November, 2010

Just wanted to give you a quick heads up on a new Knowledge Base article for System Center Service Manager 2010 that we published last night: ===== Symptoms A change request in System Center Service Manager 2010 will remain with a status of "in Progress"...

Please review all of the information in this post specific to your systems for any antivirus scan issues and workarounds. Important: Some of the steps defined herein may increase your security risk. These steps may also make your computer or your network...

Let's say that you need to collect the BitLocker Drive Encryption status from the clients in your environment. You have System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and you're already using Hardware Inventory, but how do you put it all together? That's what...

Looks like the latest downloadable update for the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library has been posted to the Microsoft download center. The September 2010 version is the newest downloadable update available and contains new...

[Today's post is provided by Rob Stack ] The latest downloadable update for the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library has been posted to the download center. The September 2010 version is the newest downloadable update available and contains...

If you're looking for some guidance and best practices on how to author and maintain high quality System Center Update Publisher (SCUP) catalogs then you're at the right place.  Our very own Jason Lewis has created an authoring guide that will answer...

Newly created custom labels are present in the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 central site however they do not show up on child sites. You do not see any replication related issues in any of the logs and the AIKBMGR.LOG does not show that an...

Looking to get a head start on System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (aka Configuration Manager vNext)?  If so then you'll be happy to know that nominations for the ConfigMgr 2012 Beta 2 Technology  Adoption Program (TAP) are now open. ...

I just wanted to let everyone know that we recently updated Knowledge Base article 925282 to include System Center Configuration Manager 2007.  In all honesty it always applied but before now we really didn't make that entirely clear, so if you've...

Looks like our very own Fei Xia on the ConfigMgr 2007 Sustained Engineering team wrote up a great blog post on how to expire Software Updates in System Center Updates Publisher and synchronize the expired updates in Configuration Manager 2007.  If...

Just an FYI that we published a great whitepaper on how to implementing an effective Power Management strategy with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3: The purpose of this white paper is to describe how Microsoft IT (MSIT) successfully deployed...

I want to take a minute and walk through the process a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 client goes through when processing Software Updates but before we get into that I'd like to explain how to find information specific to a particular update...