Overview

WMIDiag.vbs is a VBScript script designed to help you ascertain the current state
of the WMI service on a computer. The download package includes the utility itself,
a ReadMe file that discusses how the tool works (and how to best use it), and sample
spreadsheets that provide information about the default WMI configuration on various
versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Download
details: The WMI Diagnosis Utility.

REDMOND,
Wash. — July 17, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced it has completed the acquisition
of Softricity Inc., a leading provider of application virtualization and dynamic streaming
technologies. Virtualization is a key technology for reducing the cost and complexity
of IT management, and the addition of Softricity is another step in Microsoft’s ongoing
strategy to make virtualization more broadly accessible and affordable for customers.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Microsoft
Completes Acquisition of Softricity: Application virtualization and streaming functionality
added to Microsoft’s virtualization and management offerings..

Microsoft
System Center Reporting Manager

Component: SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER

Message ID: 2306

The source directory “\\<remote server\packages$\source”
for package “BG100030″ does not exist. The operating system reported error 5: Access
is denied.

Solution: Make sure you have specified a valid package source directory on the
Data Source tab in the Package Properties dialog box in the SMS Administrator console.
If you specify a local path, it must be a local path on the site server. If you specify
a path on a network drive, verify that the path exists and that the path is typed
correctly.

We started getting this error after we moved a directory we used for package source
files to a new server. We were actually accessing the path through a DFS link, like
this:

\\domain\dfs\sms\source —> points to \\server\packages$

The first problem was that the machine account did not have read/list NTFS permissions
on the packages folder.

The second problem was that the machine account did not have read share permissions
on the permissions$ share. DFS uses the share to access the files, so even if you
had appropriate NTFS permissions, you would not be able to access the folder without
share level permissions.

From Duncan
McAlynn’s Microsoft Management Blog The following is a complete list of
the SMS 2003 Client Logs and corresponding descriptions, as assembled and updated
by the Systems Management MVP community. Please use the contact me option if you’d
like to make comments or suggestions for updating.

Duncan
McAlynn’s Microsoft Management Blog : SMS 2003 Client Log Descriptions.

If you are not a part of this beta, there is a public
beta available at Microsoft for SMS R2. Not a lot of major changes in this release
that I could see. They are adding the ability to do patches for line of business apps,
and integrating Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer so you can do compliance reporting
on desktop pc’s.

What’s New

Here is the link
to the download

From the website…

Define desired configuration models and enable SMS 2003 to proactively monitor configuration
settings for compliance. Administrators can create and edit XML models through an
authoring GUI to define desired configuration values and check for configuration compliance
such as registry settings, files, software updates, and service packs.

Click
here for the download page

SMS
2003 Operating System Deployment Feature Pack