in case you missed it, justin harter posted a fix on his blog for the availability management pack which, out of the box, does not generate any reports. click the link above to check it out.
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
I added all computers group to the toplevel of the Availability rule group, instead of in every child-group.
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the problem was that the child groups have the associations. they don't need any altering. it's the parent group that needs the computer groups in there. it's because of the way the dts job was written. it's looking for a specific guid.
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