Anoter Alternative
There is another alternative ... if you are using MSCRM 3.0
follow this steps
1. Navigate to your report manager --> //<<Server Name>>/reports
2. Navigate to your datasource --> HOME > <<Datasource>>
3. At the top tab select Properties
4. Make sure that there is a user role call "NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE" thus apply the appropiate roles for it
Vula....!!!!!
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What is the best MIIS Skillset to start with?
http://idchaos.blogspot.com/2006/07/chaos-chat-what-is-best-miis-skillset.html
Feel free to comment here or there, thanks!
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A MIIS Engineer needs a strong foundation in 3 basic skill sets:
1. Directory and Identity Management - This skillset includes understand the LDAP protocol, hierarchy, security model, and object manipulation. It also includes a conceptual understanding of digital identity and how it is utilized in an enterprise environment.
2. Database - This skillset includes understanding the SQL language across multiple database vendors ( including MS, Oracle, DB2, etc ). They should know how to create, delete and update tables. How to write T-SQL Queries and simple performance modifications.
3. Programming - They should understand scripting and programming aspects to customize solutions built around directories and databases.
How do you acquire such knowledge?
For Directories I always feel its best to understand the history before you dive into products, so i would say start with the RFCs for LDAPv3. You dont have to read it from cover to cover - but you do need to understand what LDAP can do, how it does it, and how different vendors extend it. Without this you could have someone good in AD but be lost in SunOne. If they know LDAP they can do both. Have them set up each directory from scratch and manage it through a gui or raw format. For example, you dont really learn AD through Active Directory Users and Computers - you really learn AD through LDP and ADSIEdit. This way you get knowledge of the actual attributes and how they are used. Learn how to use CSVDE and LDIFDE for bulk imports and changes. Understand how security affects what can be done and seen in the directory.
For Database I have found the SQL Bible to very useful - http://sqlbible.tar.hu/ This will give the basics of a database so you understand it structure and examples of how it can be used. They should learn how to create a database, understand normalization and primary / foriegn keys. They should learn how to perform somewhat complex queries to the database in an efficient manner. Its all about the data and what it tells you.
For Programming I have found the O'Reilly books to be great. I started with Learning VB.NET and VB.NET in a Nutshell. The former educated me about structures and programming principles although it was very light, with my experience it was all I need to dive in. The latter educated me about the syntax, I basically used it as a reference when I wanted to use different functions. They need to learn the principles so they understand how to apply them to perform some business logic. From experience I have found this aspect to be the most threatening to up and coming Identity Architects but it is one of the most critical skills. They can start with writing simple scripts in VBScript or other language. The important thing here is to be comfortable with the programming model, how to manipulate objects, so they can customize solutions.
Overall, I would say test, test, test. When I first started out I invested in a small home lab ( basically 3-4 PCs and a small hub ) This allowed me to not only read up on the products and the theories but also to install them and get pratical knowledge. You also have other benefits such as coming up with creative ways to destroy application and then testing them out to see if they work. This aids in troubleshooting skills where something doesnt work the way it is supposed to. They have to be able to look at the solution, then break it down to its base components to find the issue.
Hope that helps
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Keeping Group items in a table together within a page
I know that there is a check box saying 'Keep Group together' in Crystal Reports for the same situation. I don't find any such option in SSRS.
Appreciate anyones help.
Regards.
Uninstalling Vista
Please Advise
Respectfully
MrsDD
- Moved by Sheng Jiang 蒋晟 Sunday, June 15, 2014 1:15 AM Not dev related. Windows user forum is at answers.microsoft.com.
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Good luck. No respose since April. My wife purchased a computer that has Vista and I am not able to remove it and install XP.
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Beware installing SQL Server 2005 BOL (May 2007)
Beware installing this update, it can seriously damage your health. I clicked 'install' on my Vista 64 machine and let it trundle off to itself while I was doing some Visual Studio work. It runs for a while and then ... RESTARTs my PC. Without asking and withoug allowing me to save my work. Fresh, new work, gone. Thanks a bunch guys, installing some new docs really merits a restart.
