WSUS breaks after applying KB2720211

After applying this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2720211 our WSUS broke down.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/e918a191-ef6d-4c4b-b83a-7a4ae20a5217/wsus-30-sp2-will-not-run-after-installing-update-2720211?forum=winserverwsus

If you come across this issue the above link may assist with fixing the issue.

"D/L offline 2720211 installer
change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Update Services\Server\Setup\wYukonInstalled from 1 to 0 
install update again 
reboot 
change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Update Services\Server\Setup\wYukonInstalled from 0 to 1 
reboot 
install update AGAIN"

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Systems Centre Endpoint Protection Exclusion Gotchas

http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenterpfe/archive/2012/11/29/system-center-2012-configuration-manager-antivirus-exclusions.aspx

Just be aware that if you use the inbuilt templates to configure SCEP exclusions the XML's assume that you have installed the products in their default locations.. I in our case we install most products elsewhere apart from the default installation directories.

It's easy enough to create a copy of the XML and use powershell or notepad's find and replace to update the XML to point to the correct locations.

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Top Console User not reporting in SCCM

Recently came across an issue where Top Console User was not being uploaded to SCCM

Fix:
Be aware if you configure any Advanced Security Policies in GPO for clients this will stop any simple Security policies settings from applying  to clients. Use one or the other not both as they don't like to co-exist.

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Get list of collections that have dynamic update enabled

The following powershell code will connect to your SCCM, export all the collections, and then select only those that had dynamically add new resources checked, then export to a CSV file.

gwmi sms_collection -computer SERVER -namespace root\sms\site_XXX |% {[wmi] $_.__Path}|select-object CollectionID,Name,RefreshType|where {$_.refreshtype -eq 6}| Export-csv c:\temp\SCCMcollections.csv -NoTypeInformation

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SSRS The attempt to connect to the report server failed

turns there was no closing tab in the web.config for  

I closed the section with

and then restarted SSRS and this fixed the issue.

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How to Disable and Move a list of computers in Active Directory

If you want to disable and move an object in powershell using the pipeline you can if the cmdlet you call supports the -Passthru property. This way you could make a single line powershell that would grab a list of objects, process those objects and then passthru the to the next pipeline.

get-content c:\temp\test.txt | % {Get-ADComputer $_ | Disable-ADaccount -PassThru | Move-ADObject -Targetpath "OU=xxx,,DC=DomainName,DC=COM"} 

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National Cyber Security Awareness Month

National Cyber Security Awareness Month:

'via Blog this'

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