June, 2011

Looks like the Configuration Manager writing team just announced the June 2011 documentation library updates.  This includes updates for ConfigMgr 2007 as well as ConfigMgr 2012 and you can get a small taste below: The Configuration Manager 2007...

Hi everyone, Vikram Sahay here and I’m back again with another interesting topic on system Center Operations Manager 2007. Hope you find it useful. Recently we were working on an  issue where we were getting an error indicating that an agent could...

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here.  Here’s an interesting issue I ran into the other day that you might want to be aware of: Symptoms When using WOL functionality in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 the port assignment and transmission method...

I was over on the ConfigMgr product team blog and saw that Microsoft’s own Min Yang just published a great post on some of the enhancements they made in the 2012 console that will help you find things much faster than ever before.  If you missed...

Consider the following scenario: 1. You deploy many updates to a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) client. 2. You perform an operation that generates the WM_TIMECHANGE message from the client computer. For example...

Consider the following scenario: - You build a three-tier Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 hierarchy. - The hierarchy has many distribution points. For example, the hierarchy has more than 5,000 distribution points. - You create a package...

Sometimes you may find that System Center Configuration Manager 2007 discovers more computers than expected when employing Active Directory System Discovery. This happens primarily due to the leftover computer accounts and DNS entries of those machines...

I was just reading through the latest news on the Nexus SC blog and saw that they announced the availability of the ConfigMgr 2012 Beta 2 VHD yesterday.  If you’re working with ConfigMgr 2012 now or have any plans to in the future then you’ll probably...

[Today’s post is provided by Lilian Xuan ] Every person who uses the Configuration Manager 2007 console has to work with a complicated tree that has more than fifty nodes and hundreds of actions, even if they have permission to operate on just...

The following post was written by Charlie Chen (MCS): ===== Though System Center Configuration Manager 2007 has been out for some time now (currently at R3 SP2), and System Center Configuration Manager 2012 is due to be out soon, there still lingers occasional...

Here’s another great article I found while I was checking out what was new over on the TechNet Wiki this morning.  This one was written by Kim Ditto-Ehlert and shows you how to replace MSE with the FEP client using ConfigMgr 2007: Microsoft does...