December, 2010

Just a heads up on a new ConfigMgr 2007 Knowledge Base article we published today.  If you do any work with Operating System Deployment (OSD) then you'll want to check this one out: ===== Symptoms When trying to create Stand-alone media, Bootable...

Here's another KB we published this morning.  This one offers a general discussion on hotfix installation in System Center Configuration Manager 2007: ===== Summary A System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr) hotfix will affect one or...

Here's an interesting issue I ran into the other day and I thought I'd post it here in case anyone happened to see it.  The issue is one where if you have System Center Configuration Manager 2007 running on Windows Server 2008 R2 with WEBDAV 7.5...

Just a heads up on a new ConfigMgr 2007 Knowledge Base article we published this morning.  If you're pushing out Software Updates to Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 based clients then you'll want to be aware of this potential issue: ===== Symptoms...

Just a heads up on a new ConfigMgr 2007 Knowledge Base article we published this morning.  If you're using a ConfigMgr Task Sequence on a PC with multiple drives or partitions and it uses USMT 4 with hardlinking then you'll want to check this one...

Here's another KB we published this morning.  This one talks about an issue where attempting to reinstall a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 secondary site fails when attempted via the primary site console: ===== Symptoms You issue an instruction...

Here's another KB we published this morning.  This one talks about an issue where creating an MDT based task sequence fails with An error occurred when loading the task sequence and logs a 0x80041002 error in TaskSequenceProvider.log: ===== Symptoms...

Just a heads up on another Configuration Manager KB article we published today.  This one involves error 0x800b0004 and System Center Updates Publisher : ===== Symptoms The Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007) System...

When running a User Driven Installation (UDI) Task Sequence on an x64 (64-bit or AMD64) Windows 7 machine, it shows the following warning under User Data and Settings: No valid Windows directory found, data and settings will not be captured Cause This...

I'm still working through the backlog of new Knowledge Base articles we're pushing out and thought I'd give you a heads up on another new ConfigMgr 2007 article we published this morning.  This one describes a scenario where you get "MSI: Configuration...

Just a heads up on a new ConfigMgr 2007 Knowledge Base article we published today.  If you do any work with query based collections, and who doesn't, then you'll want to check this one out: ===== Symptoms All systems show in a collection after removing...

The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 product team just released a couple new support statements you'll probably want to be aware of regarding Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 .  I won't steal all of their thunder...

Microsoft's own Steve Rachui explains how to quickly and easily test remote SQL connectivity using any account you like.  This is a neat trick that will surely prove useful when working with a wide variety of products. J.C. Hornbeck | System Center...