November, 2009

When using the "Capture Network Settings" task in a Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM 2007) OSD Task Sequence on a PC that has teamed NICs, not all of the settings of the NIC may be captured properly.  This mainly applies to DNS and WINS...

The Configuration Manager documentation library ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680651.aspx ) has been updated on the Web and the latest content on the Web has Updated: November 1, 2009 at the top of the topic. For all the details see http...

In your System Center Configuration Manager 2007 environment, you may find that a distribution point is not updating and a pck file may appear to be "stuck" or "locked" in the X:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\inboxes...

I recently came across this issue and thought it might be worth a mention here. If you have some really big packages and don't see any of your changes reflected on the Child Sites then this may be your issue. Symptoms Changes made to an SMS 2003...

Consider the following scenario: The management point role is installed on a site server that is running Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Many content location requests are sent to the management point when the...

Download an updated version of the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library which contains new material and fixes to documentation problems reported by customers since the last update was published. Refer to the “What’s New in the Documentation...

Looks like the Configuration Manager product team made a couple announcements regarding supported configurations over on their blog.  You can read the details yourself but here's the long and short of it: Windows Storage Server 2008 is now supported...

The Solution Accelerator team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP). Designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple...

From our very own Steve Rachui comes another great System Center tip.  This one covers how to get a Configuration Manager 2007 Task Sequence to rerun: There are well known methods to force an advertisement to rerun – including several add-on tools...

I asked the FixIt team for this a while back and they have delivered.  Now if you ever run into the symptoms below the chances are good we can automatically fix it with just a few clicks of the mouse: The Symptoms: When you use the fully qualified...

We’ve seen this issue come up a couple times so I wanted to give it a mention here just in case you run into it.  The problem is that you may notice Software Deployments are not working for a small percentage of your Configuration Manager clients...