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Excellent Network Scanning Tool

Harry Waldron — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:16:40 GMT

Harry Waldron writes, "...NMAP 4.75 Released...A new version of this EXCELLENT network scanning tool is available for security and network administrators..." more

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:16:40 GMT

How to Change the Default Web Console Start View in Operations Manager 2007

System Center Forum — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:54:49 GMT

System Center Forum writes, "The Easy Way - This may work for the view you want to open. If it doesn’t, you’ll have to use the more involved way...The more involved way - This should always work for any view, but it’s more complicated to setup..." more

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:54:49 GMT

Example PowerShell Script: Get-Netstat

Hal Rottenberg — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:55:03 GMT

Hal Rottenberg writes, "...If you want to hack on it, just click on the PoshCode link below the script listing and update it in place. Here is an example showing the obvious benefits of turning screen output into an object:" more

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:55:03 GMT

Help for Configuring Certificates in Operations Manager 2007

System Center Forum — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:31:53 GMT

System Center Forum writes, "Anyone who’s configured certificate authenticate has felt the pain of this process....MS has releasedl…Certificate Generation Wizard....Here are some bits about CertGenWizard and a link to where you can get it " more

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:31:53 GMT

Manage RFID Network with System Center & BizTalk RFID

Sudhir Hasbe — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:35:56 GMT

Sudhir Hasbe writes, "simple demo of how BizTalk RFID and System Center Operations Manager work together to provide a solution to monitor your physical world. " more

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:35:56 GMT

Code to Create Data Driven Subscriptions in SQL 2005 Standard Edition

Greg Low — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:07:39 GMT

Greg Low writes, "...You create a subscription to a report, using tokens for parameters, set the subscription to happen in the past and then execute it using this proc in a scheduled Agent job. The different approach I've taken is: 1. I've provided the ability to deal with a parameter list rather than a single parameter. 2. I found that the ntext columns actually only contained simple xml..." more

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:07:39 GMT

Wizard to Create Unit Monitors for Operations Manager 2007

System Center Forum — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:16:10 GMT

System Center Forum writes, "Here is a File Sytems Management Pack that includes stateful monitoring for several items and includes custom object classes for monitored folders and shares, as well as a lovely diagram view." more

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:16:10 GMT

New RC Version of the Desktop Client and Management Server

Justin Zarb — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:50:44 GMT

Justin Zarb writes, "...we updated the version of the Management Server and Desktop Client that we have available over on the Connect site...The new build number for each component is 4.5.0.1308. What’s changed?..." more

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:50:44 GMT

Tip on How to Retrieve OpsMgr 2007 Discovered Object Classes

System Center Forum — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:36:34 GMT

System Center Forum writes, "enumerate the object classes present in your Operations Manager 2007 environment...it’s equally simple to take this example one step further to enumerate the discovered instances of a given object class. Using a similar one-liner to the previous tip, we can use get-monitoringclass cmdlet to retrieve a list of the discovered object classes, like so" more

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:36:34 GMT

Must-Read for Operations Manager 2007 Design

System Center Forum — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:55:37 GMT

System Center Forum writes, "This is a must-read for anyone wishing to validate their Operations Manager 2007 design....the guide is focused on design and planning - no implementation or operational procedures covered. " more

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:55:37 GMT

Opsmgr and Essentials 2007 Collection

System Center Forum — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:53:57 GMT

System Center Forum writes, "a collection of several of the original and known functional maintenance mode scripts, utilities and MPs. " more

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:53:57 GMT

Best way to group objects dynamically

System Center Forum — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:43:39 GMT

System Center Forum writes, "Grouping objects dynamically is a common request I hear, and grouping hard drives based on drive letter and host computer name the most common amongst those. Here is the best way to perform this grouping based on my experience. I have provided screenshots of the dynamic grouping interface and resulting." more

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:43:39 GMT

Task Market Project - check it out give feedback

Eric Ligman — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:47:29 GMT

Eric Ligman writes, "Microsoft® Task Market is a new Technology Preview site that lets people with tasks find people with the know-how to do them – saving time, and improving the end product....Task Market Solvers create profiles of their skills to help Posters assign tasks to Solvers with the right skill sets...Posters can award and pay several solvers for task...Check out the working tech preview at... and let us know what you think." more

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:47:29 GMT

Keynote recap and Session notes on Configuration Manager 2007

Ronni Pedersen — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:43:12 GMT

Ronni Pedersen writes, "....I have seen similar session at both TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona and at MMS in San Diego last year, so my expectations were not that high… Shame on me… Both sessions were fantastic. Not only did he managed give allot of useful tips on OS deployment, Task Sequences and User State Migration, both he also managed to talk about level 300-400 content in a “non-sleepy way”… Great Job!" more

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:43:12 GMT

Session notes on System Center Data Protection Manager

Nathan Lasnoski — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:36:26 GMT

Nathan Lasnoski writes, "I attended an overview review of the Data Protection Manager product to get a better idea of what the future of the product contains and how it fits into an overall enterprise backup strategy. I had reviewed past versions of the product and was interested to see if it had reached a level of maturity that would allow it to fit the customers we work with. In particular, I was interested to see how the DPM product fit into a Hyper-V virtualization strategy..." more

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:36:26 GMT

Major Changes in MSDN-TechNet Community Sites

Dan Truax — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:03:26 GMT

Dan Truax writes, "...To better support new social experiences in applications like Forums and Social Bookmarks, we are investing in a new Social Platform, which will provide centralized services for User Profile, Recognition, and Tagging....by using a single user profile across Forums, Bookmarking, and Code Gallery, a customer will only need to sign in once to engage with all those applications..." more

Tue, 20 May 2008 21:03:26 GMT

Fix for Error Running SecureStorageBackup

Jeff Guillet — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:54:46 GMT

Jeff Guillet writes, "When backing up or restoring the RMS keys using the SecureStorageBackup utility in SCOM SP1, you may come across the following error...To fix this...." more

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:54:46 GMT

Load Test Report Generator rolled out on Codeplex

Jeff Beehler — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:48:57 GMT

Jeff Beehler writes, "The tool allows users to author and generate reports in HTML/MHT and Doc formats. It applies a task based approach for creating reports and is based on the feedback received from consultants in professional test labs. Reports can also be generated using the concept of a template that makes it very easy to reuse predefined reports as templates for new ones." more

Tue, 13 May 2008 21:48:57 GMT

Service Level Dashboard - What it's worth to you

Richard Riley — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:03:11 GMT

Richard Riley writes, "...I heard someone say you can’t manage what you can’t measure – with this solution accelerator you will be able to better measure" more

Thu, 08 May 2008 16:03:11 GMT

SCOM 2007 SP1 Well, that was painful...

Jeff Guillet — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:48:41 GMT

Jeff Guillet writes, "It seems that SCOM needs to do some more setup when you run the console for the first time. I ended up completely uninstalling SCOM from..." more

Mon, 05 May 2008 21:48:41 GMT