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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 allows client installation on Windows Server 2008...

Microsoft’s own Jason Githens (Senior Program Manager for Configuration Manager) just posted a great article over on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Blog where he talks about some of the best-practices for managing software updates in the upcoming release of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager...

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...

I can’t imagine why anyone would ever want to uninstall the best, most secure browser out there but hey, you never know.  If you ever find yourself in that position then MVP Bechir Gharbi just posted a great article on how to do just that over in the TechNet Wiki: Many people have blogged about...

Hi everyone, Lee Stevens here.  Sometimes, we have deadlines. The root word of deadlines? DEAD . This being said, I've been asked many times how packages can be tested in a quick manner without the added overhead of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr). The goal here is to make a...

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...

Here’s another great article I found while I was checking out what was new over on the TechNet Wiki this morning.  This one was written by Kim Ditto-Ehlert and shows you how to replace MSE with the FEP client using ConfigMgr 2007: Microsoft does not support uninstalling MSE via the normal FEP competitive...

After creating the article ConfigMgr 2007 Basic User Driven Installation Task Sequence Step by Step , I wanted to follow up with another article covering the Application Discovery and Mapping features in a UDI Task Sequence. This cool feature allows you to discover the applications installed on your...

Hi everyone, my name is Fei Xia and I wanted to take this opportunity to show you how to successfully install or move the Configuration Manager 2007 site database to a clustered Microsoft SQL Server instance. The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 site database can be installed or moved to a clustered...

On 64-bit operating systems, some IIS-based Configuration Manager 2007 roles (Management Point, etc.) require 64-bit ASP.NET components to be registered.  If we register 32 bit components instead of 64 bit (only one can be registered at the same time), these Configuration Manager roles may stop...

Hi everyone, Anurag Shukla here.  The following article discusses how to move the Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr 2007) site database (DB) from a SQL Server 2005 SP2 based computer to a SQL Server 2008 based computer.  Note that this may not be the only way to successfully migrate the DB but...

On 64-bit operating systems, some IIS-based Configuration Manager 2007 roles (Management Point, etc.) require 64-bit ASP.NET components to be registered. If we register 32 bit components instead of 64-bit (only one can be registered at the same time), these Configuration Manager roles may stop working...

The folks over on the Configuration Manager product team blog just posted a fantastic article on what Client Health is and how to use it in System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2: It’s often the case that many customer-reported issues with a Configuration Manager feature are because the Configuration...

Operating System Deployment (OSD) in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 offers several options for deploying images to target systems. One option includes support for imaging systems that are completely disconnected from the network using stand-alone media . You will also see this referred to as...

Here’s a great new TechNet Wiki article written by MVP Marcelo Sincic.  The native language is Portuguese but if you’re running the awesome new Bing Bar than a quick click of the Translator icon will transform it on the fly to perfect English.  Or whatever language you like for that matter...

Are you looking for the best way to deploy Forefront Endpoint Protection updates?  If so then our very own Kevin Saye just published a great article on using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to do exactly that over on the TechNet Wiki . He walks you through the entire process start to finish...

We always seem to get a lot of questions regarding how to configure Configuration Manager 2007 for the best performance and while we've had this information published in TechNet for a while I thought it would be worth a mention here.  Whether you're setting up ConfigMgr 2007 for the first time or...

When booting into a PC that has had Task Sequence Prestaged Media staged onto it, the Task Sequence may fail almost immediately with the following error message: Unable to read task sequence configuration disk. For more information, please contact your system administrator or helpdesk operator. Usually...

One of the components of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM 2007) Operating System Deployment (OSD) is boot images. Boot images in SCCM are really just WinPE images and are used during the operating system deployment process to boot computers so that an operating system can be loaded. For...

Just a quick heads up that our very own System Center Configuration Manager Support Engineer Vinay Pamnani recently published a great post about how to add a known/unknown computer to a specified collection during OS Deployment.  If you haven't seen you'll probably want to check it out: Have you...

Steve Rachui has another great Configuration Manager post over on his blog, this time about how to create a web page that allows OSD users to setup imaging themselves without having to use the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 console: OSD is a powerful imaging tool but setting up systems to be...

I know this isn’t necessarily specific to Configuration Manager but I wanted to let you know of a new support offering that we're rolling out. I am sure many of you have contacted Microsoft for support in the past and are aware of our various support offerings. We have Consumer support, Professional...

Suppose you want to use the USMT 4 feature of hardlinking in a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Task Sequence, but you notice that the " Capture User State "/" Capture User Files and Settings " and " Restore User State "/" Restore User Files and Settings " tasks do not have any options to perform...