October, 2008

Here's another ConfigMgr 2007 OSD tip from Frank Rojas out in Charlotte, North Carolina. If you have a Task Sequence that fails almost immediately after it boots into WinPE with an 0x80004005 error then you'll want to check this one out: ======== ...

Over on Steve Rachui's Manageability blog he has a great write-up on how to minimize your network utilization by enabling Multicast for your OSD  image deployments.  If you're deploying to a lot of machines at the same time then you'll definitely...

Just an FYI that we recently released a new Infrastructure Planning and Design guide for Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 for R2.  So what's an Infrastructure Planning and Design guide?  Glad you asked.  Here's the official description: The...

Yesterday we released a new document to help you create custom reports, determine which Configuration Manager 2007 SQL views contain the information you need for your reports, and identify the path between the necessary SQL views and determine what columns...

Here's another cool tip on OSD Task Sequences that Frank Rojas made me aware of.  Is there anything he doesn't know about these things?  If there is I don't know what it is. ======== Issue: When using SMS 2003 Operating System Deployment with...

We had one updated and two new Knowledge Base articles for the week.  Links and titles are below: ======== Sys Center Config Manager 2007 AL 955955 - A task sequence that contains many packages may take longer to run after you install System Center...

We had two updated Knowledge Base articles for the week.  Links and titles are below: ======== Sys Mgmt Svr Ent Ed 2003 EN 941820 - NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing does not work correctly on a computer that is running the SMS 2003 Service Pack...

Yesterday I posted a step-by-step on how to enable Multicast for your OS Deployments (OSD) so I thought I'd also take a sec to point out the log files used to troubleshoot the same.  These log files, as well as the standard logs for troubleshooting...

Just a quick FYI on a recent Knowledge Base article we released describing the supported configurations for using the same WSUS instance to support both FCS v1 and ConfigMgr 2007.  I'll spare you all the gory details other than to point out the basic...