We get to package WinZip every version, and it got me thinking they could have probably stopped at maybe version 2 or well when they added Rar and Iso support. It seems they started adding random stuff to it around version 8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinZip#History
One version they decided to add a feature that deleted files on USB drives.
I like that they skipped 13. I think they can stop now, adding a zip to cloud won't make using files any easier!

WinDVD, I don't know much about this software however their developers must be running out of things to do, when the installer is this bright blue 3d spaceship thingy that almost crashes my machine and downloads itself it makes me think they are running out of things to do as well.

Flash - Needs to go away, not sure what they can add to it however they could make their installer more enterprise friendly.

Dropbox - Is one of my favorite apps, hope it doesn't go to silly. Maybe they will add cloud to zip, take that WinZIp!

Management Point's rely heavily on IIS and IIS loves to log a lot which will fill up your hard drive. Here's a script that deletes logs older than 14 days. Location and amount of days can be changed easily.

We have ours scheduled to run monthly on site systems using IIS.

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Each patch Tuesday a pilot group gets the updates and receives an excel report on what is being deployed, you can automate this with ConfigMgr!

1. Create a collection such as
Monthly ADR Report Group - DO NOT REMOVE

2. Next we need to create a dummy ADR rule that is deployed to the collection you have made but not enabled, as this is only used for reporting we dont need to create new Software Update Groups . Fill this in with the updates you want to report and set it to run after your other ADR rules.

3. Run the rule now to create the deployment. You can monitor ruleengine.log on the site server to verify it completes.

4. Under Monitoring Reporting Reports find 'Management 3 - Updates in a deployment' and right click then 'Create Subscription'

Update: Use Complaince 3 - Update group (per update) as it doesn't require a machine in the collection to work.

5. Fill out the email fields and click Include Report and change to the file type you want to send.

6. Set the date to run after your ADR Rule runs.

7.  You can also edit this under subscriptions and change it to today's date to test it.

8. All done, thx be happy!

Have you ever needed someone to collect logs off a machine and came to find that the vital log you wanted wasn't collected? Lost in the sea of logs?

Microsoft feels your pain!

Microsoft has released an excellent support tool to assist in troubleshooting ConfigMgr. It can collect logs, policys, wmi, registry etc; from remote or local machines. Also includes a log viewer that groups logs by function. I think it will eventually replace CMTrace.

It's in BETA so read the release notes!  Update: It's released!

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42645

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We recently logged a case with Microsoft as multicast wasn't working because the SMS_MCS_AltAuth IIS virtual directory was missing. The work around is to delete the condition in the msi (SMSbinx64mcs.msi)

MCSIsapiAltAuth.866DCF8D_BC89_48AE_9AE6_69F1BAAEF805 in the MSI:

(SMSSSLSTATE >< 1)

and then enable multicast.

This is due to the MSI evaluating whether the site is HTTPS instead of the component.

This has been fixed in R2.