Printer Management Pack

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So while on the subject of great things from Steve Rachui :p :>> 88| , he also wrote extensively about the Printer management pack and alternatives to make it better (like the Kevin Holman addendum by the way) and also the great additional printer mp tha…

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Remotely testing SQL connections

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One nice gem from Steve Rachui’s blog is a trick on how to simply troubleshoot remote SQL connections.
Just create an empty txt file anywhere on the disk and give it an UDL extension and click it. You will see a tool popping up with several tabs. on t…

SCOM monitoring the Configuration Service

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Thanks to Marnix Wolf for posting about the new SCOM R2 core management pack 6.1.7595.0 and that it has an important monitor turned off by default. You should turn this monitor on in order to monitor the service and if needed restart it as suggested by M…

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 is RTM

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SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 has just been released a few days ago.
You can download files here:
The SQL 2005 SP4 Readme file
Download SQLServer2005SP4-KB2463332-x64-ENU.exe for X64
Download SQLServer2005SP4-KB2463332-x86-ENU.exe for X86
Downloa…

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Quick Guide to SCOM – the 101 guide

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Today I will re-blog some usefull stuff that I came across and that I want to remember B)
So lets start with this one:
Two SCOM premier field engineer guys wrote a SCOM 101 guide with a lot of good information for starting SCOM admins.
A table fo…

Put agents back to Remotely Manageable – 2007 R2

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When you have a update -in my case CU3- you have to upgrade your agents. Only the agents which are flagged as Remotely Manageable will show up in your Pending view to upgrade the agents.So how to upgrade those agents?Well first change your view s…