March, 2012

Here’s an issue we’ve seen a couple times before so I thought I’d give you a heads up here in case you happen to run across it. Symptoms The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr) SMS Agent Host Service (CCMExec.exe) may become unresponsive...

Hi folks, my name is Sanman Parvalkar and I’d like to share some information regarding the creation of queries, collections and reports for Window Server 2008 Core in System Center Configuration Manager 2007. System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where attempting to install System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007) hotfix 2509007 along with either 977203 or 977384 via the PATCH= option in the...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where the IIS Application Folder SMS_DP_SMSPKG$ anonymous authentication settings periodically get disabled: ===== Symptoms After enabling Anonymous Authentication in...

Microsoft’s own Eric Orman just posted a great article over on the Server and Cloud Platform blog.  In the article, Eric talks about upgrading to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and the Migration Distribution Point upgrade job: My favorite...

Hi folks, my name is Sanman Parvalkar and I’d like to share information with you regarding Group Memberships and the Delta Discovery process in System Center Configuration Manager 2007. When adding machines to a Security group you usually want them to...

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here once again with another troubleshooting tip for you.  Consider the following scenario: In an otherwise healthy and functional site you find one or more of the following. 1) SMS Site Control Manager Site status message...

Microsoft’s very own D.C. Tardy (Senior Program Manager for Configuration Manager) has posted yet another fantastic article over on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Blog .  This one talks about hierarchy design in System Center 2012 Configuration...

Hi everyone, Tyler Franke here again with one more issue I ran into recently.  Consider a scenario where you have your System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr) site database on a remote/dedicated SQL Server wherein a drive fails or has...

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

Hi everyone, Arvind Kr. Rana here. We’ve seen this issue come up a couple of times here lately so I wanted to give it a mention here just in case you run into it. The issue is that if you are trying to install a System Center Configuration Manager 2007...

Hi everyone, Somaning Turwale here. I recently went through sequencing the ConfigMgr 2007 admin console and thought I’d share what I learned with you here. When trying to Sequence (virtualize) the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Administrator...

Our colleagues over at the Configuration Manager Team Blog just posted a great article on how to troubleshoot a situation where you see a discrepancy between the completion statistics section for an error count of a deployment and the Error tab of the...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one explains why in System Center Configuration Manager, when you set the Site Code of a Software Metering rule to a secondary site, that rule will not be applicable to any clients: ===== Summary...

You’re up and running with the new software deployment features in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager – deploying applications, software updates, package and programs, configuration baselines. But there will inevitably be a few deployments...

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager introduces many exciting new features for deploying software that benefit both administrators and end users. With Configuration Manager, users get a consolidated view of the software status by using Software Center...

One of the advantages of having the Endpoint Protection and Configuration Manager data integrated into a single database in Configuration Manager 2012 is that it simplifies building custom reports. Though we offer over 400 total System Center 2012 Configuration...