January, 2010

This document was created to help in troubleshooting Configuration Manager Service Pack 2 (SP2) install failures. This document is not entirely specific to Service Pack 2 and can apply to Service Pack 1 installs, upgrades from SMS 2003 to SCCM, and future...

I was having trouble finding this post on the old SMSandMOM blog without a direct link, and saw this question asked on an alias so I thought it would be worth posting again on the new blog site for ConfigMgr 2007. This post describes how to move the Site...

Purpose: This post is intended to explain how client approval works when a Mixed Mode Configuration Manager 2007 site is configured to automatically approve clients in trusted domains and to offer insight into how to troubleshoot scenarios where this...

Here's a unique issue I came across the other day that I thought you might like hearing about. In this case, we were unable to connect to a ConfigMgr 2007 Secondary Site server from Tools => Service Manager unless we were using a domain admin account...

Our very own Buz Brodin, a Senior Escalation Engineer here on our System Center Configuration Manager support team, recently posted a great video that goes through some demos and some tips and tricks for setting up and using Out Of Band Management with...

International Client Packs (ICPs) contain international-language clients to use with System Center Configuration Manager (SC Config Mgr) 2007 SP2. ICP downloads contain only the Config Mgr client files, not the English-language SC Config Mgr 2007 SP2...

With the R2 release of System Center Configuration Manager 2007, the product now supports the use of SQL Reporting Services as a reporting solution.  This is the direction for reporting going forward and it offers a good number of exciting possibilities...

I know this isn't necessarily Configuration Manager specific but I figured that some of you may still have some old Windows 2000 or Windows XP SP2 systems running out there and would appreciate the heads up.  As the title says, Windows XP SP2, Windows...

Update 2/1/2011 - There is now a SP2 hotfix that addresses this here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978021 ===== Consider the following scenario: You install the distribution point role on a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager...

I've been out for a while due to the winter break so I'm still trying to get caught up on all the things I've missed, and part of that includes all the new Knowledge Base articles we published over the last few weeks.  There are far too many to discuss...

Jeff Wettlaufer posted a cool video demonstrating the new "Prestaged Media" deployment option included in the upcoming ConfigMgr 2007 R3 over on the System Center Team blog.  It's only about 4 to 5 minutes long so if you have a few spare...

As we mentioned here last month, mainstream support for SMS 2003 ends on January 12, 2010.  Well that date came a went this week so I just wanted to remind everybody that SMS 2003 has now entered the Extended Support phase of it's life.  Jeff...

Looks like our very own Bhaskar Krishnan has written a great post on troubleshooting some of the frequently encountered issues relating to client content download problems in System Center Configuration Manager 2007.  It outlines the scenario, then...

This is just a friendly heads-up on a couple KB articles we published last week.  I'm not going to go into the details of each but I do have a title and link for each below: KB977056 - The memory allocation for the Wmiprvse.exe process keeps increasing...

Last Friday we announced the opening of the Technology Adoption Program nominations for the next release of System Center Configuration Manager.  The Technology Adoption Program is designed to provide a consistent experience for Microsoft customers...

The article below came out today from Paul Ross, Group Product Marketing Manager for System Center.  If you're curious what exactly Opalis is or if you simply want to learn more, the four videos mentioned below will give you a great head start on...

I got a tip that there's going to be a pretty cool webinar on Intel vPro tech coming up next week. You can get all the details here but I also have their intro below: ======== Join us for a Webinar on January 26 Space is limited. Reserve your...