February, 2009

If you take a look at all the calls we get here in the SMS/ConfigMgr support group, this one would have to rank right up there in popularity. What happens here is the Distribution Point (DP) share, or the DP itself, is removed but you still have packages...

Over on the Office Resource Kit blog it looks like Ross posted the latest draft of the article describing how to deploy Office 2007 using System Center Configuration Manager 2007.  He's looking for feedback so if editing tech documents is one of...

Last week we had two new Knowledge Base articles on System Center Configuration Manager 2007. Both deal with recurring advertisements or maintenance windows starting an hour earlier or an hour later than expected when the time is changed because of Daylight...

Many enterprise customers today rely on a consistent company screen saver, and while that's usually something that's rolled out with the standard corporate desktop image, what if you need to change it later?  You can use Group Policy for that, but...

Here is an interesting one I saw the other day. We had a Management Point setup to support Internet clients, and while everything seemed to be setup correctly we kept seeing the error  “ Call to HttpSendRequestSync failed for port 443 with...

Last week we had two new System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Knowledge Base articles - The links and titles are below: ======== KB960448 - The Asset Intelligence Catalog Sync Service of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 cannot...

Just in case you missed it, Carol Bailey has posted yet another fantastic article on certificates over on the http://blogs.technet.com/configmgrteam blog.  If certificates are as confusing to you as they are to me then you'll definitely want to give...

The good folks over on the Windows Embedded blog just posted a great article on using ConfigMgr to manage various embedded devices.  If you work with this stuff then I think you'll find it pretty helpful.  I have their intro and a link below...

Are you looking for a forum or newsgroup where you can get help with ConfigMgr?  Want to know what the latest downloads are?  How about troubleshooting information, webcasts and whitepapers?  Need to contact support?  All this and...

Is there anything Carol Bailey doesn't know about certificates and Configuration Manager?  Doesn't seem like it as the Configuration Manager Team Blog has another great post on how to renew the Site Server Signing Certificate using Microsoft Certificate...

Yesterday Dell released their Dell Deployment Pack (DDP) for System Center Configuration Manager SP1.  What is the Dell Deployment Pack? I'm glad you asked.  According to dell: The Dell Deployment Pack (DDP) is an easy-to-use graphical user...

If you've ever said "You know, if I was the one designing System Center Configuration Manager I'd add ____" or "Why did they do it this way?  It would be much better like _____" then here's your chance to provide that feedback...

Over on the System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog , Carol Bailey posted some great information on Native Mode and certificates including a couple examples of multi-CA hierarchies.  If this sounds like you then you'll definitely want to check...

Just a quick note about an upcoming event we have planned that you may be interested in.  This one is taking place next Tuesday on February 10th in three locations across California: Irvine San Francisco Sacramento I know most of you probably aren...

Microsoft's very own Carol Bailey is at it again with another great Configuration Manager post over on http://blogs.technet.com/configmgrteam .  This time she talks about something I need a lot of help with - patience.  I don't know how many...

Here's another cool webcast we have coming up on managing virtual solutions using OpsMgr and ConfigMgr.  This one is on March 24th (Tuesday).  Details and a registration link are below: ======== Language(s): English. Product(s): Other. Audience...

Over on the Configuration Manager Team Blog Carol Bailey has another fantastic post, this one covering how to using IPsec to secure an Internet-based child primary site.  If you've ever wanted to do this then head on over and follow along as she...

I tell you what, Carol Bailey is a writing machine.  She had another article that posted yesterday that covers requirements, how to verify the installation, and even some troubleshooting tips for the fallback status point.  If you need to get...

The Configuration Manager Writing Team posted a list of updated docs over on the Configuration Manager Team blog .  These all look to be updated as of February 2009 so if it's been  a while since you've read these then you might want to check...

Just a quick FYI that on 2/18 the Security Compliance Management Toolkit series was updated on the web.  So what does this have to do with ConfigMgr?  Well, after deploying the security settings you can verify the accuracy of the setting policies...

Last week we had two new Knowledge Base articles on System Center Configuration Manager 2007.  The links and titles are below: ======== KB967506 - Client push fails when the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Management Point is installed in...

If you're not familiar with SCUP, System Center Updates Publisher is a stand-alone tool that enables independent software vendors or line-of-business app developers to import software update catalogs, create and modify software update definitions, export...