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Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Beta supports the management of Linux and UNIX servers. The clients for Linux and UNIX extends the scope of your Configuration Manager environment to collect inventory, deploy software, and run reports about Linux and UNIX servers in your enterprise...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where Security Update MS10-019 may not visible in the Configuration Manager console for some operating systems. ===== Symptoms When installing the System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) client, the process fails...

Hello, Lee Stevens again with a collection reporting tip… So, here is a great little query that you can use to compare two tables for systems that happen to be in both collections.  In this query, we will be finding computer names, their joined domain (or workgroup), and the last known logged on...

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 questions such as, “How do Clients communicate...

Consider the following scenario: You create a deployment package on a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server. You create a program in the package. The name of the program contains extended ASCII characters. You create a task sequence, and you add an Install...

This isn’t necessarily ConfigMgr 2007 specific but if you’re using System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 then this one’s for you.  This is a new Microsoft Application Virtualization Knowledge Base article we published this morning that shows you how to...

Here's an interesting issue I ran into the other day and I thought I'd post it here in case anyone happened to see it.  The issue is one where if you have System Center Configuration Manager 2007 running on Windows Server 2008 R2 with WEBDAV 7.5, clients doing downloads using BITS can either appear...

I'm still working through the backlog of new Knowledge Base articles we're pushing out and thought I'd give you a heads up on another new ConfigMgr 2007 article we published this morning.  This one describes a scenario where you get "MSI: Configuration Manager Client is not installed"...

I just wanted to let everyone know that we recently updated Knowledge Base article 925282 to include System Center Configuration Manager 2007.  In all honesty it always applied but before now we really didn't make that entirely clear, so if you've seen the article before the contents are largely...

I want to take a minute and walk through the process a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 client goes through when processing Software Updates but before we get into that I'd like to explain how to find information specific to a particular update in the client side log files.  When viewing...

Symptoms System Center Configuration Manager 2007 clients may fail to load policy with error 80040217 in the PolicyEvaluator.log: Failed to load policies from XML. Unknown error (Error: 80040217; Source: Unknown) Bad policy dumped to C:\Windows\SysWOW64\CCM\Temp\badpolicy-SMS_P01-{2f76229b-385a-43f3...

When a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 OSD Task Sequence completes, the ConfigMgr client may not seem to pull down policy.  Inspecting the ConfigMgr client on the affected PC reveals that under the " Advanced " tab the client is assigned to a site, and the " Discover "...

When using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 some clients may be assigned to the incorrect sitecode.  You may also see entries similar to those below in the locationservices.log file: DhcpGetOriginalSubnetMask entry point not supported. Current AD site of machine is ADSite1 This client might...

When running the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 client agent on a Windows Server 2003 based computer you may notice one or more of the following symptoms: · Task Manager does not open. · Windows Explorer becomes unresponsive. · The computer stops responding to new RDP connection attempts ·...

Here's another new Opalis KB article you might want to be aware of.  With this issue, when navigating to one or more specific policies using the Opalis Integration Server Client, the client becomes unresponsive for a long period of time before recovering or does not recover at all. When viewing...

Here's a ConfigMgr 2007 issue I had recently that was caused by an known issue with IIS.  I wanted to publicize this here so that it might help others who run into this problem. Issue: Configuration Manager 2007 clients may fail to download packages from a Server Share Distribution Point with a...

We recognize that Windows 7 is an opportunity for organizations to reduce their costs, improve security, and improve productivity. Windows 7 helps achieve these goals. However, organizations do not maximize the return on investment of Windows 7 without modern infrastructure to support it. We want organizations...

International Client Packs (ICPs) contain international-language clients to use with System Center Configuration Manager (SC Config Mgr) 2007 SP2. ICP downloads contain only the Config Mgr client files, not the English-language SC Config Mgr 2007 SP2, which is required. ICP1 contains the following languages...

Purpose: This post is intended to explain how client approval works when a Mixed Mode Configuration Manager 2007 site is configured to automatically approve clients in trusted domains and to offer insight into how to troubleshoot scenarios where this is not working as expected.  The configuration...

Looks like our very own Bhaskar Krishnan has written a great post on troubleshooting some of the frequently encountered issues relating to client content download problems in System Center Configuration Manager 2007.  It outlines the scenario, then takes you through how to track the various processes...

Our very own Buz Brodin, a Senior Escalation Engineer here on our System Center Configuration Manager support team, recently posted a great video that goes through some demos and some tips and tricks for setting up and using Out Of Band Management with Intel AMT enabled clients.  If you haven't...

We’ve seen this issue come up a couple times so I wanted to give it a mention here just in case you run into it.  The problem is that you may notice Software Deployments are not working for a small percentage of your Configuration Manager clients and you may notice that the status of the problem...

We published a new KB article last week that describes an update rollup package that enables Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to support clients that are running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7: KB974236 - Update rollup for System Center Configuration Manager...

Sometimes the most challenging part of the Configuration Manager 2007/SMS 2003 deployment phase can be ensuring that the client successfully reports to the site server. We occasionally see these issues here in support, typically either as cases for clients not reporting after the client installation...

I had an interesting case the other day and since I didn’t see it documented anywhere I thought I’d mention it here in case anyone else runs into it.  What can happen is that when you try to install the Configuration Manager 2007 agent on a workgroup machine when connected over Internet, which does...