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...

Here's an issue I hadn't seen before that was sent to me by Clifton Hughes, one of our top System Center Configuration Manager 2007 engineers at our Las Colinas site in Irving, Texas.  If you do any work with packages that contain localized file...

Here's another tip from Milan Jajal, this time on Operations Manager 2007: ======== Issue: Custom groups used in a Distributed Application may disappeared from the Groups list in the Authoring pane. Note: Even though the custom group disappeared from...

We get a call on this every now and then so if you're not seeing what you expect to see with any of the performance reports in System Center Operations Manager 2007 then this may be what you're running into.  It's not that the data is incorrect,...

We've been kind of ConfigMgr/SMS heavy lately so I thought maybe we'd do a couple posts on MOM/OpsMgr to try to even things out a little.  Today is a troubleshooting tip for MOM 2005 from Milan Jajal: ======== Issue: After importing the Data Protection...

We had one new and four updated Knowledge Base articles for the week - one on OpsMgr 2007 and four on MOM.  Links and titles are below: ======== Sys Center Ops Mgr 2007 SP1 958170 - Description of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack...

Here's another cool tip from Frank Rojas. If you're trying to PXE boot and getting "No Boot Action for Device (x) found" errors then you'll want to check this out: ======== Issue: When attempting to PXE boot a PC using SCCM 2007 OSD, the PXE boot...

We had five updated Knowledge Base articles for the week - two on ConfigMgr, two on OpsMgr and one on SMS.  Links and titles are below: ======== Sys Center Config Manager 2007 AL 955229 - You experience issues in the original release of System Center...

After posting about our support for SQL Server 2008 I got some questions about Hyper-V support so here you go: "Support will be provided for client management, site server roles, and the administrator console running within a Hyper-V environment...

I don't think I saw anything about this but since the hotfixes have gone public I might as well give it a little pub here.  With the release of the hotfixes below, SQL Server 2008 is now supported on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 RTM ...

Ever wonder what's needed to setup and configure an RMS on a Win2K8 cluster?  If so then check out the doc that Arnab Mitra was kind enough to put together for us: ======== How to Configure/Setup RMS on a Windows 2008 Cluster. 1. On each RMS cluster...

Looks like the updated MP for Biztalk is now live in the catalog.  We're now at version 6.0.6411.0 and changes include: Addressed an issue where discovery was not fully working when host instances had multiple parent hosts. Addressed an issue where...

Have you ever wanted to use deploy operating systems to computers using a PXE service point without first adding the computer to the Configuration Manager database?  Well now with Configuration Manager 2007 R2 you can and the famous Steve Rachui...

We had seven new Knowledge Base articles for the week: Two on SMS 2003, one on MOM 2005, one on System Center ConfigMgr 2007 and three on System Center Operations Manager 2007. The links and titles are below: ======== Sys Mgmt Svr Ent Ed 2003 EN...