June, 2009

Here’s a tip on an issue you may run into if you’re trying to run a script at the end of an OSD with System Center Configuration Manager 2007. If you’re pushing images of 64-bit Windows Server 2008 systems, and in the build task sequence...

This should go out in an updated Knowledge Base article within the next couple days but I figured I’d give all of you an advanced, sneak preview anyway. Below are our updated statements regarding supported platforms for Systems Management Server 2003...

Notification balloons seem to be a frequent topic of feedback from customers. There may pop up too often, or only certain users should get them, or the timing isn’t configurable enough. Lately we’ve had multiple customers asking for a very specific...

When you use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Operating System deployment (OSD) to deploy Volume License builds of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) images, "Activate Windows" may still appear in the "All Programs" Start menu after deployment. Since...

Here’s an issue I ran into the other day and since I didn’t see it documented anywhere I thought I’d post a quick heads-up here.  Issue: AMT clients are "successfully" provisioned however their accounts are not created in the Out Of Band...

Yesterday the Configuration Manager product team announced the release of the public beta for Configuration Manager Service Pack 2 and it’s available for download for all customers.  Service Pack 2 for Configuration Manager 2007 delivers new platform...

We had five new Knowledge Base articles for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 last week and one for SMS 2003: I won’t go into the details of each but you can check out the article titles and links below: ======== KB971225 - Windows Vista Service...

From the Configuration Manager product team blog: The Configuration Manager documentation library ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680651.aspx ) has been updated on the Web and the following information lists the topics that are new or contain...

We had two new Knowledge Base articles on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 last week: They’re both about an issue where the image capture process may fail during the "Prepare Windows for Capture" stage but the first refers to ConfigMgr...

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 this...

We’ve seen some issues reported over the past couple of days where the SMS 2003 SP3 ITMU scan is failing on some or all clients with code 87 (The parameter is incorrect). When this occurs, the SMSWusHandler.log contains entries similar to the following...

I was browsing through some of the other Configuration Manager blogs this morning and found a really good one written by Steve Rachui from our PFE (Premier Field Engineer) group.  This one is about a Windows Installer issue he ran into the other...

Looks like they just announced the availability of the HP Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center over on the System Center product team blog.  In case you’re not familiar with this, I have a brief intro and a link to the source below:...