Want a quick, technical intro and demo of SCE 2010?  If so this one's for you: ===== Event Overview It's here; Microsoft System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 brings unified physical and virtual management to midsized organizations with up to 500 PCs...

Suppose you want to use the USMT 4 feature of hardlinking in a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Task Sequence, but you notice that the " Capture User State "/" Capture User Files and Settings " and " Restore User State "/" Restore User Files and...

Here's an interesting issue I've run into a couple times and since I didn't see it documented anywhere I thought I'd give everyone a heads up here. When using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 you may find that you have missing default boot...

Being in the product support side of the business allows you to see a lot of different issues, some unique, some not, but it also offers a glimpse into the issues people seem to have the most trouble with. We recently did some analysis of some of the...

The Intel Core vPro processor Management Pack for System Center Service Manager 2010 is used to provide end users of System Center Service Manager access to KVM Remote Control, IDE-Redirection and Power Control on clients enabled by Intel Core vPro processor...

Yesterday the Windows Update / Microsoft Update team released a revised WSUSSCN2.CAB file. This new cab file addresses supersedence logic for Bulletin MS10-035.  The supersedence of KB980182 was replaced by KB978207 . We recommend that .CAB users...

Here's a heads up on a new System Center Essentials 2010 KB article we recently published.  This article discusses an issue where an existing Active Directory Group Policy Object (GPO) named "SCE Test GPO" may be deleted during the configuration...

Language(s): English. Product(s): Microsoft System Center. Audience(s): IT Generalist. Duration: 90 Minutes Event Overview The high level steps you will be exercising in this lab are: reading about various topologies, getting an overview of the sizing...

If you are using IIS 7 or IIS 6 with Kerberos Authentication, you may see an increase in network traffic and overall slow performance when pushing out large packages to your System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Distributions Points. This can happen...

Language(s): English. Product(s): Microsoft System Center. Audience(s): IT Decision Maker,IT Generalist. Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Event Overview Assessing Your Organization’s Maturity...

Looks like the ConfigMgr documentation team has been at it again, this time creating an awesome explainer for PXE cache expiration behavior in Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 and SP2.  If you've ever encountered a situation where running a second...

Looks like the Configuration Manager documentation writers updated the ConfigMgr library for May.  The latest content has Updated: May 1, 2010 at the top of the topic but you can get all the details about what's new here . J.C. Hornbeck | System...

Looking for information on the virtualization features in System Center Essentials 2010?  What, you didn't even know SCE 2010 had some awesome virtualization tech in it, including some of the features found in SCVMM?  If so then our very own...

Language(s): English. Product(s): Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. Audience(s): IT Decision Maker,IT Generalist. Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Event Overview The next release...

Here's another Opalis Knowledge Base article for you. I know this isn't Configuration Manager specific but I thought some of you might enjoy seeing it anyway. This one involves an issue where policies in Opalis Integration Server that use the Monitor...