March, 2011

From the System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog : In many large organizations, network configuration and Active Directory Domain Services are managed separately from Configuration Manager. Changes to the network topology or AD structure must be...

Microsoft’s very own John Vintzel recently posted a couple of fantastic articles discussing Configuration Manager 2012 Distribution Points, PXE Services and Boot Image management so if you missed these you’ll definitely want to stop by and give them a...

The Configuration Manager team is pleased to release a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Physical to Virtual Migration Toolkit. This tool is designed to assist organizations in their migrations from Configuration Manager 2007, to Configuration...

[ Randy Xu provides our first Config Manager 2012 beta 2 post] Backgrou nd In many large organizations, network configuration and Active Directory Domain Services are managed separately from Configuration Manager. Changes to the network topology...

Ever since Windows Phone 7 was launched late last year there’s been a growing buzz surrounding Microsoft’s new phone OS, and with the recent announcement that the Windows Phone Marketplace had surpassed 10,000 apps in those 4-5 months and was growing...

Looks like the product team is publishing some new support statements for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 this month: Configuration Manager 2007 SP2, R2 and R3 supports Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft Application Virtualization...

When using Hard Links for User State Migration, attempting to remove the OSDStateStorePath folder after restoring the users data in a Task Sequence may fail or appear to hang. Note: This is in reference to the steps listed in this article: http://technet...

[Today's post is provided by Chaohao Xu .] The Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7 SP1 is released and can be downloaded from the following location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=0aee2b4b-494b-4adc...

[Today's post comes from Harini Muralidharan] We are announcing support changes for the following releases. Please look for these changes to be reflected in the Supported Configuration pages within a few months. Configuration Manager 2007 SP2, R2...

[Today's post is from Ken Pan ] I am very pleased to inform you that Brad Anderson (Corporate Vice President, Management & Security Division) has just announced the public availability of System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 at the day...

Did you hear the news?  ConfigMgr 2012 will support Windows Phone 7, Symbian, iOS (iPhones and iPads) and Android-based devices , and the new Beta 2 is available for download starting today.  From the download site: Consumerization is a growing...

[Today's post is provided by Harini Muralidharan] We are announcing support changes for the following releases. Please look for these changes to be reflected in the Supported Configuration pages within a few months. Configuration Manager 2007 R3...

[We are posting information for virtualization training that may be interesting to our blog audience] Just one week after Microsoft Management Summit 2011 (MMS), Microsoft Learning will be hosting an exclusive three-day Jump Start class specially tailored...

Here’s a great new TechNet Wiki article written by MVP Marcelo Sincic.  The native language is Portuguese but if you’re running the awesome new Bing Bar than a quick click of the Translator icon will transform it on the fly to perfect English. ...

When pushing a software distribution package with .ASPX or .ASMX files to a Branch Distribution Point (BDP), the transfer fails. Transfers via SMB to the same BDPs work fine. You may also see BITS jobs failing with transient errors. Cause This occurs...

Are you looking for the best way to deploy Forefront Endpoint Protection updates?  If so then our very own Kevin Saye just published a great article on using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to do exactly that over on the TechNet Wiki . He...

Hi, Mark Stanfill here, and today I wanted to give you a heads up on an interesting issue I ran into the other day.  The problem was that the Configuration Manager 2007 Dashboard wouldn’t display any data and simply showed a "Please wait......

When using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and restoring from a backup created via the " Backup ConfigMgr Site Server " maintenance task, OSD and Task Sequences may no longer function if the restore was performed after a Windows OS...

Our System Center Configuration Manager User Experience research team is conducting a short online survey and your participation would be most appreciated. The survey should take about 10 minutes to complete. The survey addresses topics such as the use...