Moderated by:Sponsored by: Check Your Site Before You Wreck Your Site Reed G Porter, IT Pioneer 25 January 2012

Welcome: Ron Crumbaker, CTO, myITforum Overview: BDNA & myITforum Reed Porter –Check Your Site Before You Wreck Your Site Wrap Up: Rod Trent, CEO, myITforum Agenda

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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: About Reed

Systems Management 2.0 –2000 going to Kansas City –Installed but neglected –50% –No Confidence –Fear My Legacy

Install with defaults Not Respected Not Checked Not Maintained = Wrecked How to Wreck 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? How to Check Your Site Photo by Shonk

Did you click ‘No’ when it asked you if you wanted Trace32 to be your default log viewer? Set it back: Trace32

Trace32 (cont.)

Trace32 (cont. 2)

Use Explorer full text search for ‘Error’ Logs Pro Tip

Then Sort by date Pro Tip (Cont.)

Nothing to see here?

What does the “T” in Microsoft Solution Accelerator MDT stand for? A.Technologies B.Toolkit C.Time D.Transform E.Freebird Quiz

Inboxes –Backlogs often mean trouble IIS Log files Disk Space Enough for now and the future Windows 7/Office 2012 Free Report…. Other Site Server Checks Photo courtesy Eugene Peretz

Site Systems Drive Space

Site Drive Space Check

Drive Space SQL

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 Quiz

SSL/Certificate –Current? Expire soon? Database –DBCC CheckDB Disk Queue Length –Benchmark and monitor –numbers > than 2X Spindles = BAD Status Messages and Queries More Checks?

Status Message Check

Display Interval Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Status Messages

Status Message Viewer

Status Message Queries

Status Message Viewer

Status Message Query Properties

Status Message Query WQL

What is this Star Trek character’s middle Name? Quiz A.Harry B.Tiberius C.Fenster D.Fenton E.Freebird

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

–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? – sccm-performance-with-status-filter-rules/ sccm-performance-with-status-filter-rules/ Site Maintenance (cont.)

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Next SCCM GURU Webcast: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 Sherry Kissinger, mofmaster  Wrap Up

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