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Check Your Site Before You
Wreck Your Site
Reed G Porter, IT Pioneer
25 January 2012
Moderated by:
Sponsored by:
Agenda
• Welcome: Ron Crumbaker, CTO, myITforum
• Overview: BDNA & myITforum
• Reed Porter
– Check Your Site Before You Wreck Your Site
• Wrap Up: Rod Trent, CEO, myITforum
Hangouts & Forums
• myITforum SCCM GURU webcast
live forum
http://myITforum.com/SCCMguru
• #sccmguru hashtag on twitter
myITforum
Ron Crumbaker, CTO, myITforum
• All things “System Center”
• Since 1999
• Large and growing community (over
120,000 visitors a day)
• Huge storehouse of System Center
knowledge
• Noobies to experts
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About Reed
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Reed launched his career during the days of the “sneaker net”
Now drives strategic initiatives via the cloud, remotely managing everything
from handheld devices to server farms
Currently a Desktop Engineer at a managed-services company, responsible for
the SCCM infrastructure for three clients and 165 SCCM servers servicing
45,000 clients
BSBA in Computer Information Systems from University of Central Missouri
Certifications for Altiris 6.0 (ACE), Vista Business Desktop Deployment (MCTS),
and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (MCTS)
An author on products for Microsoft, co-founder of the Kansas City Area SMUG,
presented at the 2005 MMS
Prolific blogger at myITforum, host of MyOTRadio, an active participant on the
myITforum forums and hosts the official BDNA-myITforum SCCM GURU
Webcast ‘hangouts’
Find Reed here:
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/community/members/rporter/
My Legacy
• Systems Management 2.0
– 2000 going to Kansas City
– Installed but
neglected
– 50%
– No Confidence
– Fear
How to Wreck Your Site
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Install with defaults
Not Respected
Not Checked
Not Maintained
= Wrecked
How to Check Your Site
• All Site Servers
– Performance Monitor
• % Processor ~ 80% or less
• Disk Queue
• Less than 2 x Spindles
• Memory
– Less than 70% committed bytes
– 50 MB or more available
– Minimal cache/page faults
– Logs
• OS Event Logs
• Trace32
• Finding Errors
• Not really an Error?
Photo by Shonk http://www.flickr.com/photos/shonk/418180402/
Trace32
Did you click ‘No’
when it asked you if
you wanted Trace32
to be your default
log viewer?
Set it back:
Trace32 (cont.)
Trace32 (cont. 2)
Logs Pro Tip
Use Explorer
full text search
for ‘Error’
Pro Tip (Cont.)
Then
Sort by date
Nothing to see here?
Quiz
What does the “T” in Microsoft Solution
Accelerator MDT stand for?
A. Technologies
B. Toolkit
C. Time
D. Transform
E. Freebird
Other Site Server Checks
• Inboxes
– Backlogs often mean
trouble
• IIS Log files
• Disk Space
• Enough for now
and the future
• Windows 7/Office
2012
• Free Report….
Photo courtesy Eugene Peretz
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peretzpup/1660297968/
Site Systems Drive Space
Site Drive Space Check
Drive Space SQL
Quiz
According to Wally Mead, what is the
best tool for Log Viewing, Code Edits,
and MOF edits?
A. Trace32
B. Trace64
C. Notepad
D. Notepad++
E. Freebird
More Checks?
• SSL/Certificate
– Current? Expire soon?
• Database
– DBCC CheckDB
• Disk Queue Length
– Benchmark and monitor
– numbers > than 2X Spindles = BAD
• Status Messages and Queries
Status Message Check
Display Interval
Have you tried
turning it off
and
back on again?
Status Messages
Status Messages
Status Messages
Status Message Viewer
Status Message Queries
Status Message Queries
Status Message Queries
Status Message Viewer
Status Message Query
Properties
Status Message Query WQL
Quiz
What is this Star Trek character’s
middle Name?
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B.
C.
D.
E.
Harry
Tiberius
Fenster
Fenton
Freebird
Site Maintenance
• Weekly-Monthly Tasks
– Ensure site maintenance tasks are
scheduled and running
– Delete old files
• IIS Logs
• SCCM\inboxes\dataldr.box\BADMIFS
– Delete expired advertisements
– Delete collections no longer needed
Site Maintenance (cont.)
– Ensure backups have run
• Database, Site, Server, etc.
• Test your backups yearly
– Defrag
• Disks
• DB + Rebuild indexes
– Status Filter Rules
• Can I reduce unnecessary network
traffic?
– http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2011/12/06/increasesccm-performance-with-status-filter-rules/
Top Resources
• Email lists
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/support/email-lists/
• Forums
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/support/forums/
• Community Groups
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/groups/
Top Resources
• Instruction
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/support/tv/
• MVPs – most of which participate at
myITforum
• Microsoft Management Summit
http://www.mms-2011.com/
Wrap Up
Next SCCM GURU Webcast:
• Wednesday, February 15, 2012
• Sherry Kissinger, mofmaster
 www.bdna.com/sccm-guru
SCCM GURU Swag Store
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SCCM GURU
Webcast t-shirt
instructions at
end of this
presentation
SCCM GURU iTunes Podcasts
SCCM Guru Webcast Series under Technology – Software How-To
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SCCM GURU YouTube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/BDNAcorp
SCCM GURU Community Group
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/groups/bdna/
BDNA Normalize CM Open Beta
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/groups/bdna-normalize-cm/
Thanks for attending!
To thank you for participating in our SCCM
GURU webcast, we’d like to offer EVERYONE
on the webcast a super cool SCCM GURU
Webcast t-shirt. Please register here:
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www.bdna.com/reed
Questions, Contact Info
For more information…
BDNA Normalize for ConfigMgr
http://sccm.bdna.com
[email protected]
myITforum
Rod Trent
[email protected]
+1 (513) 217-7122
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