May, 2009

When using the Preload Package Tool (PreloadPkgOnSite.exe) to preinstall a package on a DP on a child site, the tool may not work as expected and the package may not show as being installed on the remote DP where the tool was used. The instructions on...

Updated May 3 rd 2010 by chughes... This article seeks to offer a more complete solution on not only how to capture various registry settings from a client into the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 database, but to also demo how to build a sample...

Hello System Center, In this post I'd like to share information gleaned from a quarters worth of support incidents as regards Configuration Manager 2007 Client Site Assignment. The goal is for this post to help by providing details on common problems...

  Note: This article has been updated as of 11/30/2010.  See comments in red below.   Hello System Center, In this post I'd like to share information gleaned from a quarters worth of support incidents as regards Configuration Manager 2007...

Hello System Center, In this post I'd like to share information gleaned from recent support incidents regarding the Configuration Manager 2007 Software Updates Client Agent. The goal for this post is to help by providing details on common problems driving...

Are you using Systems Management Server 2003 to roll out Windows XP Service Pack 3 to your clients?  Have you noticed any that didn’t install yet also didn’t report any errors?  If so and you’re using an old Intel wireless driver then this may...

By default the SCCM server's site control file sets the agent to provision check automatically every 24 hours. This is not configurable in the UI nor is it an option on the Actions tab of the agent (unlike Hardware Inventory or Machine Policy Requests...

If so then you really need to check out the series of screencasts put together by Jason Lewis from our very own Configuration Manager team over on his blog: Screencast: System Center Updates Publisher – Installation   Screencast: System Center Updates...

In case you missed it, last Thursday Bhaskar Krishnan posted a great FAQ on SQL Reporting Services integration with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 over on the Configuration Manager product team blog. SQL Reporting Services integration...

We had five new Knowledge Base article published last week on System Center Configuration Manager 2007.  I won’t go through each one but I have the links and titles below:   KB969530 - The Ccmexec.exe process may consume almost 100 percent of...

Just in case you missed it, Carol Bailey has another fantastic post over on this System Center Configuration Manager Team blog where she discusses publishing the CRL on a separate web server.  It’s definitely worth a read and I have her intro and...

Carol Bailey just posted a workaround for an issue where the out of band management console that is used to connect to AMT-based computers has a problem running on Windows XP SP2.  If this applies to you then you’ll definitely want to check this...

We had two new Knowledge Base articles on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 last week: One about some attributes that may be missing on branch DPs and another about how the Ccmexec.exe process may consume almost 100 percent of CPU resources on...

We published a new System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Knowledge Base article last week.  This one involves an issue where you may not be able to enumerate collection members if KB955262 is installed: KB969529 - Users cannot enumerate collection...

A couple days ago Steve Rachui posted a great article on his blog about a tool he wrote that will verify that your provisioning and AMT client certificates in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 are properly installed and configured.  Configuring...

Looks like the documentation team just published some updates to the Configuration Manager 2007 library: The Configuration Manager documentation library ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680651.aspx ) has been updated on the Web.  See...

Just an FYI that the Configuration Manager team just posted the latest quarterly update for the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library.  I have a brief intro and a link below: ======== The latest downloadable quarterly update for the Configuration...