This event is in the system log:
The process msiexec.exe has initiated the restart of computer BLUE on behalf of user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: No title for this reason could be found
Reason Code: 0x80030002
Shutdown Type: restart
Comment: The Windows Installer initiated a system restart to complete or continue the configuration of 'Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Books Online (English) (May 2007)'.
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Thanks very much for bringing this issue to our attention. It is sometimes necessary to reboot after a Books Online update - because Books Online, Visual Studio, and SQL Server Management Studio share components - but the expected behavior is a prompt for reboot rather than an automatic reboot. We are actively investigating the issue, and will re-release the update after we identify a solution, so that other customers will not have a similar experience.
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Bryan
Thank you far replying to my post -- I am a bit calmer now 
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Locale problems
Hello,
I have sucessfully installed SCE 2007 and applied hotfixes KB937831 and KB936339 to resolve some installation problems and some repeating Script or Executable Failed to run alerts.
One type of those alerts remains - I certainly know that it is connected with locale settings in our environment (we use Czech locale). For example:
1) error in CPUUtilization.vbs Type mismatch: 'CDbl' on line where the script tries to convert SCE supplied string value 4.5629463335 to double (Czech locale has comma as decimal separator).
2) error in DiscoverWindowsExplorer.vbs on line where the script tries to compare Windows's CurrentVersion obtained from the registry with numerical value 6.0 (implicit conversion should probably happen).
We use standard configuration with dedicated AD account with administrative privileges on managed computers (used I think for agent installation) and managed computers' local system account as default action account (user I think to run mentioned scripts). Dedicated AD account is added to local Administrators group on managed computers using Startup script provided by group policy.
I cannot find anything about locales in the help system (only a few lines about Administrative Account) and in this forum.
I hope that it can be solved by running the scripts under account with English locale in it's profile. For it I can probably use roaming profile for mentioned dedicated AD account with such setting and change default action account from local system to this dedicated AD account. Can I do it in this way? I guess that there is some simple solution ...
Thanks for help.
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Hi Jakub,
For your issue, I have performed tests in several lab environments. However, I cannot reproduce the problems after changing the locale to Czech. I would like to confirm some information as follows:
1. After installing SCE 2007, what changes have you made on the default monitor settings? I am interested in the issue and would like to perform further test according your reproduce steps. Therefore, the more detailed steps you can provide, the better.
2. Could you please post the detailed symptoms (regarding these *.vbs file such as alerts descriptions under monitor and the error number)? Please record the verbatim message and post it here. This is important information for us to perform further investigation.
3. Which is the OS version of the monitored client computers (please check the related alerts)?
Thanks!
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Sincerely
Jie-Feng Ren
Microsoft Online Community Support
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Hi Jakub,
We have not received your response recently and I am not sure how thing are going there. Although we cannot reproduce the problem here and cannot perform a specific analysis on the requested information, I performed further research here in the past day. I think we may try the following changes to see if the issue can be resolved.
1. Create a new user account and make it a member of the Administrators and the "Domain Admins" groups.
2. Open SCE 2007 console, and navigate to "Administration" -> "Security"
3. Right click "Run As Account", choose "Create Run As Account " and finish the wizard.
On the Create Run As Account wizard, click next. In the next screen, choose "Action Account" in the drop down list under Run As Account Type. In the next screen, type the user name and password which is created in AD and then click create to finish.
4. Click the "Run As Profiles" and then right click Default Action Account in right pane.
5. Click Run As Accounts tab in popup window and choose the problematic managed computer. Click "Edit" tab and change "Run As Account" to the user account which we previously create in AD (Step #1).
6. Log on the problematic managed computer with this newly created user account. Change the locale to English-US.
7. Log off to ensure the locale changes are saved in that user's profile.
Then, please check if the script issue disappears.
I look forward to hearing from you and hope it helps.
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Sincerely,
Jie-Feng Ren
Microsoft Online Community Support
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Hello,
sorry for the delay, I have a lot of things to do and this has currently lower priority. I'm collecting material about various script errors and I will post it here when completed.
Regards,
Jakub Marsik
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Hi Jakub,
Thank you for your reply. I will stand by for your update.
