http://www.myITforum.com/absolutevc/?v=1316
Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool
Ever have a performance problem, but don't know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter log (any known format) and analyzes it using complex, but known thresholds (provided). The tool generates an HTML based report which graphically charts important performance counters and throws alerts when thresholds are exceeded. The thresholds are originally based on thresholds defined by the Microsoft product teams and members of Microsoft support, but continue to be expanded by this ongoing project. This tool is not a replacement of traditional performance analysis, but it automates the analysis of performance counter logs enough to save you time. This is a VBScript and requires Microsoft LogParser (free download).
MSSQL update, KB948109, causes ConfigMgr 2007 problems
Charles Wastell reports the problem and the fix:
http://windowssystemspecialist.blogspot.com/2008/07/sccm-2007-kb948109.html
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Upgrading SMS 2003 sp2 to SQL 2005
Brian Mason has a great checklist available in the forums if you are tasked with doing this.
http://www.myitforum.com/forums/m_129606/mpage_1/key_sql%252C2005%252Cchecklist/tm.htm#155415
Thanks to John Nelson for bringing this to my attention by posting it to the SMS/ConfigMgr email discussion list.
Jeff Gilbert also has some great info on his myITforum.com blog: