Here's another great OSD related tip from Frank Rojas, a Senior Support Engineer in our Charlotte, NC office.  If you're seeing strange reboots with your deployments then maybe what you really have is a network problem: ======== Issue: When performing...

Here's a great tip from Frank Rojas, a real life support engineer from Charlotte, North Carolina. If you currently work with Vista or newer images or are planning to in the future you'll definitely want to take a look at this one. ======== Issue...

Here's another great tip from Frank Rojas, one of our top Support Engineers out in Charlotte, North Carolina. If you planning on doing a little work with bootable flash drive media you'll want to read this first: ======== Issue: After creating a...

Today's tip comes from Vinay Pamnani, a Support Engineer in our System Center Configuration Manager 2007 group. I didn't see a whole lot documented on these error codes so if you're seeing a 8004402F or a 80041010 then you might want to check where your...

Here's a great FYI sent in by Lenny Wile, one of our top OpsMgr guru's from the Las Colinas, Texas office: ======== Issue: When viewing the Computer views of the Monitoring pane in the Operations Manager 2007 Operations Console, the Root Management Server...

I saw an article describing how to move the DB for Ops Manager 2007 but I didn't see one for Configuration Manager so I decided to write one up.  Really the process is about the same but I wanted to have something product specific. ======== INTRODUCTION...

Here's yet another tip from Frank Rojas, this one concerning errors you might receive when trying to edit Run Command Line tasks: ======== Issue: When attempting to edit or modify Run Command Line tasks in SCCM 2007 SP1 OSD Task Sequences, the following...

Here's a great tip from Frank Rojas, a real life Support Engineer in North Carolina. If you having trouble with Remote Desktop on some of your clients and can't figure out why then this may be your issue: ======== Issue: Remote control is setup...

Here's an interesting Operations Manager tip that comes from Michael Sadoff, a real life Support Escalation Engineer from Charlotte, North Carolina. If you're running the DFS Management Pack and getting some false-positives then you'll want to check this...

The folks over on the Operations Manager 2007 Product Team blog recently released a couple posts about some issues you may be seeing in that product.  In case you missed them I have some  info and links below: ======== 1. Grayed out healthy...

Here's an interesting issue written up by Scott Ellison, a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in our Charlotte, NC office.  I already posted this to our WSUS support blog but I figured you might miss it if I didn't post it here as well: ========...

Here's a really neat tip sent by Jose Rodas, a real life OpsManager Support Engineer in Charlotte, North Carolina.  If you've ever wanted to be altered whenever a new network file share is created or modified or deleted then he can show you how:...

The OpsMgr 2007 product team just announced their new Certificate Generation Wizard over on the MOMTeam blog .  If you need to obtain certificates for non-domain joined agents then this is the tool for you: ======== We have created a new UI tool...

Here's a cool find created by Dennis Donahoe, a Senior Support Engineer from out Charlotte, NC office.  If you're running into problems getting reporting installed then this may be your issue: ======== SYMPTOMS During the install of Microsoft Systems...

Some of our folks out in the field got together and put up a fantastic OpsManager website out at http://www.opsmanjam.com and if you haven't seen it already you should definitely check it out.  They're posting unofficial management packs, management...

Just a heads up that we recently published a new document titled System Center Configuration Manager 2007: Sample Configurations and Common Performance Related Questions.   It's designed to "provide an overview of sample hardware configurations...

The Product Group has completed testing on an updated PreloadPkgOnSite.exe tool for ConfigMgr 2007 and I’m glad to announce its been posted to the web for download as a standalone tool release!  In case you're not familiar with this, the Preload...

We are pleased to announce the release of our first update to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008  (MDT 2008).  And overview and the download link is below: ======== Overview Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 Update 1 unifies the tools and...

A few months ago Brian Huneycut wrote a post titled ConfigMgr 2007: Current issues with Wake On LAN (WOL) and we now have a hotfix to address the issue.  We released the  hotfix under KB953148 but the fix is actually in SP1 so if you're current...

Just another quick FYI that we recently released a new DCM configuration pack that uses ENERGY STAR program criteria to assess display and hibernation settings on Windows XP or Windows Vista operating systems. This Configuration Pack, which is endorsed...

Just a quick FYI that the ADMP for MOM 2005 version 1.1 is now available on the download center. The major improvements in the new version of the ADMP are described briefly in the table below: Improvement Short Description ...

As I was making my normal Wednesday morning rounds I discovered that the OpsManager product team has a new post on their excellent Infrastructure Planning Guide for OpsMgr 2007 Service Pack 1.  Whether you're designing a new rollout or evaluating...

Ed has asked if a few of us could help out with his survey by posting a link to it here. I'm happy to oblige: Greetings Blog Readers, My name is Ed Jolly, and I am a director in the Commercial Technical Support (CTS) organization at Microsoft...

OK, I know this has nothing to do with SMS or MOM but with the Olympics starting tomorrow I thought some of you might be interested in this. I love watching the Olympics and the fact that NBC's site is running some really cool Microsoft tech is icing...

If you're running any of our System Center products (including OpsMgr 2007 and ConfigMgr 2007) in a virtualized environment or if you're planning on doing so in the future, you'll want to be aware of this, and since this involves changes to our support...