NOTE Second workaround added 1/23/2013. See Alternate Workaround section at the end of this article. Consider the following scenario: - You set System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) Client Agent\Computer Agent\Show notifications for new...

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...

Hi everyone, Terry McKinney here.  Below is a quick-reference document that illustrates the MOST COMMON site to site data replication flow path in SMS 2003 and ConfigMgr 2007. There are exceptions to this flow path of course so see the document referenced...

Hello System Center, In this post I'd like to share information gleaned from recent support incidents regarding the Configuration Manager 2007 Software Updates Client Agent. The goal for this post is to help by providing details on common problems driving...

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...

Updated May 3 rd 2010 by chughes... This article seeks to offer a more complete solution on not only how to capture various registry settings from a client into the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 database, but to also demo how to build a sample...

If you’re using the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Operating System Deployment feature to deploy operating system images in secondary sites, here’s some information you may find interesting: Issue: During the deployment of a System Center Configuration...

I just got back from a week long vacation and I’m still trying to get caught up, so if you’re wondering what happened to all the posts you’re used to seeing around here then that’s why it’s been pretty dead lately.  It may continue to be slow for...

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...

Last week we had two new Knowledge Base articles on System Center Configuration Manager 2007. Both deal with recurring advertisements or maintenance windows starting an hour earlier or an hour later than expected when the time is changed because of Daylight...

Many enterprise customers today rely on a consistent company screen saver, and while that's usually something that's rolled out with the standard corporate desktop image, what if you need to change it later?  You can use Group Policy for that, but...

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...

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...

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...

I was asked a few days ago if ConfigMgr or SMS could inventory mapped drives, and while the answer is yes we don't do it by default. In effect we report the logical disk but not mapped drives. In order to inventory mapped drives we first need to extend...

Over on Steve Rachui's Manageability blog he has a great write-up on how to minimize your network utilization by enabling Multicast for your OSD  image deployments.  If you're deploying to a lot of machines at the same time then you'll definitely...

When a Task Sequence is created via the "Create New Task Sequence Wizard", the Task Sequence may fail if the Windows OS being deployed is Windows 7 and the reference Windows 7 WIM image being deployed was manually created and then captured using...

When running a SCCM 2007 SP2 Task Sequence with a " Capture User State " task that utilizes USMT 4, files are properly captured and restored but settings may not be. The SMSTS.log will not show any errors, however the scanstate.log will show the following...

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...

We’ve seen this issue come up a couple times so I wanted to give it a mention here just in case you run into it.  The problem is that you may notice Software Deployments are not working for a small percentage of your Configuration Manager clients...

When creating an Update List and downloading software updates for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, some but not all of them may fail with the error "invalid certificate signature" in the confirmation page of the Software Updates Deployment Wizard. This is...

Note: There is an updated version of this article over at the Configuration Manager OSD Support Team Blog . For the latest version, please visit the below article: When deploying Windows Server 2008 using a Configuration Manager OSD Task Sequence,...

We have received a number of requests for more information in response to the following two blog posts: Known Issue: Supernets in Active Directory sites used as site boundaries Some ConfigMgr 2007 clients never install packages, report status of “Waiting...

When managing SMS or SCCM clients that are in a workgroup, clients will need access to a WINS server the contains the proper entries for the SMS/SCCM site systems.  If a WINS is not available, as an alternative you can edit the LMHOSTS and HOSTS...

Just a quick heads up that the documentation library for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 has been updated.  The current version now contains updated content for Configuration Manager 2007, Configuration Manager 2007 SP1, Configuration Manager...