Today's tip comes from Michael Sadoff , one of the top Senior Support Escalation Engineers in our North Carolina office.  If you're seeing mutual authentication fail and notice that a node in an RMS cluster registers the ServicePrincipalName (SPN...

Yesterday we released a new document to help you create custom reports, determine which Configuration Manager 2007 SQL views contain the information you need for your reports, and identify the path between the necessary SQL views and determine what columns...

Just an FYI that we recently released a new Infrastructure Planning and Design guide for Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 for R2.  So what's an Infrastructure Planning and Design guide?  Glad you asked.  Here's the official description: The...

The Operations Manager Team Blog just announced that version 6.0.6441.0 of the SQL Management Pack has released.  It offers support for SQL Server 2008 and much much more.  I have an excerpt below but you can read the entire post here . ===...

I want to highlight an issue with the Exchange 2007 Management Pack (MP) in terms of disk monitoring that we see every now and then. Essentially the MP looks at all disks and generates alerts if any of the disks are low on space.  The only problem...

We had three updated and three new Knowledge Base articles for the week.  Links and titles are below: ======== Sys Center Operation Mgr 2007 EN 947691 - When you try to install a System Center Operations Manager 2007 agent on a workgroup computer...

Just a quick heads-up on an issue we're starting to see more of these days.  The reports in the Exchange 2007 Management Pack (MP) look great and work great most of the time but since they run using the raw data in the Data Warehouse (DW) they can...

Here's another ConfigMgr 2007 OSD tip from Frank Rojas out in Charlotte, North Carolina. If you have a Task Sequence that fails almost immediately after it boots into WinPE with an 0x80004005 error then you'll want to check this one out: ======== ...

Here's a cool tip from Ritesh Grover, one of our top support engineers on our Operations Manager team.  If you're looking for a script to quickly get a list of the computers that are in Maintenance Mode then this should do the trick: ======== To...

Yesterday I posted a step-by-step on how to enable Multicast for your OS Deployments (OSD) so I thought I'd also take a sec to point out the log files used to troubleshoot the same.  These log files, as well as the standard logs for troubleshooting...

Here's a great tip from Nicholas Dodge, a senior support engineer on our Manageability team.  In this tip he tells how to configure the Windows Firewall exceptions for SCE 2007: ======== If a firewall is enabled in the deployment environment of System...

We had two updated Knowledge Base articles for the week.  Links and titles are below: ======== Sys Mgmt Svr Ent Ed 2003 EN 941820 - NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing does not work correctly on a computer that is running the SMS 2003 Service Pack...

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...

Looks like OpsMgr 2007 won another award.  This time, Paul Ross over on the System Center Team Blog talks about how OpsMgr 2007 won the Gold Award for Exchange Server Monitoring Tool: ======== I'm pleased to announce that System Center Operations...

Here's another cool tip on OSD Task Sequences that Frank Rojas made me aware of.  Is there anything he doesn't know about these things?  If there is I don't know what it is. ======== Issue: When using SMS 2003 Operating System Deployment with...

Here's another OpsMgr 2007 tip from Milan Jajal, a support engineer in our Manageability group.  I hate to steal his thunder, but he basically says that if you're seeing 570 security audit failures sourced from Microsoft Operations Manager then you...

Just a quick FYI on a recent Knowledge Base article we released describing the supported configurations for using the same WSUS instance to support both FCS v1 and ConfigMgr 2007.  I'll spare you all the gory details other than to point out the basic...

Over on the System Center product team blog they posted a really cool video where Jeff Wettlaufer (Technical Product Manager for System Center) chats with Brad Anderson (General Manager of MSD) about what's going on in terms of desktop virtualization...

If you're in charge of administering ConfigMgr or OpsMgr or SMS or MOM or whatever, chances are you're pretty concerned with making sure you're aware of any new Knowledge Base articles as quickly as possible.  That's why you subscribe to this blog...

Here's neat tip I haven't seen before on PXE booting bare metal machine using the new Unknown Computer Support feature in ConfigMgr 2007 R2.  This one comes from Clifton Hughes in our Irving, Texas site: ======== Issue:   Bare metal clients...

Today's System Center Operations Manager 2007 tip comes from Milan Jajal, one of our top OpsMgr support engineers.  If you created a custom alert view to show only new alerts but you're seeing closed ones too then this may be your issue: =======...

OK, I know this isn't the type of thing I'd normally cover on this blog but since all of you will likely be affected by Windows 7 in one way or another I thought you might find this interesting in an FYI sort of way.  Apparently over on the Windows...

Here's a good tip from Frank Rojas, one of our Senior Support Engineers from Charlotte, North Carolina.  This one concerns installing Office 2007 as an Install Software task in an OSD Task Sequence so if you either planning on doing this or are trying...

We had four updated SMS Knowledge Base articles for the week.  Links and titles are below: ======== Sys Mgmt Svr Ent Ed 2003 EN 870652 - Systems Management Server 2003 software updates now use Update.exe Published - Updated EN-US SMS 1.2 EN 164353...

Ever tried to do an OSD with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and have it fail "Task sequence cannot continue after reboot because TS Manager is not configured to auto-start or GINA is not installed?" If so then check out this tip from Frank Rojas...