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MMS 2010-> The European Volcanic route to Microsoft System Center Service Manager

This year’s event promised to be the best of all MMS due to the number of product releases and the opportunity to experience delivery of the vision from MMS 2008. In this blog I will share How I finally made

Samuel Erskine April 29, 2010April 19, 2021 Tech Tips Read more

Microsoft System Center Service Manager takes the Berlin Wall Down Again!!

20 years after the historical event, the breakdown of the Berlin wall dividing East and West , I sit in the lounge of a hotel writing this blog. Now you may ask what does this have to do with System

Samuel Erskine November 11, 2009April 19, 2021 Tech Tips Read more

SCCM Installation/Deployment -> Easy as A B C D – What! no screen shots?

You have the DVD and a project deadline now where do you start? The aim of this article is to provide a general process for deploying a new SCCM site. This process can also be applied to an upgrade (I

Samuel Erskine July 10, 2009April 19, 2021 Tech Tips Read more

SMS2003 to SCCM Agent Migration –> Why Should I pimp My Old Agent

Introduction I am a great fan of the program “pimp my ride”. This is a TV program where the producers take an old car and upgrade/rebuild it to a luxury standard car with a few “extras”. Now you may ask

Samuel Erskine April 1, 2009April 19, 2021 Tech Tips Read more

SMS and SCCM Patch management –> An automated security update rollback process

Introduction SMS and SCCM give us the ability to build a process for full automated patch deployment. A healthy site with healthy clients generally leads to a “smooth” automated patch deployment process. One of the first challenges I faced as

Samuel Erskine March 1, 2009April 19, 2021 Tech Tips Read more

ITMU to SCCM Patch management –> A process approach

Introduction Having worked extensively with ITMU in SMS 2003 for datacenter patch management of servers, I welcomed the new architecture promised for SCCM. If you are using ITMU now and are new to SCCM here is a high level summary

Samuel Erskine February 25, 2009April 19, 2021 Tech Tips Read more

Security Updates rollup to a central site without a Software Update Point (SUP) Part II

Creating a view for your Reports The SMSDEF.MOF file update creates the following tables Software_Updates_V4_Data and Software_Updates_V4_HIST. The following SQL script can be used to create a custom SQL view for reports. I have included the computer names from V_R_System

Samuel Erskine February 24, 2009April 19, 2021 Tech Tips Read more

Security Updates rollup to a central site without a Software Update Point (SUP)

The release of System Center Configuration manager has seen a vast improvement in security update management. The improvements have introduced new ways of doing familiar tasks No Security updates compliance at the parent site without a SUP: Prior to Config

Samuel Erskine February 23, 2009April 19, 2021 Tech Tips Read more
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