AA1&displaylang=en

 

PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007

Online: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA101490761033.aspx Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BEF41DC3-8E28-4282-82D4-CEC2F416CD40&displaylang=en

 

Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007

Online: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102221621033.aspx Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=CC37CC1E-028D-4D30-9093-96CC6513ECA1&displaylang=en

 

 

Other resources:

Getting started with Office 2007 – Basic training for the Ribbon

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/getstarted/FX101938921033.aspx

 

 

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Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 RC0 Available

Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 PRC is now available from

http://connect.microsoft.com/systemcenter

New Features

The new features that are in Operations Manager 2007 SP1 are:

·         Improved performance and reliability when working with alerts, overrides, and searches.

·         In all Alert views, performance has been increased through better fetching and yields alert row selection that is three times quicker. Actions and reports are fetched in the background, which further improves performance. Alert knowledge that is displayed in the Alert Details pane can be shown or hidden according to the user's preference.

·         Operations Manager 2007 advanced search has been improved by enabling the ability to search across monitors and rules by their overrides.

·         Support for the discovery and monitoring of both SNMP v1 and SNMP v2 network devices. Users can select which SNMP Community Version to search for in the Discovery Wizard.

·         Support for exporting Operations Manager 2007 diagrams to Microsoft Visio VDX file format. Note that the Visio button is located on the toolbar when in a diagram view. Diagram layouts can now be saved and will be remembered when the diagram view is selected again.

·         Support for copying and pasting (CTRL+C and CTRL+V) from the Alert details pane.

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