Technet forums. Frequently Posted Questions and Answers. Following list of questions are from SCE 2. SCE 2. 01. 0 forums and answers applies to SCE 2. Document Owner Anshu Agrawal. Question 1 How can I create auditing rules in Essentials Question 2 How do I set up a remote console in a different domain or using local policyQuestion 3 How can I discover network devices to manage Question 4 Can I run both Essentials and WSUS in the same domain Question 5 Can I monitor a machine that is in a workgroup Question 6  My managed computers installed successfully, but still report a status of unknown in the computer space. How can I get them to contact Question 7 How can I create a dynamic deployment group Question 8 I get an error when creating software packages saying verification failed. How do I resolve the issue Question 9 What would prompt an update to go in Unknown category in updates space overviews pageQuestion 1. What steps are required to uninstall Essentials from server A and reinstall on server B on same domain Question 1. Is it possible to upgrade from SQL Express to SQL standard without reinstalling Essentials Question 1. Can Essentials ask for the location of the VM files on the destination during the migration process Question 1. Can a package be redeployed Question 1. If we disable auto select would it uncheck previously selected products Question 1. Where can I find deployment guide of Essentials 2. Question 1. 6 What is the data retention schedule for reporting in Essentials Question 1. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Pro Final Dvd Iso PlayerWelcome to the SMS 2003 forum. As you have heard, Microsoft is moving from the public newsgroups to forums. This is the one location for you to ask questions on SMS 2003. Torrentz domain names are for sale. Send an offer to contactinventoris. F1 2008 Game For Pc. Training Programs and Courses Training, Certification, SelfHelp and Career Training. How can you send files to Microsoft for the Essentials team to review Question 1. How can you verify if the computer agent is contactable via network Question 1. What if the computer discovery fails for an agent box Question 2. How can you choose installation path for SQL in Essentials installation process Question 2. Why does running the automatic approval rule for all computers result in unapproved updates Question 2. Can third party updates be approved by auto approval featureQuestion 2. What if you see monitoring. Host. exe process consuming a lot of CPU Question 2. How to troubleshoot if windows update WU and Essentials reports different status for updates Question 2. What are the locations to find common logs to troubleshoot issues in Essentials Question 1 How can I create auditing rules in Essentials Answer In Essentials, you can create custom rules that collect events from the security log. Go to Authoring space Management Pack objects select Rules Create a rule Alert Generating RulesEvent BasedNT Event Log. Select the Essentials group you want to collect events from. To collect from all computers, select the Agent group. Select the Security Log to collect events from. Next you build the Filter Expression. The Source will be Security and the Event ID will be the security event you are interested in, for example event 6. Audit Policy Changed. Finally, configure the alert with title and description to match the event, such as Audit Policy was changed. You need to make sure that auditing for the type of event you want to capture is turned on at the domain group policy or local security policy level, otherwise the security events wont be written to the log for Essentials to see them. Question 2 How do I set up a remote console in a different domain or using local policy Answer When in the same domain, the certificates used to connect to Essentials are generally available from the group policy, but for a different domain or local policy, the certificates require manual import on the UI machine. The two certificates are available on the Essentials server in the install directory folder titled Certificates. The WSUSSSLCert. The WSUSCode. Signing. Cert. cer should be imported into the local computers trusted root authority, third party publishers and third party root certification authority stores. Question 3 How can I discover network devices to manage Answer To discover network devices, launch the same wizard used to discover computers it appears in the administration space of the splash page in Computer and device section with the name Add new Computer and devices. In the Discovery type page, chose network devices. Question 4 Can I run both Essentials and WSUS in the same domain Answer Individual machines can only report to one WSUS server. Those machines managed by Essentials should only report to the Essentials server for updates, although users are not prohibited from contacting Microsoft update directly by default. If not all machines in the domain report to the Essentials server, a second Essentials server can be used to manage just those machines not included in Essentials. If the current environment is running a WSUS 3. Essentials server and retain the settings and data currently stored. Question 5 Can I monitor a machine that is in a workgroup Answer Yes. You will require two certificates from a trusted authority for both the Essentials server and the new manual agent. For more information on how to