January, 2012

Just found this great article over in our public TechNet Wiki titled System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Survival Guide .  If you’re looking at or already running ConfigMgr 2012 then you’ll definitely want to add this one to your IE Favorites...

Many of our existing Configuration Manager customers are used to thinking in terms of installing and configuring sites, and then configuring individual features, such as hardware inventory, software distribution, and software updates. This reflected the...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today on ConfigMgr 2007. This one talks about a couple issues you might run into if you use the Site Repair Wizard to restore a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 site server from a 32-bit Operating...

The Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library and the Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: January 1, 2012 at the top of the topic. New this month...

The below article was first published over The Configuration Manager Support Team Blog site. However we recently discovered that the method described in the article would only work when deploying from an Operating System Install Package (deploying from...

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Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here again with another issue I ran into recently.  Consider a scenario wherein System Center Configuration Manager 2007 has been installed and service packed to the latest (SP2) build. Now let's assume that the Evaluation...

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here with another ConfigMgr tip for you.  Have you ever been working in the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 admin console and found that when you  right-click on a user in a collection, select properties and...

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here. Recently I worked with a customer who was seeing an issue where Software Updates would no longer synchronize from WSUS, plus the ones that previously did sync and were deployed were not available to clients.  We did...

Hi everyone, David Smith here.  I’m a Senior Support Engineer here on the ConfigMgr team and I recently came across an interesting issue that I thought might be worth a mention here on our blog.  In this case, an Operating System Deployment...

Hi everyone, Arvind Kr. Rana here. We’ve seen this issue come up a couple of times so I wanted to give it a mention here just in case you run into it. The problem is that you may notice that a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007)...