April, 2009

Here’s another issue sent to me by Clifton Hughes in our ConfigMgr 2007 group.  If you’re trying to upgrade from the evaluation version to the full version, or if you’re trying to install Service Pack 1 but the setup program just seems to sit there...

When attempting to provision an AMT enabled device you may be unable to do so and the AMT Status of the device in the SCCM console may remain as Detected instead of Provisioned or Not Provisioned.  Additionally the AMTOPMGR.log may contain this message...

Here’s an interesting one you may run into if you’re working with any of the European languages. This is something scheduled to be fixed in an upcoming release but for now you can use one of the workaround below if you encounter it. Issue: The report...

Here's another neat tip from Clifton Hughes in our Irving, Texas site.  If you're unable to view the status of Advertised packages from Advertisement Status view pane then this might be what you’re looking for: ======== Issue: You may be unable to...

Carol Bailey hits another home run with her post yesterday on resolving a couple of Certreq errors involving Key Size and User Permissions, specifically: The public key does not meet the minimum size required by the specified certificate template. 0x80094811...

If you’re using the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Operating System Deployment feature to deploy operating system images in secondary sites, here’s some information you may find interesting: Issue: During the deployment of a System Center Configuration...

Here’s an issue I worked on a while back that I thought might help some of you in case you ran into the same thing.  This involves an issue where the the Multicast Virtual Directory may not install correctly on the SMSWEB custom web site.  ...

I was checking out Steve Rachui’s blog this morning and saw that he had a great post on using SCUP with the WSUS Self-Signed Cert Option so in case you missed it I have the intro and a link below.  He has the complete list of steps including detailed...

Have you ever wondered how Microsoft uses Configuration Manager? Well wonder no more, there’s a detailed write up on everything from developing the business case to using some of the more advanced features as part of our IT Showcase . Here you’ll find...

Do you use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 or SMS 2003 and wonder what all the switches for PatchInstall are?  If so then Steve Rachui has the information you need as he documents everything from /F to /Z and everything in between. ...

Over on Techlog.org they have a nice write-up on the next version of Configuration Manager - System Center Configuration Manager.next.  This is coming straight from MMS via a Configuration Manager “State of the Union” session put on by Bill Anderson...

In yesterdays (4/14/2009) initial WSUSScn2.cab release from the MU/WU team, there was an issue causing the update for KB923561 for the Czechoslovakian language to be incorrectly detected and offered. This issue was addressed and a revision to this update...

Over on the Configuration Manager Team blog Jeff Gilbert comes through again with another awesome post on how Configuration Manager Backup uses the Volume Shadow Copy service to work it’s magic.  If you’ve ever wondered what was going on under the...

We had one new Knowledge Base article published last week.  This one is about a hotfix for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 that fixes an issue where not all advertised task sequences are processed because of a synchronization issue in...

The folks over on the Configuration Manager team blog have a great post on how to resolve an issue we’re seeing where Vista SP1 installations deployed using OSD may not be able to hibernate.  If you’re deploying Windows Vista Service Pack 1 using...

Just an FYI that at 12:00pm Eastern time on Wednesday, May 06, 2009, we’ll be hosting a webcast focused on using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 for deploying server or desktop operating systems.  Find out how you can deliver consistent...

We had two new Knowledge Base article published last week.  The first is about an issue with software inventory and the second is about a possible crash in SMS_Executive when using Intel WS-MAN Translator version 1.1.  The links and titles are...

Everywhere you look these days it’s all about blogs.  Blogs here, blogs there, they’re all over the place.  So have you ever wondered how many different blogs Microsoft hosts? Let me tell, you don’t want to know.  Let’s just say it’s thousands...