Security & Management

March 2006 - Posts

MOM Remote Pre-requisite Checker

Check if the required services and ports are allowed to push an agent or run discovery with this stand alone utility.

This is a new tool in the Resources Kit for MOM 2005.

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Posted: Wed, Mar 29 2006 3:16 by daniel | with no comments
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Service Continuity Solution Accelerator for MOM 2005

It is a great solution for implement a DR solution for MOM 2005. It provides automatic failover and monitoring continuity through:

  • Muliple Management Groups.
  • Failover Management Servers within a Management Group.
  • Clustered MOM Database.
  • MultiHome MOM Agent.
  • DR Sites.

 

More Information About Service Continuity Solution Accelerator.

 

Posted: Tue, Mar 28 2006 7:51 by daniel | with no comments
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Schedule the Refresh for SMS Client's Machine Policy

In some cases, You may want to change the Machine Policy Refresh Cycle on the SMS Client. And you may want the SMS Clients to get the Updated Policy/Instruction from SMS ASAP.

To do this automatically, You should schedule the Script to run on the SMS Clients.  

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On Error Resume Next

Dim objCPAppletMgr
Dim objClientActions
Dim objClientAction
Dim strActionName

strActionName="Request & Evaluate Machine Policy"

'Get the Control Panel applet manager object
set  objCPAppletMgr = CreateObject("CPApplet.CPAppletMgr")

'Get a collection of client actions

set objClientActions=objCPAppletMgr.GetClientActions

'Loop through the available client actions

For Each objClientAction In objClientActions
  
  If objClientAction.Name = strActionName Then
    objClientAction.PerformAction 
     WScript.Echo "Action " + objClientAction.Name + " initiated"
  End If
Next

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You can get more SMS scripts on the Microsoft Script Center!

 

Posted: Sun, Mar 26 2006 4:49 by daniel | with no comments
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Running MOM 2005 SP1 on SQL Server 2005

MOM 2005 SP1 is not compatible with SQL Server 2005 without these 3 hotfixes.

Unable to discover computers in AD after upgrading to .NET Framework 2.0

Errors can occur when data collected by MOM 2005 SP1 is queried with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

Deadlocks may occur with MOM 2005 SP1 on SQL 2005

 

Posted: Tue, Mar 14 2006 3:27 by daniel | with no comments
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SMS 2003 Collection Query for Office 2003 Pro Installation

Finds all SMS Clients that have the resources required to support Offiice 2003. This requires a 233MHz processor, 128MB Ram, 400 MB of free space, and Windows 2000 SP3 or later (including Windows XP and Windows Server 2003)

 

select SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_R_System.SMSInstalledSites,

SMS_R_System.OperatingSystemNameandVersion,

SMS_R_System.ADSiteName, SMS_R_System.IPSubnets from

SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_PROCESSOR on

SMS_G_System_PROCESSOR.ResourceID =

SMS_R_System.ResourceId inner join

SMS_G_System_X86_PC_MEMORY on

SMS_G_System_X86_PC_MEMORY.ResourceID =

SMS_R_System.ResourceId inner join

SMS_G_System_LOGICAL_DISK on

SMS_G_System_LOGICAL_DISK.ResourceID =

SMS_R_System.ResourceId inner join

SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM on

SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.ResourceID =

SMS_R_System.ResourceId where

(SMS_R_System.OperatingSystemNameandVersion = "Microsoft

Windows NT Workstation 5.0" and SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.CSDVersion >= "Service

Pack 3") or (SMS_R_System.OperatingSystemNameandVersion =

"Microsoft Windows NT Server 5.0" and SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.CSDVersion >= "Service

Pack 3") or (SMS_R_System.OperatingSystemNameandVersion =

"Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 5.0" and SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.CSDVersion  >= "Service

Pack3") or SMS_R_System.OperatingSystemNameandVersion =

"Microsoft Windows NT Server 5.2" or  SMS_R_System.OperatingSystemNameandVersion = "Microsoft

Windows NT advanced Server 5.2" or SMS_R_System.OperatingSystemNameandVersion = "Microsoft

Windows NT Workstation 5.1" and SMS_G_System_PROCESSOR.MaxClockSpeed >= 233 and SMS_G_System_X86_PC_MEMORY.TotalPhysicalMemory >= 130612

and (SMS_G_System_LOGICAL_DISK.FreeSpace >= 400 and

SMS_G_System_LOGICAL_DISK.Name = "C:")

 

 

Posted: Sat, Mar 11 2006 4:40 by daniel | with no comments
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MOM 2005 SP1 Resource Kit

Alert to RSS Utility: Now subscribe to alerts via RSS!

Computer Group Hierarchy Utility: Now export your Computer Group Hierarchy and recreate it else where. Also supports creating Computer Groups based on AD containers and it’s hierarchy

Console Scope Utility: Automatically update Console Scope membership with this utility. You can also mirror AD Security Group membership to a console scope using this utility

DAS Role Update Utility: Harden your MOM servers by using this utility to remove the BUILTIN\Administrators group from the MOM Administrator role

Management Group Utility: If you have orphaned Management Group data on your agents from Test Management Groups, then this tool is for you. Allows you to list and remove Management Groups from the agent side

MOM Remote Pre-requisite Checker: Check if the required services and ports are allowed to push an agent or run discovery with this stand alone utility

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Posted: Wed, Mar 1 2006 19:28 by daniel | with no comments
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