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Hi,
As this thread has been quiet for a while we will be changing the issue type to 'Comment'.
If you wish to return to this question you can go ahead and change the type back to 'Question'. Then you can edit your initial post and change the radio button at the top of the post editor window.
If the issue has been resolved, we'd love to hear your solution. By sharing your experience you can help other community members facing similar problems.
Thanks!
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Regards,
Jie-Feng Ren
Microsoft Online Community Support
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Yes, this is locale problem.
For example, if i change locale from Latvian to English US script works fine.
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Ok I'm happy that someone also confirmed this problem. Is there any other solution than changing default system locale on the target computer? For example have you tried running scripts under different action account and set locale for this action account to english? How?
Thanks, Jakub.
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Hi,
Thanks for your update and bring the experience to us which can help the community in this forum.
Regards,
Jie-Feng Ren
Microsoft Online Community Support
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One of solutions to change decimal separator from "," to "."
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Hi,
I do expérience the same problem. I tried both suggestion (change location or change decimal separator) without success.
I have a Windows 2000 EN. I tried English US, Canada French for location and didn't change a thing.
Any update on that situation?
I really don't want to change regional setting because of the way users use Excel and other finance applications.
Will it be fixed with SP1?
thanks
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Hi,
This is a known issue. Personally, I think it will be fixed in the SCE SP1.
Thanks for your understanding.
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Validating XML before processing in SSIS - a good workaround
Hi all,
Like many, I was a bit surprised and frustrated by the apparent 'issue' with the XML Task when using it inside a ForEach container. Unless I've missed an update to this, it seems that if you have multiple XML files that you wish toprocess with the validate functionality of the XML Task, if you put this task inside a ForEach container the XML Task will return the result of the first file's validation for the rest of the files in the folder. Not good!
After a bit of digging I found the sample code kindly posted by someone that also ran into this problem. (See post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1001433&SiteID=1).
The key to that workaround was the use in code of the XMLReader and XMLReaderSettings classes - a reasonable approach, although it seems like a lot of code for what should be a simple task.
As an alternative, I thought I'd post the workaround that I've successfully implemented. It's very easy to implement:
Firstly, add your XSD schema into SQL Server's schema collections using the CREATE XML SCHEMA COLLECTION statement, for example:
CREATE XML SCHEMA COLLECTION MyXMLSchema AS '<xs:schema...'
Insert your XSD schema between the quotes, and you'll then have a copy of your schema loaded into SQL Server that can be referenced as dbo.MyXMLSchema.
Next, I wrote a stored proc that takes the XML to be validated as an input paramter and returns either 'OK' or the validation error message as an output parameter:
CREATEPROC [dbo].[pValidateXML]
(@SourceXML XML,
@ValidationResult VARCHAR(1000) OUTPUT)
AS
-- This proc validates the passed XML against thedbo.MyXMLSchema
-- schema. If the XML is valid then 'OK' is returned in
-- @ValidationResult. If theXML is not valid then the XML
-- validation error is returned.
SET @ValidationResult = 'OK'
BEGIN TRY
DECLARE @Validator TABLE (XMLToValidate XML (dbo.MyXMLSchema))
INSERT INTO @Validator VALUES (@SourceXML)
RETURN 0
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
SET @ValidationResult = ERROR_MESSAGE()
RETURN ERROR_NUMBER()
END CATCH
The key to this is the use of a SQL variable of type TABLE that specifies a single column of type XML which is a typed xml column that's bound to the schema dbo.MyXMLSchema which we created earlier.
The proc then attempts to insert the passed XML into our table variable. At this point SQL Serverwill do the XML validation for you as it will not allow invalid XML to be inserted into our typed XML column.
Using the brilliant TRY...CATCH error handling that's new to SQL Server 2005, you can trap any errors that occur and return a handy message to the calling process bypicking up the ERROR_MESSAGE() variable in our CATCH block and assigning it to our output parameter.
