The Availability Reporting Management Pack (version 05.0.5000.0000) has been released to the download site http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8a61d369-b785-4550-bde8-84e734ec5e40&DisplayLang=en on schedule. For background...

The product teams continue to work diligently on this issue. They are getting close to root cause on this problem and more information will be coming soon. In the short term, there is a new release of the wsusscan.cab file which has proven to help...

As we near a re-release of the Availability Reporting MP for MOM, I wanted to take this opportunity to discuss some of the fixes that have taken place, and unfortunately some that will not be addressed in this version. We are on currently on schedule...

I’d like to share information regarding how SMS 2003 Management Points leverage IIS. Lately Product Support has seen an increasing number of issues with IIS account entanglements at the root of the problem. Unfortunately it is beyond this blog to...

Good Day, Everyone. For today's post, we wanted to review our top call generators and areas of high customer pain in the MOM space. The data we will be using is the final Q4 case data (April-June). During this time period, our top 3 areas were Reporting...

Systems Management Server 2003 client computers experience slow performance when you run the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates (ITMU) http://support.microsoft.com/?id=924148 SYMPTOMS Microsoft is aware through recent customer feedback...

<< 9-27-2006 - An updated post for this topic is now available here >> There is a current issue some customers are seeing whereby when the "SMS Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates" (ITMU) is run to either scan for or deploy security...