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Missing Default Reports in SMS 2003

If you are missing the default reports that should be installed on an SMS 2003 Reporting Point you may need to do the following:

Replace REPLACESITECODE in the _smsrpt.mof file (usually found at C:\SMS\bin\i386) with your site code.

From a command prompt run:  mofcomp _smsrpt.mof

SMS 2003 R2 comes with 150+ pre-built reports.

Understanding Exchange Server 2007 Server Roles

Exchange 2007 introduces a new Exchange term: “Server Role”. Server role is a logical concept used to organize Exchange 2007 services and features across one or more servers. While Exchange 2003 provided primitive server roles called BackEnd server and FrontEnd server, Exchange 2007 has more granular divisions.

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Misconfigured Status for WMI Services

If N-Able is reporting Misconfigured for WMI services (Active Directory, Exchange Services, etc.) with a similar error message to:

201 NAWMIConnection::QueryMethod: Invalid class name. Machine name: 172.17.232.10. Namespace: root\cimv2. WQL string: Select LDAPBindTime, LDAPSuccessfulBindsPersec, LDAPWritesPersec, LDAPUDPoperationsPersec, LDAPActiveThreads, LDAPClientSessions, DRAInboundObjectUpdatesRemaininginPacket, DRAPendingReplicationSynchronizations from Win32_PerfRawData_NTDS_NTDS. Error code = 0x80041010.

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