The next step is to call the proc from SSIS using an EXECUTE SQL task:
- Set up your database connection
- Specify the database connection in the EXECUTE SQL task
- Set the command to: EXEC pValidateXML @SourceXML, @ValidationResult OUTPUT
(Note that it's vital that you include the OUTPUT modifier next to the @ValidationResult parameter. If you don't then SSIS will complain that you're trying to change the type of a variable at runtime)
- You'll need two variables as parameters to the stored proc - one to hold the XML to validate, and another to receive the validation message (this will either be the string 'OK' if validation was successful, or a validation error message if the XML was not valid).
For info on reading XML from a file into a variable, see this post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1448465&SiteID=1
When the storec proc is executed you can use conditional branching in your SSIS package based on the value of the SSIS variable that received the @ValidationResult output parameter. Typically you'll want to handle invalid XML with one path through your package, and valid XML with another. To achieve this, create two precedence constraints on your EXECUTE SQL task. The successful route should have an evaluation operation of type 'Expression AND Constraint'. The constraint value selected from the dropdown should be 'SUCCESS' and the expression should be '@varMyValidationResult == "OK"'. Substitute in the name of the SSIS variable that you used to receive the output parameter above. For validation failures we'll create a second precedence constraint, this time with an evaluation operation of type 'Expression OR Constraint'. The constraint value selected this time is 'FAILURE' and the expression should be '@varMyValidationResult != "OK"'. Be careful when selecting the evaluation operation - make sure you get your AND and OR the right way round!
I implemented this today and it works really well. I hope you have the same experience. Feel free to ask questions if you have any problems with this.
</xs:schema...'wmp.dll self-registration
I have the same problem running on vista and VS 2005.I am Starting to get a bit frustrated. I have used the wmp.dll component in the past running on xp and VS 2003 with no problems. I tried to import a wmp.dll v. 10.??? that I had found on the net and placed in another root. That version went right in to my toolbox, but I just got some 2 instances in memory error instead. I suspect that the problem lies in the wmp.dll version 11 and not in Visual studio.
- Moved by The March Hare Wednesday, October 7, 2009 6:28 PM not about Media Foundation SDK (From:Media Foundation Development)
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Secondly did you try installing the VS2005 SP1 Vista patch? It came after the SP1 patch and is separate?
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Sorry I was referring to: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1331969&SiteID=1
I am having problems importing the windows media player core component into my toolbox in VS 2005 running on vista home premium. It looks like there is quite a few with the same problem out there but i have not seen any solutions though. I have successfully implementing this component in my applications in the past running on xp pro with WMP v.11 installed using VS 2003.
I have tried to Installed Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista with no luck.
Thank you very much for spending time helping
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Also developing on a Vista Home Premium running VB 2005 Express.
WMP object cannot be imported in VS 2005
Tried installing Windows SDK 6.0 and run the multimedia sample successfully with WMP object.
Has anyone solved this stupid bug of VS 2005 and WMP.dll???
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I found out that by NOT running VS as administrator, the COM components are available and works well!!
Give it a try!
Thks to AshleyR's post at http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx?postid=1795109&siteid=1&sb=0&d=1&at=7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=0
The mystery been solved!
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How to Setup VS Studio 2005 for Import and Export to SQL Server 2005 Express as performed in SQL Server 2000
Greetings all,
I have just been getting used to the new VS.NET 2005 IDE environment, IT ROCKS!. And this integrated help is pretty useful when we can all collaborate on the many technical topics we all share.
After reading many post blasting Microsoft for NOT including the DTS Import/Export functionality to SQL Server 2005 Express, and many people just threatening to go back to only use SQL Server 2000. I decided to look into this.
And found an actually simple way to do this.
The new Microsoft IDE in VS.NET 2005 includes the ability to define custom tools to be accessible in the Main Tools Menu.
Follow these steps:
1. Click Tools Menu (in VS.NET 2005 IDE)
2. Click External Tools
3. Define name for menu item in the Title text box
4. Define full path and name of executable in the Command text box
5. Define parameters to pass in the Arguments text box
You can launch any external application here, and a Menu Item is created. You can also pass parameters to this, and this is how we can do some DTS stuff if you do have SQL Server 2000 installed on either your local system, or a system you can access from your computer.
