February, 2012

Hi folks, my name is Yuvaraj Tamil Mani and I’d like to take a minute and share some information about the flow of package distribution to a standard Distribution Point (DP) and a Branch Distribution Point (BDP). When a package is sent to a standard DP...

Microsoft’s own Jason Githens (Senior Program Manager for Configuration Manager) just posted a great article over on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Blog where he talks about some of the best-practices for managing software updates in the upcoming...

I recently came across an older, fairly common issue recently but I never see one of the potential workarounds mentioned so I thought I write it up here in case you run into it. With this issue, the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr...

From the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team : As we work on the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager release, I would like to share some of the improvements you can expect in the Administrator Console experience. While the emphasis is all about...

Microsoft’s very own D.C. Tardy (Senior Program Manager for Configuration Manager) just posted a great article over on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Blog that talks about the new hierarchy design in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and...

Microsoft’s very own Abhishek Pathak (Program Manager for Configuration Manager) just posted a great article over on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Blog that talks about some of the new options for managing your remote offices with the upcoming...

We will add a new product family to your WSUS server today – System Center . The System Center product family will contain updates for versions 2012 and higher of System Center products, which include System Center 2012 , a product that combines components...

We recently discovered an issue that KB2509007 would not install properly if installed at the same time as either KB977203 or KB977384 via the PATCH= option in the " Setup Windows and ConfigMgr " task. We were able to reproduce the issue internally and...

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: February 1, 2012 at the top of the topic. You might have...

Symptoms: When you use the Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 Group Policy Tool to import a policy file that was exported from System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection, it will fail with a screenshot similar to the following: Cause: The...