Matt Broadstock

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• Active Directory
• Scripting - VBScript
• SMSUtils
• Web

• MOF re-compiling time

  I got a question from our SMS admin today on why some reports were not working properly. They were only returning a very small number of records when there should have been a LOT more. After some digging, I was able to determine that some custom MOF changes... Posted Sep 13 2006, 05:21 PM by Matt Broadstock with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: SMS

• Great article on SMS boundaries

  I was trying to explain how SMS boundaries work to my current client after they ran into some issues due to some misconfiguration when I found this article from Technet Magazine. It is short and sweet and goes over just about everything you need to know... Posted Aug 14 2006, 10:42 AM by Matt Broadstock with | with no comments Filed under: SMS

• Yet another unfixed SMS bug

  We recently ran into a bug while doing some cleanup of old packages/programs in SMS. It seems that the developers didn't use a restrictive enough query to determine what advertisements a program is tied to when you use the wizard to delete a program.... Posted May 26 2006, 12:37 PM by Matt Broadstock with | with no comments Filed under: SMS

• Fun with dotnetnuke

  Welp, I'm in the process of moving my business website (www.smsutils.com) to a new web provider and upgrading from DNN 2.1.1 to DNN 4.0.2. Unfortunately they weren't able to perform an upgrade so I've been spending a lot of time rebuilding the site from... Posted Feb 03 2006, 02:58 AM by Matt Broadstock with | with no comments Filed under: Active Directory, SMS, Scripting - VBScript, Web, SMSUtils

• Utility to build Groups and Collections for SMS

  I posted a while back on this but I have a production version done now. This utility is really handy for creating groups that you can tie to SMS Collections as query rules. The company that I am at now has all of their departments broken down into “Entities... Posted Jan 01 2006, 11:05 PM by Matt Broadstock with | with no comments Filed under: SMS, Scripting - VBScript

• Creating an Exclusion query/collection in SMS

  Some people may already know about this but I ran into it for the first time and thought it was interesting. We needed to create a collection in SMS that excluded all resources that were in a specific group in AD. Well, the obvious way to pull it off... Posted Jan 01 2006, 11:04 PM by Matt Broadstock with | with no comments Filed under: SMS