There is a program that ships with SQL Server 2000 call DTSWIZ.EXE. This
is used from the SQL Server Enterprise Manager. (Note: Make sure you have sufficient access to this location)
To use this, first check out the parameters is expects.
1. Shell out to DOS
Click Start, Run, then type in cmd and hit [ENTER]
2. Navigate to location of SQL Server
\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\dtswiz.exe
This program supports several parameters, you can launch this wizard in several ways.
example:
To start up DTS Import
dtswiz.exe /n /i
To start up DTS Export
dtswiz.exe /n /x
Once you have this in place, then you want to Import Data. Simply choose
Import from the Tools menu (the External Tool item you created above)
1. In the Data Source drop down, select SQL Native Client.
2. Click Properties Button (lower left corner)
3. In the Data Source of this screen, put full path to SQL 2005 Express Database
4. Choose authentication
5. Choose Exit
Follow the remaining steps of the wizard for selecting which tables you wanted to import.
This has been thoroughly tested on the following:
Pentium 3 Two-Gigerhz Dual Processer
1 Gig Memory
Running Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 Express
and SQL Server 2000 located on a different Server computer.
I've simply created a Mapped Network drive to the
\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn
to have access to the tools.
Hopefully others can use this activating IMPORT and EXPORT functionality
so you can port some of your smaller SQL Server 2000 databases to a different data tier model.
I am starting to contribute here, hopefully others will get themself a Windows Password account if you don't have one already, and start sharing more material between ourselves.
«/"/"[ Dreams pull reality closer to use all ]"\"\"»
Dim Mind as New Mind
If Mind.Thinking then
Mind.GetThought("VS.NET")
If Mind.Feelings = Feel.FreakingROCKS then
Call KeepThingsRockin
End If
End If
CodeDoctor
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Am new to this. I have access to the DTS WIZ but cannot edit the saved package in SSE.
Going Mad!!!
Sudip
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SCE Cost
While I'm extremely impressed with the SCE product, I'm very concerned that this is just going to cost too much for the market its in. There are other tools that can do the same things for free or much cheaper than SCE.
SCE licensing info - http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/sce/howtobuy/default.mspx
As a the manageability practice manager at a consulting company, I don't think we can sell this. I'm also disapointed in the current limiting of the product. The 30 server and 500 client limits are just too small especially with the price point. I could sell it to customers at the current price with 75 servers and 1000 clients. Please don't reply with TOC/ROI buzz words because customers in this market don't care about that.
Thoughts?
Tim
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Hi Tim,
I wouldn't mind if the price was a bit lower but I still think it is ok. I'm not sure what other tools you compair with, but if you compair what you are paying ro a antivirussystem, I think SCE has an ok price!
As regards to the limits, I think it would be better if I have a total number of agents intead of x numbers of server and x number of clients. Some of my costumers have 100 servers but only 200 clients and but some have 12 servers and 700 clients!
Ot's not an answer, just some thoughts!
Björn Axéll - Advisec AB
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Good feedback Tim. I guess this is a matter of perception. We were really excited when we saw the pricing. If you compare to MOM 2005, for example.
MOM Workgroup as about $500 and could monitor 10 servers, and had no reporting
MOM 2005 Std Required purchasing MLs (OMLs they were called) for agent-managed machines at $350 or more after discounts.
And by comparison with SCE 2007, for $2,000, you get the console +
10 Servers MLs - That's a $1,000 in licensing
50 - workstation MLs - Thats another $1,000 in licensing
So it's like getting the console for FREE?
And on top of that you're getting monitoring, patch mgmt (okay, this was free, but tricked out in SCE), software deployment, inventory, reporting (reporting!), And if you check the Authoring space, you'll see the enterprise level monitoring functionality you have in OpsMgr 2007.
And do remember this product is targeted at the mid-market enterprise. At 1000 seats, you'd be looking at a large enterprise, where MS would point you to OM 2007 / SCCM 2007 / WSUS, as you're going to likely require some of the advanced features the enterprise level products anyway.
Definitely interested in any detail you can add to your conclusions on the pricing. Do you see a competitive offering that can deliver all these features more effectively for that price tag?
