May, 2011

Operating System Deployment (OSD) in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 offers several options for deploying images to target systems. One option includes support for imaging systems that are completely disconnected from the network using stand...

A few weeks back I announced the System Center Blog Aggregator app for Windows Phone 7 and today I wanted to let you know that it was now available for all you Android users out there as well.  I won’t go into all the details as you can read that...

On 64-bit operating systems, some IIS-based Configuration Manager 2007 roles (Management Point, etc.) require 64-bit ASP.NET components to be registered. If we register 32 bit components instead of 64-bit (only one can be registered at the same time)...

On 64-bit operating systems, some IIS-based Configuration Manager 2007 roles (Management Point, etc.) require 64-bit ASP.NET components to be registered.  If we register 32 bit components instead of 64 bit (only one can be registered at the same...

Consider the following two scenarios: Scenario 1 You have a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server. You install an Asset Intelligence synchronization point on the site server. In the installation process, the...

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here, and today I wanted to tell you about an interesting issue I ran into the other day after moving a site database to a failover cluster. After following our written procedures to move the site database into a SQL Server 2008...

Hi everyone, my name is Fei Xia and I wanted to take this opportunity to show you how to successfully install or move the Configuration Manager 2007 site database to a clustered Microsoft SQL Server instance. The System Center Configuration Manager 2007...

After creating the article ConfigMgr 2007 Basic User Driven Installation Task Sequence Step by Step , I wanted to follow up with another article covering the Application Discovery and Mapping features in a UDI Task Sequence. This cool feature allows you...

[Today's post is provided by Rob Stack ] The Configuration Manager Information Experience (iX) team has just published an update to the Configuration Manager 2007 Quiz Application. The quizzes are a fun way to learn about some of the features in the...

[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. Microsoft Application Virtualization...

[Today's post is from the Configuration Manager Writing Team ] The Configuration Manager 2007 documentation library and the Configuration Manager 2012 documentation library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: May 1, 2011...

[ Yvette O’Meally has provided today’s post] When the Configuration Manager 2007 Asset Intelligence synchronization point first connects to System Center Online, it presents the System Center online authentication certificate to enroll...

[Today’s post is provided by Abraham Wang ] It’s often the case that many customer-reported issues with a Configuration Manager feature are because the Configuration Manager client itself is not working, rather than a problem with the specific...

Just in case you missed it, Jeff Wettlaufer (Senior Technical Product Manager for System Center) just announced the immediate availability of SCUP 2011: We have released System Center Updates Publisher 2011 to the web today. This release was primarily...

Consider the following scenario: Scenario 1 You have a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server. You install hotfix 2213600 on the site server. You use the Import New Driver Wizard to import a set of drivers...

We blogged this issue a couple weeks ago but now there’s a hotfix available to resolve the issue: ===== Consider the following scenario: You create a task sequence on a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server...

Ryan Hearn posted this over on our Opalis blog but I figured you’d want to know as well: One of our favorite community members, Ryan Andorfer, has just created a new community IP for Configuration Manager 2007! You may know Ryan from his previous IP’s...

Just a quick FYI that the Configuration Manager Writing Team announced that the Configuration Manager 2007 documentation library and the Configuration Manager 2012 documentation library have been updated on the web.  The latest content has Updated...

Hi everyone, Anurag Shukla here.  The following article discusses how to move the Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr 2007) site database (DB) from a SQL Server 2005 SP2 based computer to a SQL Server 2008 based computer.  Note that this may not...

Microsoft’s own Yvette O’Meally just posted an announcement saying that you’ll need to renew your System Center Online Authentication Certificate before it expires. If you do not renew your certificate and it expires, you will no longer be able to synchronize...

I just wanted to let you know about a couple of our System Center support engineers that were recently profiled on Microsoft’s Customer Service & Support (CSS) People First blog.  There’s a chance that you might have talked with one of these...

If you’ve been following the blogging efforts of the System Center support and product teams for any length of time then you know we have quite a few different blogs based on the technology or product we focus on.  For example, we have the App-V...

I know this isn’t Configuration Manager specific but I thought you might want to know about a great training opportunity we have coming up at the end of the month for Office 365.  On May 24th through 26th Microsoft Learning is hosting a free 3-day...

Hi everyone, Clifton Hughes here.  It seems that there is a lot of documentation and various blog posts about managing clients in a Workgroup or Un-Trusted domain with ConfigMgr 2007, however I could not find where anyone had tied it all together...

Have you ever wanted to know a simple step by step process for creating a Task Sequence with the Enable BitLocker step included? I walk you through these steps, and also include some additional links to more information, including screen shots of the...