December, 2009

The Configuration Manager doc team just announced the December 2009 Documentation Library update over on the ConfigMgr product team blog: The Configuration Manager documentation library ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680651.aspx ) has...

When a Task Sequence is created via the "Create New Task Sequence Wizard", the Task Sequence may fail if the Windows OS being deployed is Windows 7 and the reference Windows 7 WIM image being deployed was manually created and then captured using...

Back on Tuesday the Configuration Manager product team posted a great article on how to manually create a Microsoft License Statement File for Import into Asset Intelligence: We have received a number of requests from customers who would like to create...

When you upgrade a computer that is running the App-V 4.5 client to System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2, it may break all the File Type Associations (FTA's) for the virtualized applications. This can occur because the SP2 installer updates the...

Looks like Carol Bailey wrote up a great post on a couple issues relating to native mode certificate selection.  If you're seeing either of these then you might want to check out the link below: A couple of issues recently came to our attention from...

Mainstream support for SMS 2003 will end on January 12th, 2010.  On January 12, 2010, SMS 2003 will be entering the extended phase of support. What is the difference between Mainstream Support, Extended Support, and online self-help support? Source...

In case you missed the big announcement over on the System Center Team blog I thought I'd pass it along here.  This isn't really support related but I thought you might find it interesting anyway: Great news for enterprise, government and service...

One of our Windows team bloggers published a list of useful Windows 7 links that cover deployment (MDT 2010 and SCCM), USMT 4.0, activation, application compatibility and boot to VHD.  These links can change from time to time but are a good start...

You may want to use status MIF files for extended or custom reporting of the advertisement status by configuring the reporting properties of a mandatory advertisement to "Use these fields for status MIF matching", but if the resulting MIF file...

Consider the following scenario in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1): You create a large package that is several gigabytes. You assign the package to a branch distribution point (BDP). You repeatedly change the package. Every...