while i was at the mvp summit, i was talking to a friend and fellow mvp, rory mccaw. he made mention that he discovered in windows server 2003, that net time was a deprecated command. he came across this when he found he was having an extremely difficult time getting the server to accept the time sync sources. minasi's latest post (issue #52) reminded me of this - especially since minasi himself is a mvp. i guess if he had been in that conversation, he'd have known this too.
UPDATE: john marcum sent me a kind email to let me know about a problem he ran into with preloadpkgonsite.exe in the new SCCM Toolkit V2 where under certain conditions, packages will not uncompress. if you are using the v2 toolkit, PLEASE read this blog post before proceeding. here’s a scenario that came up on the mssms@lists.myitforum.com mailing list. when confronted with a situation of large packages and wan links, it’s generally best to get the data to the other location without going over the wire. in this case, 75gb. :/ the “how” you get the files there is really not the most important thing to worry about. once they’re there and moved to the appropriate location, preloadpkgonsite.exe is required to install the compressed source files. once done, a status message goes back to the parent server which should stop the upstream server from copying the package source files over the wan to the child site. anyway, if it’s a relatively small amount of packages, you can
Minasi is a tool
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