Blogs

This is still an old one , but I can imagine some admins are still freaking out when seeing this . In Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 , when trying to build a query that contains...

A few days ago , I explained in this blogpost “ http://scug.be/blogs/sccm/archive/2010/08/10/configmgr-connecting-primary-child-sites-to-central-primary-parent-site-in-and-out-of-same-domain.aspx “ on...

Hi All,   The Opalis team just blogged about their short term plans, and they look bright. For starters, platform wise Opalis will step into the 21st century by switching the supported platform to...

Today I was at a customer doing a migration from a Configmgr 2007 with site code APL to a new Configmgr 2007 site with site code ICT. I couldn’t get my new Configmgr site with Site code ICT attached to...

Steve Rachui published another great post over on his blog, this time about using the Windows Server 2008 R2 Direct Access feature to manage Internet based clients of System Center Configuration Manager...

The importing of a license in Opalis doesn’t always run smoothly.  In part III of my “how to install Opalis” blog post, the importing of the license into the Opalis License manager failed saying that...

The Action Server is where Policies run once they are started. You can deploy an Action Server to any computer that can communicate with the Datastore. Action Servers can be deployed automatically from...

As promised in previous post, here is already an interesting topic. Many people seem to be having issues with installing an agent on a domain controller (DC) or on a read-only domain controller (RODC)...

A little bit unnoticed, but found it today, is the fact that there are 4 new documents for System Center Data Protection Manager 2010. The documents can be found here: Planning a DPM 2010 Deployment Deploying...

Hey All, Just discovered (by accident) a new blog about DPM.  The name of the blog is DPMCallBack and can be found here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpmcallback/ The first post is already a good one...

In the following Install series I’m going to how to install and configure Opalis! Opalis Integration Server includes the following components: Action Server - The engine that runs Policies. Action...

System Center Service Manager is released some time and there is already a lot of information available on blog sites. The main source for creating this list is the Service Manager Product Group blog site...

You ever wanted to know by a report what your BIOS version from a particular set of machines in a particular collection where ? Than use the SQL statement below : SELECT COLL.Name, BIOS.SMBIOSBIOSVersion0...

Microsoft released a week ago the 3 rd quarterly update for the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 management pack. You can download it from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID...

Hey All, It is with great pleasure that I can announce that I have received the MVP Award for System Center Data Protection Manager. As it goes with an award, it is custom to thank some people, and in...

Hey all, yesterday I had the pleasure of giving a presentation on the Belgium Community Day ( www.communityday.be ).  This event, organized by some members of the Belgian Community is getting more...

Hey All, Part 3, the actual upgrade.  After a lot of issues with the OS upgrade and the easy part for the prerequisites and “pre-jobs” it is time for the real upgrade. Before I describe the attempt that actually worked, I should mention that I had...

Hey All, The last weeks I had to work on an upgrade from SCE 2007 to SCE 2010.  I had a lot of issues with it so I wanted to give them here so that you can avoid them if you need to do that The situation SCE 2007 is installed on a windows server...

Thursday 24/06 I am co-presenting a session with my SCUG buddy Kurt Van Hoecke about “Service Manager Integration with System Center” at the Community day 2010. After a hectic week , we are...

A recent implementation at my ConfigMgr 2007 R3 TAP customer of R3 and SQL reporting services  put me thinking ahead for our disaster recovery procedure . SRS Reporting role needs to be installed...

Today , I was at a customer and I was struggling with a specific status message ID 5413 in the status messages. I just installed a brand new Configmgr site with sitecode ABC … What is happening ? What...

In the following blog posts I want to provide an overview of the reporting functionality in Service Manager. Extracting data out of the service management tool for analysis or performance measuring is...

This new white paper discuss how you can run SQL server workloads on our Hyper-V (R2) infrastructure. The tests in this white paper demonstrate that Hyper-V provides the performance and scalability needed to run SQL Server workloads in consolidation scenarios...

This session will look at the 20 most common configuration changes or customizations that we implement in our consulting engagements. At the end of this session, attendees will leave with the knowledge...

Tech∙Ed Europe returns to Berlin this November 8 – 12, for a full week of deep technical education, hands-on-learning and opportunities to connect with Microsoft and Community experts one-on-one. ...