June, 2012

Microsoft’s very own Scott Rachui put together another great self-study guide for System Center 2012, this time focusing exclusively on Configuration Manager. If you’re wanting to jump start your ConfigMgr 2012 expertise then this is where you want to...

UPDATED 7/16/2012: We’ve had a few questions regarding critical updates and WSUSSCN2.CAB so I thought I’d publish a quick explainer in case you were wondering the same. Question: Is security advisory KB2719615 going to be added for Microsoft Update Catalog...

The following is a self-study guide put together by a Technical Account Manager here at Microsoft named Scott Rachui. He was gracious enough to let me post the contents here so if you’re looking for a crash course on System Center Advisor and App Controller...

We recently assisted a customer that was having problems accessing the WEDM nodes in a remote ConfigMgr 2007 admin console if the user was not an admin on the remote site server. We checked WMI and DCOM permissions and everything appears to be configured...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one talks about an issue where when using WEDM 2011 and trying to access the Deployments , Configuration Items , and Configuration Packages nodes under the Embedded Device Management node in...

Symptoms In System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, if the Management Point is in HTTPS mode but the Distribution Point hosting the PXE server is in HTTP mode, the PXE boot may fail. Examining the SMSPXE.log may reveal the following errors: ProcessMessage...

Hello, As we mentioned previously , Microsoft is releasing an update to further harden the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) as a defense-in-depth precaution for our customers. This update is now available for download. As an additional measure...

The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: June 1, 2012 at the top of the topic. We value customer...

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...

Symptoms When creating a new Task Sequence or updating an existing Task Sequence on a parent primary site in System Center Configuration Manager 2007, the Task Sequence may not replicate down to child primary sites. Packages and other Task Sequences...