RE: [mssms] Upgrading Config Mgr

2017-12-19 Thread Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
Sorry to interrupt the hijack :P, but a quick question on my original question Do you guys wait any real amount of time between updating the primary site, and the secondary sites? Or do you update the secondaries as soon as the primary is complete? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

[mssms] RE: OT Powershell & Laps

2017-12-19 Thread Jerousek, Jeff
These questions are impossible to answer without knowing how you're assigning the $computer variable, but do a $computer | get-member And make sure it's the string you think it is. Thanks, Jeff Jerousek -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [mssms] Upgrading Config Mgr

2017-12-19 Thread John Marcum
Echoing some of the comment below I'd like to say that the PFE may say it's a "best practice" but I'd challenge him to provide some official documentation that states that. I'd also ask for references for the PFE, I've had some bad experiences with Microsoft PFE's who claim to be experts in

[mssms] OT Powershell & Laps

2017-12-19 Thread Stuart Watret
Anyone know why this happens? Laps has some commandlets If I try Get-AdmPwdPassword -Computername Sam1 its fine. if i use a variable for the comp name like this, Get-AdmPwdPassword -Computername $Computer I get ‘URI formats are not supported’ The computer name has no spaces - it’s very

RE: [mssms] Upgrading Config Mgr

2017-12-19 Thread Robert Spinelli
You really should ask again for 2nd opinion / clarification why this needs to be done. If you doing months of work for something you don’t need to do and I was the SCCM team I would be pretty unhappy. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of

RE: [mssms] Upgrading Config Mgr

2017-12-19 Thread Marable, Mike
The SCCM team worked with our TAM to get an SCCM PFE to come up with the safest solution for getting off of this cluster. Trust me, I’m watching a train of SCCM releases roll by with numerous features I would love to take advantage of. But I’m not on the SCCM architect team, so my OSD

RE: [mssms] Upgrading Config Mgr

2017-12-19 Thread Dam, Bryan
Yea, we’ve just done that twice in the last two months to get to SQL 2016 without any problems on the ConfigMan side of things. I mean … what’s your disaster recovery plan if you can’t reliably restore the database to a new server? Bryan From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com

RE: [mssms] Upgrading Config Mgr

2017-12-19 Thread Jason Sandys
I don’t your PFE and I don’t know all of the details involved here, but based on what has been written below, no way. Also, be skeptical of anyone who simply says “best practice” as that typically implies they don’t actually know any technical details and are blindly following some generic

RE: [mssms] Upgrading Config Mgr

2017-12-19 Thread Robert Spinelli
Yeah, this seems weird to me. Full disclosure I haven’t done much with SQL clusters and SCCM so maybe there is something I’m missing. I know if you want to use another SQL server for SCCM you can perform a site reset and use the option to point to a new SQL server (I’ve done this in the past