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Comment on SQL 2008 on Windows 2008 R2 by MattD

MattD — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:54:51 +0000

Thank You! You just save me a call to micro$soft.

Comment on DFS Improvements in Windows 2008 R2 by Oldman54

Oldman54 — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:34:03 +0000

Lotus were doing file locking over replicas more than 20 years ago. What is the problem here guys? the number 1 functionality that anyone would be looking for and it’s completely ignored.

Comment on Cool registry keys for OpsMgr 2007 by Babulal Ghule

Babulal Ghule — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:02:54 +0000

From last two weeks I was running the tasks by selecting 10 servers I’ve done this for almost 1000 servers but not now found this great post which solved this
I’ve created reg key “TaskSelectedObjectsLimit ” set value to 1000 and done in one go.

Thanks

Comment on SCCM 2007 R2 SP2 & Intel vPro Integration by Shaun

Shaun — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:13:00 +0000

Hi do you have any experience / documentation on vPro/AMT with NAC/802.1x and SCCM?

Comment on Core Configurator 2.0 for Windows 2008 R2 by nwa zion

nwa zion — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:55:34 +0000

This is the coolest, coolest, coolest … tool ever for Win2k8. I hope Microsoft rewards you guys for this great effort, and for reinforcing Windows status as the default OS.

Comment on Check For Not Running Services In Automatic Mode by craig williams

craig williams — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:20:20 +0000

When I tried to use this script as published I get a 5500 event error on the agent.
I’ve never see CreatePropertyBag called from inside a loop.
I think there are too many bags for opsgmr to deal with.
So this basically just moved the create out of the loop.

‘ Monitor if any automatic service is not running
‘ Excluded: Performance Logs and Alerts service is auto but never running
‘ Create a two state timed generic script unit monitor
‘ HEALTH EXPRESSIONS
‘ Healthy Property[@Name='State'] Contains GOOD
‘ Unhealthy Property[@Name='State'] Contains BAD
‘ ALERT DESCRIPTION
‘ $Data/Context/Property[@Name='Description']$
Set oAPI = CreateObject(“MOM.ScriptAPI”)
Set oShell = CreateObject( “WScript.Shell” )
Set oBag = oAPI.CreatePropertyBag()
allGood = TRUE
Set oWMI = GetObject(“winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2″)
Set allSvc = oWMI.ExecQuery(“Select * from Win32_Service Where StartMode = ‘Auto’”)
For Each oSvc in allSvc
If (oSvc.Started TRUE And oSvc.DisplayName “Performance Logs and Alerts”) Then
sList = sList & oSvc.DisplayName & “, ”
allGood = FALSE
End If
Next
If allGood = TRUE then
Call oBag.AddValue(“State”, “GOOD”)
Else
Call oBag.AddValue(“State”, “BAD”)
Call oBag.AddValue(“Description”, “Automatic service(s) not running: ” & sList)
End if
Call oAPI.Return(oBag)

Event Type: Information
Event Source: HealthService
Event Category: Health Service
Event ID: 5500
Date: 1/29/2010
Time: 8:24:37 AM
User: N/A
Computer: ELVIS
Description:
Frequent state change requests caused the incoming state change request to be dropped due to it being older than the currently recorded state change for this monitor. This could also be due to an invalid configuration for this monitor.

Affected monitor: UIGeneratedMonitor2d0dec3261ce466aa8e1d6f46dba408f
Instance: ELVIS.acme.com
Instance ID: 887E82BA-6A9F-8FBF-F780-C457F76E3AE3
Management Group: BILLGATES

Request generated time: 2010-01-29T08:24:31.4926190-06:00
Requested state: Success

Recorded time: 2010-01-29T08:24:31.5238690-06:00
Recorded state Warning

Comment on About by craig williams

craig williams — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:33:02 +0000

I liked your post about –Check For Not Running Services In Automatic Mode–. But when I tried to use it I get these errors on the agent.
I think it’s happening because you’re creating a property bag for each auto service, and any one of those can change the agent health state. It seems doing that creates too many health state changes for opsmgr to handle.
I see how that’s necessary for the GOOD state of a previously stopped service to be logged so alerts can be auto resolved, so I’m not sure how to fix it while maintaining that ability.
Do you have an update that can still do this without throwing this error? Thanks

Affected monitor: UIGeneratedMonitor2d0dec3261ce466aa8e1d6f46dba408f
Instance: ELVIS.acme.com
Instance ID: 887E82BA-6A9F-8FBF-F780-C457F76E3AE3
Management Group: BILLGATES

Request generated time: 2010-01-29T08:24:31.4926190-06:00
Requested state: Success

Recorded time: 2010-01-29T08:24:31.5238690-06:00
Recorded state Warning

Comment on SCCM SUP in an offline environment by sherry william

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Comment on Quick Tip – When Copying VHDs to a CSV Disk – Use The Disk Owner! by Amit Gatenyo

Amit Gatenyo — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:59:50 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Reuvy.

A couple of days after my post, NetApp has also published a post on this subject at their blog. It contains more details about what I wrote – http://blogs.netapp.com/msenviro/2009/12/file-operations-on-csvs-part-one.html

Check it out, and if something is still not clear, feel free to contact me.

Comment on Quick Tip – When Copying VHDs to a CSV Disk – Use The Disk Owner! by Reuvy

Reuvy — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:24:16 +0000

What do you mean by “not done directly to the volume”? Does that mean the writes are saved but io is just slower?

Also – why should copying be any different than the actual production running of the VMs? If I have a single CSV volume among (for example) two nodes in my cluster, each node running half of my total number of VMs, are you saying that is bad, and that I should have two seperate CSV volumes, one dedicated for each node?