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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...

Cumulative Update 1 for ConfigMgr 2012 is now available. Below are the issues that are fixed: Administrator Console When a new distribution point is added to a package that contains more than 100 existing distribution points, the new distribution point cannot be added, and you receive the following error...

On a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) client computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2, the Systems Management Server (SMS) Agent Host service (Ccmexec.exe) crashes intermittently. Additionally, the following error is logged in the event log: Log Name: Application Source...

Microsoft’s own Kevin McKinnerney just published a new test lab guide on ConfigMgr 2007 R3. This Test Lab Guide (TLG) allows you to expand upon the Base Configuration test lab to build a functioning proof of concept environment for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 with...

The latest version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit—version 2012— is now available for download. Visit the Download Center to download MDT 2012. Deploy Windows 7, Office 2010, Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Windows Server “8” Beta and Windows Server 2008 R2 with the newly released Microsoft Deployment...

Just a quick note to let you know that we just released a new ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 hotfix that addresses and issue where inaccurate software metering reports are generated on a primary System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 site server: The software metering processor on a primary Microsoft Systems...

Consider the following scenario: 1. You deploy many updates to a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) client. 2. You perform an operation that generates the WM_TIMECHANGE message from the client computer. For example, you perform one of the following operations: - You...

Consider the following scenario: - You build a three-tier Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 hierarchy. - The hierarchy has many distribution points. For example, the hierarchy has more than 5,000 distribution points. - You create a package at the central site for software distribution...

I was just reading through the latest news on the Nexus SC blog and saw that they announced the availability of the ConfigMgr 2012 Beta 2 VHD yesterday.  If you’re working with ConfigMgr 2012 now or have any plans to in the future then you’ll probably want to check this out: This download comes...

Just in case you missed it, Jeff Wettlaufer (Senior Technical Product Manager for System Center) just announced the immediate availability of SCUP 2011: We have released System Center Updates Publisher 2011 to the web today. This release was primarily driven by customer feedback over the past year. It...

We blogged this issue a couple weeks ago but now there’s a hotfix available to resolve the issue: ===== Consider the following scenario: You create a task sequence on a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server. You add lots of Install Software steps to the task...

Consider the following scenario: Scenario 1 You have a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server. You install hotfix 2213600 on the site server. You use the Import New Driver Wizard to import a set of drivers on to the site server. You specify a category and...

Consider the following two scenarios: Scenario 1 You have a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) site server. You install an Asset Intelligence synchronization point on the site server. In the installation process, the Asset Intelligence synchronization point makes...

Just a quick FYI that the Configuration Manager Writing Team announced that the Configuration Manager 2007 documentation library and the Configuration Manager 2012 documentation library have been updated on the web.  The latest content has Updated: May 1, 2011 at the top of the topic. What's New...

A few weeks back I announced the System Center Blog Aggregator app for Windows Phone 7 and today I wanted to let you know that it was now available for all you Android users out there as well.  I won’t go into all the details as you can read that at the link above, but here are a couple screen shots...

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...

Consider the following scenario: You configure a maintenance window for a Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) client. You configure an advertisement to run on the client computer within the maintenance window. The client computer starts or awakens from hibernation...

The Configuration Manager team is pleased to release a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Physical to Virtual Migration Toolkit. This tool is designed to assist organizations in their migrations from Configuration Manager 2007, to Configuration Manager 2012. For all the details and a download...

Ever since Windows Phone 7 was launched late last year there’s been a growing buzz surrounding Microsoft’s new phone OS, and with the recent announcement that the Windows Phone Marketplace had surpassed 10,000 apps in those 4-5 months and was growing fast (now well over 12,000 ) I took a look said “Hey...

Did you hear the news?  ConfigMgr 2012 will support Windows Phone 7, Symbian, iOS (iPhones and iPads) and Android-based devices , and the new Beta 2 is available for download starting today.  From the download site: Consumerization is a growing challenge for IT organizations. System Center...

The extensions enable Configuration Manager 2007 to consume Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) data streams, assess systems for compliance, and generate report results in SCAP format by taking advantage of the compliance checking capabilities inherent in the desired configuration management...

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...

If you're looking for some guidance and best practices on how to author and maintain high quality System Center Update Publisher (SCUP) catalogs then you're at the right place.  Our very own Jason Lewis has created an authoring guide that will answer just about every question you could have including...

Just an FYI that we published a great whitepaper on how to implementing an effective Power Management strategy with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3: The purpose of this white paper is to describe how Microsoft IT (MSIT) successfully deployed Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007...

Coming from the System Center Configuration Manager documentation team is news that the Configuration Manager documentation library ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680651.aspx ) has been updated on the Web with updates from September and R3 content in October. Topics that were updated...