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

2. 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

3. myITforum SCCM GURU webcast live forum http://myITforum.com/SCCMguru http://myITforum.com/SCCMguru #sccmguru hashtag on twitter Hangouts & Forums

4. 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 myITforum

5. BDNA Normalize for ConfigMgr™ Pradeep Bhanot Product Marketing BDNA Normalize for ConfigMgr™ NEW PRODUCT: BDNA Normalize CM Extracts ConfigMgr inventory data New native classes to use in console Create queries, collections and reports Demo on website: http://sccm.bdna.comhttp://sccm.bdna.com Download trial version, free for 60 days Win a pass to MMS 2012!

6. 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/ http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/community/members/rporter/ About Reed

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

8. Install with defaults Not Respected Not Checked Not Maintained = Wrecked How to Wreck Your Site

9. 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 http://www.flickr.com/photos/shonk/418180402/http://www.flickr.com/photos/shonk/418180402/

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

11. Trace32 (cont.)

12. Trace32 (cont. 2)

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

14. Then Sort by date Pro Tip (Cont.)

15. Nothing to see here?

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

17. 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 http://www.flickr.com/photos/peretzpup/1660297968/http://www.flickr.com/photos/peretzpup/1660297968/

18. Site Systems Drive Space

19. Site Drive Space Check

20. Drive Space SQL

21. 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

22. 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?

23. Status Message Check

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

25. Status Messages

28. Status Message Viewer

29. Status Message Queries

32. Status Message Viewer

33. Status Message Query Properties

34. Status Message Query WQL

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

36. 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

37. –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/increase- sccm-performance-with-status-filter-rules/http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2011/12/06/increase- sccm-performance-with-status-filter-rules/ Site Maintenance (cont.)

38. Email lists http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/support/email-lists/ http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/support/email-lists/ Forums http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/support/forums/ http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/support/forums/ Community Groups http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/groups/ http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/groups/ Top Resources

39. Instruction http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/support/tv/ http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/support/tv/ MVPs – most of which participate at myITforum Microsoft Management Summit http://www.mms-2011.com/ http://www.mms-2011.com/ Top Resources

40. Next SCCM GURU Webcast: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 Sherry Kissinger, mofmaster  www.bdna.com/sccm-guru Wrap Up

41. SCCM GURU Swag Store http://www.cafepress.com/BDNA SCCM GURU Webcast t-shirt instructions at end of this presentation

42. SCCM GURU iTunes Podcasts http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sccm-guru-webcast-series/id491938468 SCCM Guru Webcast Series under Technology – Software How-To

43. SCCM GURU YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/BDNAcorp

44. SCCM GURU Community Group http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/groups/bdna/

45. BDNA Normalize CM Open Beta http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/groups/bdna-normalize-cm/

46. 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:  www.bdna.com/reed Thanks for attending!

47. Questions, Contact Info For more information… BDNA Normalize for ConfigMgr http://sccm.bdna.com sccm@bdna.com myITforum Rod Trent rodtrent@myitforum.com +1 (513) 217-7122

48. SiteDrivesCheck.sql