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Check Your Site Before You Wreck Your Site

Check Your Site Before You Wreck Your Site. Reed G Porter, IT Pioneer 25 January 2012. 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.

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Check Your Site Before You Wreck Your Site

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

  2. 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

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

  4. 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

  5. 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.com • Download trial version, free for 60 days • Win a pass to MMS 2012! Pradeep Bhanot Product Marketing BDNA Normalize for ConfigMgr™

  6. About Reed • 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/

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

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

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

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

  11. Trace32 (cont.)

  12. Trace32 (cont. 2)

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

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

  15. Nothing to see here?

  16. Quiz What does the “T” in Microsoft Solution Accelerator MDT stand for? • Technologies • Toolkit • Time • Transform • Freebird

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

  18. Site Systems Drive Space

  19. Site Drive Space Check

  20. Drive Space SQL

  21. Quiz According to Wally Mead, what is the best tool for Log Viewing, Code Edits, and MOF edits? • Trace32 • Trace64 • Notepad • Notepad++ • Freebird

  22. 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

  23. Status Message Check

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

  25. Status Messages

  26. Status Messages

  27. Status Messages

  28. Status Message Viewer

  29. Status Message Queries

  30. Status Message Queries

  31. Status Message Queries

  32. Status Message Viewer

  33. Status Message Query Properties

  34. Status Message Query WQL

  35. Quiz What is this Star Trek character’s middle Name? Harry Tiberius Fenster Fenton Freebird

  36. 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

  37. 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/increase-sccm-performance-with-status-filter-rules/

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

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

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

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

  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. 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:  www.bdna.com/reed

  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

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