Many of us are beginning to pack things up and head out for the holidays so I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I'm doing the same.  I'm going to be out until January 5th so if the posts start to dry up then that's probably why, although...

I was asked a few days ago if ConfigMgr or SMS could inventory mapped drives, and while the answer is yes we don't do it by default. In effect we report the logical disk but not mapped drives. In order to inventory mapped drives we first need to extend...

Looks like there's a new installment in the OpsMgr by Example series over at http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/Blog/ and this time they take a look at deploying agents using ConfigMgr 2007.  I have the intro and a direct link below: ======== We return...

The OpsMgr product team just posted some good notes on getting the Web Console component installed on Windows Server 2008.  If you're struggling getting this to work then check out there post here for the requirements and a related hotfix. J.C. Hornbeck...

We've received a couple calls on this so I thought a quick post might help just in case you're using Windows SteadyState in your environment.  Anjana Kaku Tyagi wrote up the example below, and while the example is for the SMS client you should be...

Here's an interesting issue that was sent to me by Rohit Kaul on our OpsMgr 2007 team. This one concerns an issue where the disk space monitoring of a SQL database file does not trigger an alert if the database is set to Autogrow: ======== Issue...

Here's another issue you may want to be aware of if you're still using the old SUSFP scan engine to detect updates.  This one is from Clifton Hughes in our Las Colinas, Texas office: ======== Issue: In SMS 2003, if you are using SUSFP you may experience...

Here's an issue that Frank Rojas saw the other.  This particular issue involved a Dell E6400 but I thought it was worth a post because the same troubleshooting technique could be used for similar issues with other hardware as well: ======== Issue...

A few years ago a young manager at Microsoft had an idea; an idea to create a new blog that would help Microsoft's customers support and manage their SMS and MOM installations.  That was back in June of 2006 and that team manager's name was Britten...

For the week of 12-7 through 12-13 we had three new Knowledge Base articles: Two on OpsMgr 2007 and one on ConfigMgr 2007. Links and titles are below: ======== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=957135 You cannot change the alert resolution state...

Here's one that's probably going to be relatively uncommon but I came across it the other day and thought it would be worth a mention here: ======== Issue: The Transfer Site Settings Wizard in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 fails to transfer...

Looks like the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 User Assistance (UA) team has created a set of quizzes to help you assess your understanding of the dependencies and requirements for key features of Configuration Manager 2007.  Once you complete...

Here's an interesting tip sent to me by Milan Jajal on how to make ACS work on a port other than the default. I don't know how often something like this would be necessary but just in case you need it here are the steps: ======== Below are the changes...

Here's another issue I got from both Clifton Hughes in our Irving, Texas office and Keith Thornley out in North Carolina.  We're starting to see this somewhat frequently so hopefully this will help you avoid a potential headache: ======== Issue:...

Here's another interesting one for you.  What I wanted was a way to track what scripts are executed by the Operations Manager Agent on a box as this would help in fine tuning some of the rules/monitors which were configured to run very frequently...

Here's a quick tip on why some of the data in reports based on SystemConsoleUsage may be missing in SMS 2003: ======== Issue: Reports based on the SystemConsoleUsage class do not show all data, although the data is actually being collected. Cause: Data...

Here's another neat tip from Clifton Hughes in our Irving, Texas site.  If you're PXE booting machines and they're throwing 0x80072ee7 errors along with getting APIPA addresses then you might try turning on portfast if you're using a Cisco Spanning...

For the week of 11-30 through 12-6 we had four new Knowledge Base articles. Links and titles are below: ======== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=956307 Error message when you install the Inventory Tool for Dell Update (ITDU) on an SMS 2003 site...

The MOMTeam blog just posted a great list of prerequisites that will help ensure that Reporting installs successfully.  Before you install Reporting you'll want to give this a quick read: ======== Detailed below are some validation steps that should...

Just an FYI that Microsoft User Research is conducting a study focusing on design ideas for the next version of System Center Configuration Manager from January 12 to January 23, 2009 . This is a great opportunity for Configuration Manager Users who have...

Some of you may not be aware of some of the recent internal changes here in the Manageability support group but we recently picked up responsibility for providing support for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.  VMM was probably placed here...

For the week of 11-23 through 11-29 we had five updated and two new Knowledge Base articles on everything from SMS 2.0 to Configuration Manager 2007.  Links and titles are below: ======== Sys Mgmt Svr 2.0 SP2 EN 273476 - SMS: Buffer Overrun Problem...

Here's a great tip on an issue you may run into if your using WSUS and ConfigMgr 2007 for updates and defining settings via a Group Policy.  This one comes from Anjana Kaku Tyagi, a Support Engineer in our Manageability group: ======== Issue: While...

Sorry for the delay in posting the new KB's but I took a couple days for Thanksgiving and I'm just now getting caught back up.  For the week of 11-16 through 11-22 we had twelve updated and four new Knowledge Base articles on everything from SMS...

I'm sure you all noticed a remarkable lack of activity over the past week but I'll be cranking things up again very soon. I've been out since November 20th on a much needed vacation to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and family but I'm back in the...