April, 2011

Here’s an issue I ran into the other day and since I didn’t see a lot documented about it I thought I’d go ahead and post the fix here.  If you’re getting an Access Denied error when trying to connect to a client using the Remote Tools then here...

Looks like the good folks over on the Configuration Manager writing team just announced their Configuration Manager Documentation Library update for April 2011: The Configuration Manager 2007 documentation library ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us...

Microsoft’s very own John Vintzel recently posted another fantastic article discussing Configuration Manager 2012 offline servicing for Operating System Images and how it can be used to apply updates to operating system images while they are in the Configuration...

Consider the following scenario: You create a deployment package on a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server. You create a program in the package. The name of the program contains extended ASCII characters...

Symptoms Using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 (ConfigMgr 2007) and USMT 4.0 in a ConfigMgr 2007 Native Mode environment to refresh an Operating System puts the resulting deployed ConfigMgr 2007 client in a non-functional state as it is unable...

Symptoms The information below describes how to use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to determine whether The Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V is installed prior to sending the Office 2010 virtual package. This is a good practice...

Looks like our very own Jeff Wettlaufer just posted a veritable salad of videos covering a few different topics relating to Configuration Manager 2012.  I have them listed below but you can view them directly from the source here . 1.  System...

Microsoft’s John Vintzel is at it again with another great post on the System Center Configuration Manager 2012 beta.  This one covers monitoring the compliance of content and a new feature to validate content in the Configuration Manager 2012 infrastructure...

This isn’t necessarily ConfigMgr 2007 specific but if you’re using System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 then this one’s for you.  This is a new Microsoft Application Virtualization Knowledge Base article...

Do you use Windows Intune today, or have plans for using it in the future?  It seems that most of you are considering the advantages that Intune offers so if you’d like the opportunity to influence the direction we take with Windows Intune, or if...

Consider the following scenario: You configure a maintenance window for a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) client. You configure an advertisement to run on the client computer within the maintenance window. The client...