Mark Wolzak

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This morning I had a good laugh about the 'copy to clipboard' function. I must say you can't blame Microsoft for a lack of humor. I received the following error and clicked 'Copy to clipboard': When pasting the results to Notepad it...

Published 07-01-2010 8:06 by markw

Speeding up WSUS-client detection of new updates

We're using WSUS 3.0 to update our environment with the latest Windows Updates. Overall usage is fairly simple... however... I found that sometimes when a lot of updates had to be installed on a server, not all approved updates were downloaded to...

Published 28-10-2009 21:31 by markw

Filed under: Infrastructure, WSUS

Esent keys are required

It's been a while so I figured it's time for a new post. When trying to change the configuration of an operations manager agent to use a different management server I ran into the error "microsoft esent keys are required to install this application"...

Published 27-10-2009 11:05 by markw

Filed under: System Center, Operations Manager, Infrastructure, OpsMgr, SCOM

Please wait...

I've seen this error in numerous occasions now (in both virtual pc and virtual server) and even so many solutions on the web: 'please wait while the installer finishes determining your disk space requirements' . The last time was when installing...

Published 22-06-2009 16:08 by markw

Filed under: Infrastructure, Other

Operations Manager 2007 R2 RTM out NOW

Hurray!!! As anounced at the MMS 2009 in Las Vegas, Operations Manager 2007 R2 RTM would be released within 30 days. Although not yet visible on the opsmgr microsoft site , Operations Manager 2007 R2 has apparently gone RTM since it appeared on the download...

Published 22-05-2009 8:27 by markw

Filed under: System Center, Operations Manager

New features in OpsMgr 2007 R2

I've been one of the lucky guys to be able to attend the MMS 2009 in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. One of the things I saw over there was System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. Apart from the new features mentioned by Kerrie Meyler in a short article...

Published 16-05-2009 23:48 by markw

Rights in the OpsMgr Shell

Our servicedesk is using an adapted version of the GroupMaintenancemode -script from Boris Yanushpolski and his Agent maintenancemode script. These users are all OpsMgr operators and authors. Until recently this script worked fine for them, but i suspect...

Published 14-05-2009 8:48 by markw

Filed under: System Center, Operations Manager, Powershell

Web Application Request Errors in OpsMgr

Operations manager 2007 offers the possibility to monitor your websites from a client perspective through Web Application Monitoring. After setting up the monitoring you point out watcher nodes to perform the actual monitoring for you. These watcher nodes...

Published 05-03-2009 22:43 by markw

Filed under: System Center, Operations Manager

Win32_network adapter "provider load failure"

Yesterday I found a nice powershell script on microsofts scripting guys site to enable or disable the network card . I decided to give the script a try and was surprised to find it didn't work as expected on my laptop. The script gave me an awful...

Published 26-02-2009 21:28 by markw

Filed under: Powershell, WMI

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