Moving WSUS update content directory on your Essentials 2007 server

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Here’s a good question that came up recently:

Q: How can I move the WSUS content directory to another drive on my Essentials 2007 server?

A: You can use the wsusutil.exe tool to make it. The tool is in %programfiles%\update services\tools on SCE server. The syntax is the following:

Wsusutil.exe movecontent g:\new_sce <log file path>

If you need to move the folders, but not the content, you can add the –skipcopy switch.

Incidentally, wsusmove.log is the logfile for the operation

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Rebuilding your Essentials server without losing WSUS settings

Here’s a good question that came up in the Essentials Support Forum Recently.

Question: How can I rebuild my Essentials 2007 Server without losing my WSUS approvals?

Answer: Uninstalling SCE 2007 will also uninstall the WSUS 3.0 instance that is installed with it. However, you can choose to retain the updates when running uninstall wizard. As for your WSUS configuration, you can export the configuration to an xml file with the wsusmigrationexport.exe and wsusmigrationimport.exe tools.

At a high level, you’ll basically

1. Export your WSUS approvals to an xml file with  wsusmigrationexport.exe
2. Uninstall Essentials (and thus WSUS), retaining your updates that have been downloaded.
3. Install WSUS 3.0 on your Essentials Server.
4. Import the  xml settings file into WSUS with wsusmigrationimport.exe
5. Reinstall Essential.

Download this tool along with WSUS 3.0 API samples at the URL below.

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=117680

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Announcing the System Center Essentials Technology Adoption Program

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This announcement is to alert you that the next version of System Center Essentials Technology Adoption Program (TAP) is now accepting nominations.
Do you want to be part of making the next generation of the System Center Essentials product great?  If you are a responsible for managing the IT assets and services for a midsized business and have a passion for providing feedback, you could be a great candidate for our Technology Adoption Program (TAP).  We view our TAP program as one of the most important investments we make as a product team.  We are very selective in which customers we invite to participate and we intend is to partner very closely with you.  Our goal is to develop a mutually beneficial and long term relationship with you to enable building the next version of the System Center Essentials product that is designed to meet your needs to the best of our abilities.

For more information and to nominate yourself for the TAP please click this link.
Thank you!  The System Center Essentials Team.

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SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit

The SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit helps you manage Microsoft® SharePoint® environments of all sizes with two new management packs for System Center Operations Manager 2007:

* Windows® SharePoint Services 3.0 Management Pack
* Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Management Pack


These packs monitor the health state of the components in your SharePoint environment that affect performance and availability. When there is an issue that may cause service or performance degradation, Operations Manager 2007 uses the management packs to detect the issue, alert you to its existence, and facilitate diagnosis and corrective actions.

The management packs monitor:

* Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 related services (Timer, Tracing and Search)
* Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 related Events
* Web server applications such as Internet Information Services (IIS)
* IIS-related Events
* Microsoft SQL Server® database-related events
* WSS Server performance



The SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit Management Packs have been rewritten from the ground up to take advantage of the latest features of System Center Operations Manager 2007. Major improvements from previous packs include:

* Extended rules
* New and improved reports
* Additional actions
* New views
* Elimination of backward compatibility dependencies
* Increased reliability
* Noise reduction through tuning and event suppression
* Thoroughly tested compatibility of management packs with:
o System Center Operations Manager 2007
o System Center Essentials
o Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1