With SMS you can run a hardware inventory and discover all kinds of cool information about the computers in your environment. Without going into too much detail, SMS does this by querying WMI and collecting the results. So how does SMS know what exactly...

If you follow Jeff Gilberts blog then you probably saw his post about the importance of reading release notes any time you're installing something new, but I want to bring your attention to one specific issue addressed in the release notes for System...

One question we seem to get around here a lot concerns the installation of ACS. You put in the CD, you install Audit Collection Services and do everything the deployment guide tells you, but then in the console you can't find your Audit Reports. What...

This isn't necessarily System Center specific and some of you may already be aware of this, but you can now request a hotfix via our hotfix request web submission form: https://support.microsoft.com/contactus2/emailcontact.aspx?scid=sw;en;1410&WS...

Many of the calls we get in customer support involve advanced client push installations so I thought I'd go ahead and take a minute to publish the troubleshooting doc we have covering this. This is already published in our Knowledge Base as article 925282...

Here's a list of the new SMS, MOM and System Center KB articles we published recently. Hope these help! http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=935898 : Error message when you try to access a Web page view in the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Web Console...

UPDATE (10/10): There's a fix available for this issue available per Knowledge Base article 941820 . You can download this fix without having to contact product support by requesting it at this site: https://support.microsoft.com/contactus2/emailcontact...

Brief Description The Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Management Pack update is an update to the previously released System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007. This update addresses few...

Just an FYI that if you ran into an issue starting back in June where you see the Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition x86 Service Pack 2 (SP2) installation as an option when you scan the machine at the online Microsoft Updates website but cannot select...

Yea, I know, this is somewhat off topic but I thought this would be something you'd appreciate a heads up on: 938979: An update is available that improves the performance and reliability of Windows Vista - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx...

We are pleased to announce the creation of the Manageability TechCenter and the improved functionality of the Systems Management Server TechCenter . With the creation of the Manageability TechCenter , you can now find task-based and best-practices...

To kick off what I hope will become a regular feature on the SMS & MOM team blog, here are the new KB articles we published for the prior week. Actually this first list goes back to the beginning of August so you can get caught up, but my goal going...

Update: 8/14/2007 4:00 pm KB 941440 has been published for this issue. Please reference the KB for more complete information regarding this issue. You may access the KB via this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941440/en-us Original post...