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Opalis Integration Server provides a robust means of integrating with products such as Event Management Systems that can monitor hardware and software technology components but what monitors Opalis Integration Server? Many aspects of the Opalis Integration Server environment can be monitored by Event...

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...

With the R2 release of System Center Configuration Manager 2007, the product now supports the use of SQL Reporting Services as a reporting solution.  This is the direction for reporting going forward and it offers a good number of exciting possibilities for building great custom reports.  In...

I was having trouble finding this post on the old SMSandMOM blog without a direct link, and saw this question asked on an alias so I thought it would be worth posting again on the new blog site for ConfigMgr 2007. This post describes how to move the Site Database for Configuration Manager 2007 to another...

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...

This document was created to help in troubleshooting Configuration Manager Service Pack 2 (SP2) install failures. This document is not entirely specific to Service Pack 2 and can apply to Service Pack 1 installs, upgrades from SMS 2003 to SCCM, and future service pack or Configuration Manager versions...

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...

Back on Tuesday the Configuration Manager product team posted a great article on how to manually create a Microsoft License Statement File for Import into Asset Intelligence: We have received a number of requests from customers who would like to create their own Microsoft License file for import, similar...

The Solution Accelerator team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP). Designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated discovery...

From our very own Steve Rachui comes another great System Center tip.  This one covers how to get a Configuration Manager 2007 Task Sequence to rerun: There are well known methods to force an advertisement to rerun – including several add-on tools available for the SMS or SCCM console.  To...

I get asked about this every once in a while so I thought I would post it here in case it’s something you might find helpful as well.  This report will contain the last login time on a particular computer along with the user who logged in to it as well as some additional details. To create the report...

Here’s a tip sent to me by a buddy here at Microsoft.  Apparently we don’t document this anywhere so I thought for now we could at least put it out on the blog. Summary: This article describes how to determine which version of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 is installed on your server...

Back on Monday I posted Part 1 of my Guide to Software Updates Deployment in Configuration Manager 2007 and below you will find the conclusion, Part 2: Deployments Configuration Manager 2007 no longer uses advertisements for delivering software updates. Software update deployments are now used as the...

I get a lot of requests for information about how to do software update deployments in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 so I thought I would put together a quick guide explaining the process. It turned out to be quite large so I broke it into two parts: Part 1 is below and covers Update Lists...

Carol has been busy today, now with another post on how the Configuration Manager Product Team has updated their blog post for publishing the CRL on a separate Web server because the instructions were missing the variable <DeltaCRLAllowed> in the paths, which is needed for delta CRLs. According...

I was catching up on some reading over on the Configuration Manager 2007 Team Blog and saw they posted a few updates to some of the documentation they’ve been working on.  The first thing was a heads up on a whitepaper that discusses how Microsoft IT manages and deploys PKI internally: Customers...

When you experience issues with your Windows Server 2008 Web Server (IIS) role, including 401, 403, or 500 errors in the IIS logs and MPControl.log, a Configuration Manager 2007 site system relying on the IIS system may also experience issues due to the various SCCM roles that rely on IIS functioning...