Please join us for a high level discussion into Microsoft software investments designed to cover most of the major product lines.  This will be a 35,000 foot view into the following areas: Windows Family Virtualization Office System Unified Communications...

If you’ve been following the blogging efforts of the System Center support and product teams for any length of time then you know we have quite a few different blogs based on the technology or product we focus on.  For example, we have the App-V...

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...

You find that you are unable to provision AMT devices in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 using an external certificate provided by VeriSign.  However, using your Internal CA you find that you can successfully provision new machines. ...

Just in case you somehow happened to miss the announcement, we made Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 available to MSDN and TechNet Subscribers as well as Volume License customers yesterday .  I've been running it for a few...

For those of you who sign-in to comment on the TechNet Blogs, there is a change coming on January 27 th 1:00 pm (PST) regarding user accounts and profiles. Please click here to read about this change. If you have questions please leave a comment on the...

This is a general guide on properly setting up and troubleshooting the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007) PXE Service Point.  Common errors that are seen at the PXE boot screen when the PXE Service Point is either not configured...

This is an oldie but a goodie that I thought was worth a mention here.  We originally published this last year but if you haven't seen or heard about it then it's worth a quick look. ===== Microsoft's own Steve Rachui recently posted a great article...

I know this isn’t necessarily specific to OOB issues 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....

The Intel Core vPro processor Management Pack for System Center Service Manager 2010 is used to provide end users of System Center Service Manager access to KVM Remote Control, IDE-Redirection and Power Control on clients enabled by Intel Core vPro processor...

I know I've mentioned this here before but in case you haven't seen the TechNet Wiki or had a chance to play with it, let me tell you, you should definitely check this out.  So what makes the TechNet Wiki so different?  Well for starters it...

What began a few years ago as an idea is now in front of you. Through the grassroots efforts and work of many, the TechNet Wiki has landed and the way we view content will never be the same. It is an experiment designed to increase the breadth, depth...

We recently noted some of the changes to support for ConfigMgr 2007 over on our support team blog but I wanted to also mention one big AMT related change here: AMT firmware versions 4.2 and 5.2 are supported on ConfigMgr 2007 SP1 and SP2 System Center...

This one is a little old but we get a lot of requests for step-by-steps- so I thought it would be worth another mention.  The System Center Configuration Manager team blog has a great post on requesting an AMT provisioning certificate with a Windows...

Have you ever wanted to learn more about how Active Management Technology (AMT) and System Center Configuration Manager 2007 work together?  If so our very own Steve Rachui posted some great flowcharts that should help explain how all the pieces...

In System Center Configuration Manager 2007, when you run the Discover Management Controllers Task on AMT Enabled Devices you may find that a .rpl file gets created and does not process out on Secondary site servers. Errors like the following occur: Skip...

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...

Here’s an issue we ran into a while back and since we now have an ideal place to post it I thought I’d throw it out here in the hopes that it'll help the next person.  Issue: AMT clients are "successfully" provisioned however their accounts...

Out of band management feature support in Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 provides powerful management control for computers that have the Intel vPro chip set and Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT) firmware versions 3.2.1 or later. Out of band...

At the recent Intel Developer Forum , some of the folks on the System Center product team sat down with our friends at Intel and recorded a demonstration of the integration between System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 and Intel vPro.  The...

Hi and welcome to our new Out of Band Management support team blog!  If you've been following our Configuration Manager support team blog then you've probably already seen a couple posts on AMT and OOB but due to the increasing popularity of this...