Well the rain held off until I got home – so so much for that reducing the number of people who actually attended. However there were noticeable spaces, so MS were right to overbook it (as is the general practise anyway). So what did I get out of “The Best of MMS”? I’ve got to say that those 15 min breaks weren’t long enough.There were some ...

Sort of. As you may (or may not) know, I live and work in the UK. In my previous job I worked with SMS and I still keep in touch with the online community I discovered. And it's through that community that I found this: http://spaces.msn.com/members/alfred/Blog/cns!1peScUDIRoEIsu-1YenjVb8w!301.entry . At the end of September, Microsoft will ...

I’m having a lovely time here with MOM . I’ve just been looking at the MBSA scanner. Not only do you have to create the web share on a server and configure MOM to use that, under Windows 2003 you have to specifically disable Windows Authentication or else the clients won’t be able to connect . As it is, we don’t have a ...

Where as SMS has a hugely popular list: http://lists.listleague.com/mailman/listinfo/mssms/ , MOM has a hugely popular newsgroup news:microsoft.public.mom . And where as SMS requires configuration to get going – all I did with MOM was install the appropriate management packs and add the relevant servers. Today I’ve already uninstalled ...

I’m trying out the MOM 2005 evaluation at work on a test 2003 machine. The only two points worth mentioning are that you need to install ASP.Net and that you need to start the SQL Server Agent and ensure that it gets started whenever the machine (re)starts.

Whilst I was downloading several MOM management packs, I came across a link which said “Sign up for Download Notifications” and pointed me to: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=39737 . After following a few links I managed to sign up for a shed load of emails from Microsoft. Time will tell just how many of them are useful/of any use. One ...