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Hey Pete,
I have been discussing this with some licensing folks and where I think they missed the boat with licensing was creating the new MLP license. Why not just use the same OML that is used for MOM? As you mentioned the new licensing is cheaper, so if I have purchased the more expense license why not let me use it with either server solution? It really comes down to Microsoft selling EAs to companies with over 250 users, but including licenses with the EA for products that they now say should only be used by companies with over 500 users (OMLs). They've kind of chucked those of us between 250 and 500 into licensing purgatory. Actually, they are forcing anyone with an EA (even someone with 250 licenses) to use SMS, MOM and WSUS even though SCE is a better fit. Otherwise we have to buy a whole new set of licenses for SCE and throw away all of our very expensive OML licenses that we already own. They need to come up with a tradeup or tradein program for companies with between 250 and 500 CALs.
Just my .02,
Tim
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Hi Tim,
I understand your concerns, but rest assured the pricing is based on quantitative data from exactly this segment as to what value they put on the feature set we're delivering with Essentials. I'm pretty confident that pricing will not be a problem for a majority in this segment and have received very positive feedback on pricing from the customers we've presented to.
The scale of Essentials is also based on quantitative research that shows us the 5-30 server/50-500 PC scale is exactly where we find the majority of IT generalists (system admins who are not specialized and perform a broad range of tasks), for which this product is designed.
As for the free tools/cheaper tools, in general they do not provide the integration, robust feature set or expert knowledge that comes with Essenials.
I hope this helps.
David
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Thanks David.
Hello Tim, David Mills is from our SCE marketing team and will be happy to follow-up on any questions you may have.
Regards,
Justin Incarnato
Community PM
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Thanks for the posts ... I understand the data you worked out for this but I'm explaining that we as a consulting company in the Washington DC area will have a hard time selling this. We have a basic product that we have installed at many different clients and we provide tiered monitoring services for these clients. At this point the SW cost for our clients is almost free and they just pay for our monitoring services. We also do MOM 2005 and now SCOM '07 which we sell to customer that want to have most monitoring done within there organization or have specific monitoring requirements that OM provides. The amount of monitoring is limited to what OM/SCE can provide but most customers in this segment only care about the basics.
As an x-MS employee that worked a great deal with OM, I want to convert our monitoring SW to SCE with a SCOM site for monitoring. I just can't tell customers that here is a 5-10k software cost and another 2-5k installation costs, that replaces something that only costs them monthly and the installation costs of SCE represent 4-6 months of monitoring cost to them. The customers in this segement tend to have support contract with consulting companies already and are looking for cost effect solutions for the smaller IT requirements but ROI calculations don't add up as the upfront costs are as much 12-18 months worth of normal support contacts which they'd have to pay.
The limits I kind of understand but I do believe you are on the low side for the DC area. Which might be because the smaller politicall organizations around DC tend to grow and shrink drasticly depending on who is in government(dem/rep) and overall funding. These organization tend to be at the SCE limits so they need something that can scale as the political winds blow. Just some information for you.
Thanks
Tim
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And if you sell folks on the systems mgmt features of the SCE platform, I just cannot see how that could be too expensive considering the mult-product alternatives customers would otherwise have to choose from.
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I don't disagree with the requirement to repurchase licenses (which I have to do as well) as SCE clearly brings a great deal of additional functionality I am willing to pay for. So if it means no trade in on MOM 2005 licenses, then that's a decision we each have to make.
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I also wanted to add that customers that bought MOM Workgroup Edition with Software Assurance, will get the rights to Essentials 2007. Additionally keep in mind that prices on our page our ERP, customers that purchase volume license will get a significative discount on this price.
Rene Garcia
Product Manager
Microsoft
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You can work around this limitation as a service provider scenario by simply deploying an agent from the NOC mgmt group (with cert auth) and if the customer wants visibility, providing a targeted role with Web Console access. Not perfect for sure from a mgmt or licensing perspective, but better than nothing.
