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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’s Console, the resulting package will generate the...

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 deployment status when you drill into the status...

Here’s a quick heads up on a new Configuration Manager  2007 KB article we published this morning: Symptoms After you install the System Center Configuration Manager Console on a localized version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), you receive the error "MMC Cannot initialize snap-in"...

I was over on the ConfigMgr product team blog and saw that Microsoft’s own Min Yang just published a great post on some of the enhancements they made in the 2012 console that will help you find things much faster than ever before.  If you missed and want to see some of the great thins that are headed...

On a system that is running Windows 7 x86 (32 bit) the System Center Service Manager 2010 Console fails to launch.  Additionally, The following event is logged in the Application log: Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Error Event Category: (100) Event ID: 1000 Description: Faulting application...

Here's a system Center Configuration Manager 2007 issue that seems to pop up every so often here in support and since I didn't see it documented anywhere publicly I thought I'd post a heads up here. Symptoms Advertisement instances do not display in a remote ConfigMgr 2007 console. The Advertisement...

Here's a unique issue I came across the other day that I thought you might like hearing about. In this case, we were unable to connect to a ConfigMgr 2007 Secondary Site server from Tools => Service Manager unless we were using a domain admin account. When attempting to connect to the Secondary...

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...

We had two new Knowledge Base articles published for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 last week.  The first involves and issue where when the time changes to or from Daylight Saving Time, the SMS_Inbox_Monitor or SMS_Outbox_Monitor components may not poll for new content in Microsoft System...

Just a heads up that we have a fairly new virtual lab that will walk you through using the SCCM 2007 Administrator Console to verify the site configuration, identify the Software distribution and maintenance windows feature of SCCM 2007, identify the Software updates and WSUS integration feature of SCCM...

Notification balloons seem to be a frequent topic of feedback from customers. There may pop up too often, or only certain users should get them, or the timing isn’t configurable enough. Lately we’ve had multiple customers asking for a very specific feature. The AdminUI for SCCM provides the ability...

Carol Bailey just posted a workaround for an issue where the out of band management console that is used to connect to AMT-based computers has a problem running on Windows XP SP2.  If this applies to you then you’ll definitely want to check this out: ======== It's recently come to our attention...