Just in case you missed it, Carol Bailey has posted yet another fantastic article on certificates over on the http://blogs.technet.com/configmgrteam blog.  If certificates are as confusing to you as they are to me then you'll definitely want to give...

Last week we had two new Knowledge Base articles on System Center Configuration Manager 2007.  The links and titles are below: ======== KB967506 - Client push fails when the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Management Point is installed in...

Here is an interesting one I saw the other day. We had a Management Point setup to support Internet clients, and while everything seemed to be setup correctly we kept seeing the error  “ Call to HttpSendRequestSync failed for port 443 with...

Over on the Office Resource Kit blog it looks like Ross posted the latest draft of the article describing how to deploy Office 2007 using System Center Configuration Manager 2007.  He's looking for feedback so if editing tech documents is one of...

Here's another cool webcast we have coming up on managing virtual solutions using OpsMgr and ConfigMgr.  This one is on March 24th (Tuesday).  Details and a registration link are below: ======== Language(s): English. Product(s): Other. Audience...

Microsoft's very own Carol Bailey is at it again with another great Configuration Manager post over on http://blogs.technet.com/configmgrteam .  This time she talks about something I need a lot of help with - patience.  I don't know how many...

Just a quick note about an upcoming event we have planned that you may be interested in.  This one is taking place next Tuesday on February 10th in three locations across California: Irvine San Francisco Sacramento I know most of you probably aren...

Last week we had two new System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Knowledge Base articles - The links and titles are below: ======== KB960448 - The Asset Intelligence Catalog Sync Service of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 cannot...

Over on the System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog , Carol Bailey posted some great information on Native Mode and certificates including a couple examples of multi-CA hierarchies.  If this sounds like you then you'll definitely want to check...

I know many of you will probably be heading to Las Vegas for MMS 2009 and if so we have all the breakout sessions listed here .  For those of you new to MMS: The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) is the premier event of the year for IT Professionals...

Carol Bailey posted a great article on using a public CA for your native mode certificates over on the Configuration Manager product team blog so if this is something you're interested in then you'll definitely want to check it out.  I have a brief...

Hi Everyone, my name is Prakash and I recently worked an interesting case that I wanted to share with you here. The issue was that the ConfigMgr 2007 database had suddenly grown quite large and threatened to consume all available disk space. This turned...

Last week we had four new System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Knowledge Base articles - The links and titles are below: ======== KB960065 - Updates are not deployed to some clients when you use WSUS or SUM to deploy updates in System Center Configuration...

Earlier today I posted about an issue we're seeing with some degree of frequency in our OpsMgr support group so I figure why leave the ConfigMgr crowd out?  This one seems to be fairly popular so maybe if you happen to run into it you'll now know...

I came across an interesting issue the other day regarding an error you might get when attempting to import the Asset Intelligence catalog.  In my case the SMS provider was on a remote server and when we did the import we would get the following...

Last week we had six new System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Knowledge Base articles - The links and titles are below: ======== KB961663 - If a Configuration Manager 2007 offline task sequence media is used to deploy an operating system on...

Our very own Steve Rachui has a cool post over on his blog that talks about how to install patches manually on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 machines.  While that may sound trivial, if you've every tried this with Vista or Win2K8 SCCM patches...

Here's an interesting issue that our very own Frank Rojas ran into recently concerning OSD on a Dell Latitude laptop. I don't think this issue is necessarily isolated to this particular machine but the troubleshooting process would likely be the same...

Here's an interesting issue I saw the other day that I thought I'd mention here just in case you run into it.  I'm sure you're already familiar with all the client installation properties that can be specified when installing the ConfigMgr client...

Last week we had one new ConfigMgr 2007 article and one new SMS 2003 based KB.  The links and titles are below: ======== KB961726 - Available command line switches for PatchInstall.exe Sys Mgmt Svr Ent Ed 2003 EN  EN-US KB956944 - Error message...

For the week of 12-21 through 12-27 we had two new ConfigMgr 2007 articles.  The links and titles are below: ======== KB959040 - System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 systems cannot provision AMT 2.2/2.6 clients in PKI mode and...

Yesterday I mentioned that SQL Server 2005 SP3 is now supported for SMS 2003 and ConfigMgr 2007 but as an interesting side note did you know that if you move to SP3 of SQL 2005 you're still not at the latest patch level?  There's actually a Cumulative...

Just a quick FYI that the Configuration Manager team recently completed testing and SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 is now officially supported as a site database for the following products: Systems Manager Server 2003 Service Pack 3 System Center Configuration...

For the week of 12-14 through 12-20 we had one new Systems Management Server 2003 Knowledge Base article. The link and title is below: ======== KB956307 - Error message when you install the Inventory Tool for Dell Update (ITDU) on an SMS 2003 site...

Many of us are beginning to pack things up and head out for the holidays so I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I'm doing the same.  I'm going to be out until January 5th so if the posts start to dry up then that's probably why, although...