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Thanks for the thoughts Tim and I will look into what you suggested, but as a manged service provider i have to be assured everything is licensed properly and im not sure if what your suggesting would be "legal" as far as licensing is concerned. I Really appreciate your response and effort to help! I spoke w/ a few other area service providers at our weekly conference this morning and they expressed the exact same frustration which is really sad because most that we are in contact with were fully planning on putting a big push for this product at release time and now most have decided to not even implement at all. I really think this product would revolutionize the MSP industry and become the industry standard for MSPs if we could fix a few minor issues w/ licensing. Please if anyone else feels strongly about this please voice your opinion. I'm not asking to give the software away for free or even change the pricing on it because i realize that a lot of hard work went into the development of the product. Just a little adjustment to the packaging / licensing so im not forced to purchase licenses for 50 workstains that i dont have, or 5 extra server licenses that i dont need. As stated by previous posts, no network is the same, some clients 10 servers and 30 workstations, some clients 2 servers and 200 workstations, so it looks like a lot of people will be forced to take extra licesnses that may not be needed.
One Disappointed Partner
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I work for a consulting company that does both full service consulting as well as managed services for the mid-market, so SCOM/SCE is seemingly what we've been waiting for. I do think that the 30 server license is going to be a little tight for some of our customers, but we might be able to get around that if you could answer me one question:
With WSUS getting rolled into SCE, can I have "non-SCE" clients get their updates from the SCE server? For example - If they have a dev/test environment, and don't really care about inventory, monitoring, notifications, etc. but do want the machines to get updated through WSUS, would that be possible without having to buy an SCE license? We are seeing more and more mid-market companies setup DR sites with hot/warm standby servers, along with full dev/test environments which can easily bring the server count up over 30. In most cases, we only need to monitor 30 servers or less, but we definitely need to manage patches for more.
As for the price, I think it seems ok. I'm pretty sure our current managed services package is much less expensive, but it's also filled with a lot of bugs and inadequecies. If the Microsoft combo can increase our level of service and delivery, I think our customers will be happy to take on the additional cost.
One last question - With the SCOM/SCE/MSP target, does the MSP have to add SCOM CALs when new customers are brought on with SCE?
Thanks.
Mike
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Rene,
I'm very glad to hear that regarding the licensing transition from MOM WE. Do you know if there is any plan to make it possible to upgrade from SCE licensing to SCCM/SCOM/WSUS licenses going forward as a company grows? I think that SCE is an awesome product and I really hope that Microsoft makes the licensing model flexible enough to allow a company to grow (or shrink) without having to "throw out" one set of licenses and purchase all new ones.
Thanks again,
Tim
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Thank you, have a good.
Todd
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Todd,
Tim hasn't been active since early May. If you have questions regarding the Remote Management area of SCE you might check the Remote Operations Manager forum at: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1738&SiteID=17 .
HTH,
Tim
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Editing an Existing Custom Field Type
A previous post detailed instructions on how to create custom fields in SharePoint, specifically with a custom field editor.
In all samples that I currently have seen (including the RegEx and USAddress examples on CodePlex), when editing an existing custom field type, the field properties are not set with their original values, but instead are prepopulated with the name of the field plus "Field value.".
As in the previous post, many of these problems can be attributed to the Field being recreated. When the field is first created, the SPField(SPFieldCollection, string, string) constructor is called, followed by the IFieldControl.OnSaveChange method. This works well, except for when the field is actually used. At that point, the SPField(SPFieldCollection, string) constructor is called, seeming to undo all the changes that were just made.
Built-in fields utilize the internal SPField.GetFieldAttributeValue(string) and SPField.SetFieldAttributeValue(string, string) methods to store and retrieve custom properties. Custom fields seem to have to resort to the CustomProperties getters and setters which, in the previous post, don't save their properties too well.
I'm posting this as a comment in this forum; if anyone has any information to shed in this matter, please post.
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Hi Brian.
Have you found a solution to this problem?
Thanks for sharing.
/Jakob
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Hi Brian,
Did you tried this applying this fix?? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932055
Hope it helps,
C. Marius
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Vista Hard Freeze
WDS on Windows Server 2003
I've been working on deploying images at the University of Kansas and thought I would share my experience here. I created a HOWTO on my spaces account, here is the URL to it:
http://jeffpatton.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B91550D5AEF34388!426.entry
If the link doesn't work, then you can click on the HOWTO category on the main page.
http://jeffpatton.spaces.live.com
Please leave me comments if I have missed or forgotten something, I'll be working on another file on using WDS, this one was more or less configuring the server under Windows 2003 and how to create a boot and capture image, as some of the stuff I've found seemed to be buried fairly deep in the documentation.