create the appropriate certificates, see http technet. To import the Essentials servers certificate on the server machine, use the install directorytoolsMOMCert. Import. exe tool. Use the System Center Essentials 2. You will need the two certificates from the install directory of SCE in a folder called certificates WSUSSSLCert. WSUSCode. Signing. Cert. cer, as well as the PFX certificate from the trusted authority and the trusted authority. Question 6  My managed computers installed successfully, but still report a status of unknown in the computer space. How can I get them to contact Answer  The out of box experience wizard or configure product features wizard must have been run before computers will report status in this section. If using group policy, the settings may take some time to update before the clients will contact. If using local policy, the configure product features wizard must be run before agent deployment. If these steps have been completed successfully, check one of the machines that is reporting the unknown inventory by running the rsop. Computer ConfigurationAdministrative SettingsWindows ComponentsWindows UpdateSpecify intranet Microsoft updates location should point to https sceserver. If this is not the case, check that the computer is a member of the AD security group SCE Managed Computers SCESERVERMG and if so, try relogging into the machine or rebooting to pick up the group membership. If the correct server is reported, check the WINDIRWindows. Update. log to see if any errors are occurring with contacting the Essentials server. As always, if the answer is not clear, these forums are here to help  Including the log file information in your post will aid in quick answer. RIP, Microsoft Paint. Palm Os 5.2. MS Paint, the first app you used for editing images, will probably be killed off in future updates of Windows 1. Paint 3. D. Microsoft lists the 3. Windows 1. 0s next autumn update, a little X marking the end of an era. The app is certainly a relic, from a time when the casual computer user couldnt crack open Photoshop or Skitch or Pixelmator or thousands of web apps. MS Paint cant save image components as layers or vectors its for making flat static images only. It doesnt smooth lines or guess at your best intentions. It does what you tell it and nothing more, faithfully representing the herky jerky motion of drawing freehand with a computer mouse. Its from a time before touch, a time before trackpads. As more sophisticated options appeared, Paints janky aesthetic became a conscious choice. Paint became the metonym for that aesthetic, even if an image was actually created in another app. TV Tropes lists major limitations that came to define a certain look the wobbly freehand lines, awkward color handling, and inappropriate export settings that give Paint its distinctive look. In 2. 01. 4, Gawkers Sam Biddle noted Paints influence on conspiracy theory images, calling the form Chart Brut. In amateur detectives attempts at identifying the Boston Marathon bombers, the simplicity and jaggedness of Paint evokes the crazy wall aesthetic of red string and scribbled notes, apparently without irony. The same year, internet historian Patrick Davison explored Paints influence on the last decade of meme culture, particularly Rage Comics. The outsider art aesthetic feels appropriate to the relatable everyday content, and makes the art form unthreatening. Of course, Paint offered a few features to smooth things out, like the circle and line tools and the fill tool, all used in the stoner comics of the early 1. Crucially, those circles still had jagged curves. The bright colors of stoner comics are flat, as MS Paint didnt support gradients without an elaborate hack. Contrast those pixellated lines with the slick, stylish face from this art tutorial This slickness is built into Paints successor, Paint 3. D. From the moment you start sketching, Paint 3. D smooths out your art. It also supports automatic selection tools and content aware fill to rival Photoshops. By automatically improving art, Paint 3. D hides the process behind the image. Paints sloppiness is probably why rage comics got so popular. Looking at a rage comic, you can tell exactly how it was drawn, and how you might draw one yourself. By delivering exactly what the artist draws, MS Paint forms an image that the viewer can mentally reverse engineer and imitate. Unless you go absolutely nuts with it. Reddit user Toweringhorizon painstakingly assembled the drawing To a Little Radio using MS Paint tools like the oil brush, stretching the medium while maintaining a pixelated look. Its one of the top submissions to MS Paint subreddit, a beautiful collaborative art gallery. Scrolling through this art feels like flipping through the sketchbook of the most artistic kid in high school. Theres an accepted roughness, a desired minimalism. For example, the exquisite raindrops in the work above are reflected in a flat, featureless tabletop. Like a transistor radio, Paint might be showing its age, but this tenacious little gadget should not be underestimated. To a Little Radio doesnt even come close to testing Paints limits. As we say goodbye to the app that shaped an era, let us watch this bizarrely soundtracked time lapse of drawing Santa Claus in MS Paint on Windows 7 over the course of 5. We can only believe this is real because faking it would be even harder.