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[Events] SQL User Groups meetings - BI (Reading), DBA/Dev (Leeds/Manchester/Edinburgh)

Only too happy to help out my old friend Tony publicise his SQL User Group meetings: Reading (15th Jan) - Business Intelligence; Leeds (28th Jan) - What's new for DBA's in SQL 2008; Edinburgh (29th Jan) - Upgrading to SQL 2008 and Resource Governor;...

Published Fri, Jan 09 2009 4:26 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

[MS Security Bulletins] Advance Notification for January 2009

This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on January 13, 2009. The full version of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for January 2009 can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/technet...

Published Thu, Jan 08 2009 1:17 PM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

[OpsMgr 2007] OpsMgr 2007 client agents may log OpsMgr Connector 21028 and HealthService 6001 errors

Feed: The Operations Manager Support Team Blog Posted on: 08 January 2009 15:29 Author: jchornbe Subject: OpsMgr 2007 client agents may log OpsMgr Connector 21028 and HealthService 6001 errors Here's an interesting issue we ran into the other day...

Published Thu, Jan 08 2009 11:25 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

[ConfigMgr][MS KBs] Two new ConfigMgr 2007 Knowledge Base articles available - KB959040 & KB959812

Feed: The Configuration Manager Support Team Blog Posted on: 08 January 2009 13:30 Author: jchornbe Subject: Two new ConfigMgr 2007 Knowledge Base articles available For the week of 12-21 through 12-27 we had two new ConfigMgr 2007 articles. The links...

Published Thu, Jan 08 2009 11:24 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

[OpsMgr 2007] System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Service Pack 1 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

Feed: The Operations Manager Support Team Blog Posted on: 07 January 2009 14:40 Author: jchornbe Subject: System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Service Pack 1 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 I was actually looking for something else when...

Published Thu, Jan 08 2009 7:55 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

[MS KBs] New Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base articles for 12-14 through 12-20-09

Feed: The Operations Manager Support Team Blog Posted on: 06 January 2009 14:23 Author: jchornbe Subject: New Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base articles for 12-14 through 12-20 For the week of 12-14 through 12-20 we had three new OpsMgr 2007 related...

Published Thu, Jan 08 2009 7:54 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

[Misc] Bank of England Slashes Interest Rate to ALL Time Low

Not since the Bank of England was founded back in 1694 have interest rates in the UK been at 1.5 % (after the Bank of England announced a 1/2% cut earlier). Great if you’re on a Tracker Mortgage (although some banks have hinted they are not going to pass...

Published Thu, Jan 08 2009 7:10 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

Filed under: General, Misc.

[ConfigMgr] [SMS] SQL 2005 SP3 Now Officially Supported

In case you missed it, Microsoft has added official support for SQL 2005 SP3 to ConfigMgr and SMS. More… Don’t forget you’ll also need the latest Cumulative update I blogged about here ....( read more ) Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 08 2009 6:49 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

Filed under: General, ConfigMgr 2007 (SCCM), Systems Management Server (SMS)

[MS KBs] New SCVMM KB article available - KB959596

Feed: SMS&MOM Posted on: 07 January 2009 14:33 Author: jchornbe Subject: New VMM Knowledge Base article available We have a new System Center Virtual Machine Manager KB article available that fixes a certain P2V issue. If you're getting...

Published Thu, Jan 08 2009 6:42 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

Filed under: General, MS KBs, SCVMM

[MS KBs] New SCVMM KB article available - 961002

Feed: SMS&MOM Posted on: 06 January 2009 14:19 Author: jchornbe Subject: New Virtual Machine Manager Knowledge Base article available We have a new System Center Virtual Machine Manager KB article so if you're using SCVMM and Virtual Server 2005...

Published Thu, Jan 08 2009 6:40 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

Filed under: General, MS KBs, SCVMM

[SQL 2005] Cumulative update package 1 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3

Feed: The Configuration Manager Support Team Blog Posted on: 07 January 2009 14:28 Author: jchornbe Subject: Cumulative update package 1 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 Yesterday I mentioned that SQL Server 2005 SP3 is now supported for SMS 2003 and...