SMO & DMO FAQ
http://blogs.msdn.com/mwories/articles/smoindex.aspx
Comments, let me know!
Thanks,
Michiel
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HTH, jens Suessmeyer.
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Jens K. Suessmeyer
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I'm having the same issue - the only thing I can find says to install SQLServer 2000 and copy the headers over.
MS, anything yet?
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Please install the backward compatibility redist from the link that Jens mentioned already. It is working fine for me:
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I have just confirmed that the SQLServer 2005 BC pack does NOT install this header file (or a few others).
Again, I had to deploy SQLServer 2000 to get the header file.
Thank you.
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Hands-on workshop ILM 2007
4all networks is pleased to announce a new series of hands-on workshops about MS Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007.
These workshops take a full day and the following subjects will be covered:
- Introduction to Microsoft IDA (Identity and Access) Solutions
- Context: Typical project approach and how provisioning fits in a enterprise Identity and Access Management solution
- Microsoft context: AD, ADFS, RMS, ISA, IAG, ILM2007, Server 2008
- Typical project approach
- Requirements
- Installation (+ exercises)
- Configuring connectors (+ exercises)
- Advanced setup scenarios
- Adding workflow, RBAC and password reset self service with Omada
The new series of hands-on workshops is launched because of the huge success of the previous Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) Roadshow that 4all networks organised during 2005-2006.
The content of the training has also been updated as MIIS has now been replaced by ILM 2007. Additional content has also been added with regards to workflow, self service password reset, role based access control.
Currently the training dates are:
- Thursday, October 18th, 2007
- Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
- Thursday, November 29th, 2007
More dates can be added later.
For more information, availability and registration, please consult the 'Local Events' page on our website http://www.identitymanagement.be.
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Thanks Peter.
I'll be visiting one of those dates.
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Error processing Cube - The syntax for ',' is incorrect.
Hi guys! Could you help me with the next problem:
Failed to build the OLAP cubes. Error: Analysis Services session failed with the following error: Query (1, 10) Parser: The syntax for ',' is incorrect.
I have installed sql2005 sp2, but didn't get much
Pls. help
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If you have a new issue, please create a new thread rather than just replying to an old one. You are more likely to get an answer.
It sounds like there might possibly be an extra comma in your MDX script. It looks like it is at character 10 on the first line (that's what the 1,10 means)
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Top Ten - Most Common BDD 2007 issues - All should read :)
Top Ten - Most Common BDD 2007 issues
http://blogs.technet.com/benhunter/archive/2007/04/18/top-ten-most-common-bdd-2007-issues.aspx
Everyone should read this because - well most of the threads started here can be answered with these 10 issues
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*BUMP*
I am bumping this thread - because from the looks of it - Know one has been reading up on BDD before using it and asking questions.
Please read the docs and play with it before using it in a production environment...
I have still not used the DB portion yet, and just using the LTI interface to image in my environment - until I am 100% comfortible with the DB implimentation...
READ the DOCS and the FAQ, and the TOP TEN
-Dan
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FEATURE REQUEST: Ability to Disable Clickthrough Reports (Live Links) at the Report and Export Function Level
Please consider enhancing SQL 2005 Reporting Services to provide the ability to disable Clickthrough Reports (Live Links) at the Report and Export Function level. Today you can only enable or disable Clickthrough Reports at the View/Model Level for all Report Builder reports.
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Are you talking about the fact that when you export to an excel spreadsheet, the bad boy still tries to clickthrough to another report?
I agree, that has to go.
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me too :-(
Hidden Prompt Dialogs
Sharing and Discovery prompt dialogs, from sharing changes, tend to open behind the Network and Sharing Manager window, but have focus, giving the initial impression that the Network and Sharing Manager has locked up.
Clicking on the taskbar entry brings them to the foreground but they should already be in the foreground if they have focus.
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