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Oracle to Continue Porting Its Software to HP's Itanium Servers

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:09 AM PDT

The decision comes weeks after a judge ordered Oracle to continue developing software for Itanium as long as HP continues to make Itanium-based servers. - Oracle will continue developing database and other enterprise software for Intels Itanium processor platform in the wake of its lengthy court battle with one-time partner Hewlett-Packard. Oracle executives announced their decision in a statement Sept. 4, a month after a California judge ordered ...

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FCC to Begin Mobile Broadband Speed Tests

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 09:21 AM PDT

The FCC is ready to start grading mobile broadband performance under its Measuring Mobile America program. - Building on the model for the Federal Communications Commission's ongoing Measuring Broadband America program, the FCC announced the countrys first nationwide mobile broadband performance-measurement program, Measuring Mobile America. The program, created to help test mobile performance data, fo...

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Altaro beats Veeam and Microsoft DPM in providing support for Windows Server 2012
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Information on SCCM 2012 logs

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 10:29 AM PDT

I was asked by management to test Endpoint Protection in our SCCM 2012 lab. This was my first time working with the product so I did not have much experience. My first task was to determine what logs to examine during the setup of the Endpoint Protection Point. The first place I checked was the SCCM 2012 documentation library. By using the information in the documentation library, I was able to find the names of the Endpoint Protection logs, their purpose, and if they were a server or client log.

Information on all SCCM 2012 logs

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh427342

Example of the information in the SCCM 2012 documentation library

SCCM: Configure Client Agents, Distribution Point and Management Point

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 07:57 AM PDT

This is a continuation of my SCCM 2007 videos. I go over how to configure Client Agents, Distribution Point and the Management Point with your SCCM management console.

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Installing Updates Via The SCCM Client

Posted: 24 Jul 2012 06:28 PM PDT

Continuing from my last blog entry on checking for pending updates on the SCCM client, I will now show how you can use this information to determine if an installation is already occurring and performing an installation if nothing is happening. While I will not completely re-hash the process for gathering all of the updates, I will do a little refresher on a couple of things.

First off, we need to create that same Com object as before:

#Create the Update Object  $SCCMUpdate = New-Object -ComObject UDA.CCMUpdatesDeployment

The most important part of determining if there is an installation attempt occurring is making sure that we have a reference configured in a variable, in this case, I am using $Progress. If we receive anything other than a 0, then any attempts at an installation will fail.

<#Create the reference variable for progrss.  This is important because if the value of $progress is anything but a 0, then we cannot  proceed with the rest of the installation  #>  [ref]$progress = $Null

Now we go through the same process of enumerating all of the updates pending on the SCCM client

#Begin enumerating through the updates: Install = 2, ShowHidden = 1, reference to progress for the overload values  $updates = $SCCMUpdate.EnumerateUpdates(2, 1, $Progress)

Note where I used the $Progress variable for the reference to store the progress data. Let's take a look at the progress to see where it is at.

Luckily for us, it is a 0, meaning that we can proceed with the installation attempt of the updates. Here is a table showing the other possible values and their meanings.

0	UPDATE_PROGRESS_NONE
1	UPDATE_PROGRESS_OPTIONAL_INSTALL
2	UPDATE_PROGRESS_MANDATORY_INSTALL

Next, it is time to see if we actually have any updates that need to be installed.

#Find out how many updates are available for installation  $UpdateCount = $updates.GetCount()

Perfect, we have some updates to work with!

For this, I will be using the InstallUpdates() method from the UDA.CCMUpdatesDeployment object we created. But before we can attempt that, we need to create a collection of the UpdateIDs, which are required by the InstallUpdates method.

[string[]]$UpdateIDs = For ($i=0;$i -lt $UpdateCount;$i++) {        $updates.GetUpdate($i).GetID()      }

As you can see, we have the UpdateIds as a collection. Of course, this is not human readable by any means. Fortunately, I have a function that I can use to find out what those updates are exactly.

Get-SCCMClientUpdate -ShowHidden

Now it is time to install the updates. Note that there are 3 values which are required for this to work correctly:

Array of UpdateIds
ContentPriority

Possibly values for Download Priority

0	PriorityForeground
1	PriorityHigh
2	PriorityMedium
3	PriorityLow

Options for the installation

Possible Option Flags (Note that these are bit-wise flags meaning that you will need to use –BOR)

0×0001	UPDATE_CHECK_LOCATIONS
0×0002	UPDATE_FORCED_SCAN
0×0004	UPDATE_WAIT_AU_AVAILABILITY
0×0008	UPDATE_IGNORE_SERVICEWINDOW
0×0010	UPDATE_IGNORE_REBOOTWINDOW
0×0020	UPDATE_RETRY_DETECT_ON_FAILURE
0×0040	UPDATE_RAISE_MOMALERTS_ON_FAILURE
0×0080	UPDATE_DISABLE_NONSMS_MOMALERTS

A quick example of working with the Options flags.

$Options = 0x0001 -BOR 0x0002 -BOR 0x0020  $options

Now we can begin the installation.

$SCCMUpdate.InstallUpdates($UpdateIDs, 0, $Options)

Now here is my disclaimer that I am not a SCCM expert and am not really sure where you can easily monitor the installation progress. With the Windows Update Agent, the installation will hold up the console (or script) until it has completed. And once it has completed, you can work with the output to determine what installed and what failed. With the SCCM agent, I have not been able to easily track the installation progress of the updates. One place I was able to locate to see the status and result of installation is at: C:\Windows\System32\CCM\Logs\UpdatesDeployment.log.

Whether this is the best way or not is uncertain at this point. If there are SCCM experts out there who know of a better way, I am definitely open to hearing about other ways to track the installations and will update this article to mention those ways. But as you can see, installing the pending updates with the SCCM client is yet another great thing you can do with PowerShell!

Updated eBook for IT Pros on Windows Server 2012

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 02:19 AM PDT

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Rod Trent wrote a new post, The rest of the Windows Server 2012 launch session replays are now online

Posted: 04 Sep 2012 09:19 PM PDT

In addition to providing the four specific major area keynotes for the Windows Server 2012 launch, Microsoft provided even more granular area sessions where Windows Server 2012 provides value.