Published Thu, Jan 08 2009 6:34 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

MS Security Bulletin Minor Revision - 8th Jan 09

Summary The following bulletins have undergone a minor revision increment. Please see the appropriate bulletin for more details. * MS08-072 - Critical Bulletin Information: * MS08-072 - Critical - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08...

Published Thu, Jan 08 2009 6:30 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

[MS KBs] New KB Articles At Microsoft 6 Jan 2009 - Weekly Summary

.NET Framework 2.0 954832 FIX: You cannot use the mouse to resize a control if you open many forms in Visual Studio 2005 or in Visual Studio 2008 on a computer that is running the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 Outlook 2003 959633 When you try to print multiple...

Published Tue, Jan 06 2009 1:06 PM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

Filed under: General, SMS KB Articles, Systems Management Server (SMS), Win OS, MS Office, MS KBs

[Security] Researchers hack Intel vPro security system

To be honest I thought it would only be a matter of time before someone tried hacking vPro – not good news: http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=109058&pagtype=all Quite funny that this ad was displayed at the top of the page containing...

Published Tue, Jan 06 2009 9:16 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

Filed under: General, Security

[ConfigMgr] KB 956944 5th Jan 09 - Error message when you use the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 console to connect to a Configuration Manager 2007 site server that is not running Service Pack 1

SYMPTOMS Consider the following scenario: You open a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) console and use it to connect to a site server that is running Configuration Manager 2007 without SP1. You open the Site Settings\Discovery...

Published Tue, Jan 06 2009 2:38 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

Filed under: General, ConfigMgr 2007 (SCCM), MS KBs

[SMS 2003] KB 961726 5th Jan 09 - Available command line switches for PatchInstall.exe

RAPID PUBLISHING ARTICLES PROVIDE INFORMATION DIRECTLY FROM WITHIN THE MICROSOFT SUPPORT ORGANIZATION. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS CREATED IN RESPONSE TO EMERGING OR UNIQUE TOPICS, OR IS INTENDED SUPPLEMENT OTHER KNOWLEDGE BASE INFORMATION. http...

Published Tue, Jan 06 2009 2:35 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

Filed under: General, SMS KB Articles, Systems Management Server (SMS), MS KBs

[MS KBs] Keeping You Up to Date

I’ve made a few New Year’s Resolutions and one of them is to to try to keep up-to-date (and keep all of you updated), on all new and updated KBs coming out of Microsoft as soon as I get to hear about them (something I’ve failed a bit to do of late). So...

Published Mon, Jan 05 2009 4:07 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

Filed under: General, MS KBs

[ConfigMgr][OpsMgr] Coming Soon: Specialized OpsMgr 2007 and ConfigMgr 2007 blogs

In case you missed J.C. Hornbeck’s blog post, effective today the SMS&MOM Team’s Manageability Team Blog is going to be split into dedicated tracks for ConfigMgr/ SMS and OpsMgr/ MOM/ SCE (links below). Don’t panic though, you’ve got a few weeks to...

Published Mon, Jan 05 2009 3:24 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

Filed under: General, Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), ConfigMgr 2007 (SCCM), OpsMgr 2007, Systems Management Server (SMS)

Congratulations 2009 Microsoft MVP!

As well as marking the start of the New Year the 1st of January is always a time I get nervous and excited at the same time in checking my email to see if my MVP has been re-awarded. Well as you can see from the mail below I’ve been very fortunate in...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2009 12:28 PM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

Filed under: General, WMUG, ConfigMgr 2007 (SCCM), Systems Management Server (SMS), MVP, Community, News

Happy New Year from London

How Necy and I spent New Year’s Eve – Happy 2009 everyone. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8POeYMnJY6U...( read more ) Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2009 4:45 AM by Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com

Filed under: General