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Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) for Configuration Manager is now available as a hotfix download via KB 2780664 . In addition to several new fixes, this latest update includes all fixes previously released under Cumulative Update 1 . Note that all of the items addressed in both CU1 and CU2 will be included...

If you are a Configuration Manager 2007 customer, we recognize you might have concerns about the impact of recent changes to Microsoft Update. These changes were introduced by either the application of the WSUS update KB 2734608 , or by back-end Microsoft Update processes. For many Configuration Manager...

With the release of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, the Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering team has moved to a new servicing model for product updates. Instead of individual hotfixes, there will be regularly released cumulative updates. This new approach will reduce confusion about...

[ Brian Huneycutt provides today’s blog post] An issue with the client patch process was recently discovered, which might lead to Configuration Manager 2007 R3 clients failing to load power policy. Affected clients are those that have applied the Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 prerequisite...

[Today's post is provided by Chaohao Xu .] If Windows hotfix KB974571 is installed on a Windows 7 reference image, then it is highly likely that you would see the following log entries in smsts.log when deploying this image to an existing client. Notice that because the client certificates were not...

[Today's post is provided by Yvette O'Meally ] The Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering team has re-released a number of Configuration Manager SP1 hotfixes due to a problem with the hotfix installer's ability to detect Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2. This will cause Configuration...

[Today's post is provided by Brian Huneycutt ] There has been some confusion lately over a little known feature in Configuration Manager 2007: the ability to automatically apply hotfixes to the client during initial install by creating a ClientPatch folder on the site server. As it turns out, this...