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We’ve been getting a few support calls regarding an issue with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and the recently released Windows Management Framework 3.0 update KB2506143 . Management points that are collocated with the client are experiencing failures because of an incorrect client health...

If you use the Import Application Wizard and see the error message dialog box in the following screenshot that says “Cannot find any application in the specified file to import”, it might be because of one of these reasons: The zip file that you selected is corrupt. The zip file...

The Configuration Manager console has been greatly improved in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, which enhances its usability. In addition to improvements in performance and layout, the console now supports a quicker way to monitor the status of distribution point site system roles. Using...

You might see content mismatch warnings in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager when content validation runs and determines that there is a discrepancy between the expected list of packages in WMI on the distribution point and the packages in the content library. In this scenario, the distribution...

[Today's post comes from Doug Eby ] The SuperFlow for Configuring Software Updates and the Software Update Deployment SuperFlow have been updated and are now available for download at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=183297 . These updates were minor design changes (no content changes) and...

The Configuration Manager writing team is very excited to announce the release of the following SuperFlows: Software Updates Synchronization SuperFlow: Provides the detailed dataflow for the software updates synchronization process, additional resources related to software updates synchronization...

[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...

[A quick AMT troubleshooting post from Carol Bailey ] It's recently come to our attention that the out of band management console that is used to connect to AMT-based computers has a problem running on Windows XP SP2. We're in the process of updating our Supported Configurations documentation for...

[Today's Post has been contributed by Brian Huneycutt ] The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) subsystem has evolved over time to become a key dependency for many applications, Configuration Manager being one of them. We've been intertwined since the .698 build of WMI shipped with Systems Management...

[Today’s post is provided by Ben Yim ] A common client deployment issue that I’ve seen over the years involves running ccmsetup as a service. In most cases running ccmsetup as a service should be fine. However, there are scenarios where doing so will have some unintended consequences, which will in...

[Post contributed by Carol Bailey ] Thanks to a recent Configuration Manager TechNet forum posting, I realized that we hadn't documented the prerequisites for the fallback status point, apart from saying that it required IIS. When we released Configuration Manager 2007, we didn't support Windows Server...