It is a known principle that 20% of challenges have an 80% negative impact on the business/technological Environment. The converse is 20% of value add processes have an 80% positive impact on the business/technological environment. In this blog we will
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
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
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
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
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
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
