The Infrastructure Planning and Design team has been working on a new guide - Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 with R2 . This guide targets key information to bring your infrastructure up to date, thereby enhancing user experience...

We had three new Knowledge Base articles for the week: One on System Center ConfigMgr 2007 and two on System Center Operations Manager 2007. The links and titles are below: ======== Sys Center Operation Mgr 2007 EN 956423 - The connection settings...

NOTE: For the latest version of this article see the following: http://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/archive/2011/01/05/troubleshooting-the-pxe-service-point-and-wds-in-configuration-manager-2007.aspx ===== Having PXE or WDS issues and...

We had four new Knowledge Base articles for the week: One on Mobile Device Manager 2008, two on System Center ConfigMgr 2007 and one on System Center Operations Manager 2007.  The links and titles are below: ======== Sys Center Operation Mgr 2007...

There may be times when you want to monitor an agent computer that resides in a domain which is not trusted by the domain where the RMS or MS server resides.  You may also not want to use the Gateway Server option because you only have one or two...

Here's a cool tip from Michael Sadoff, a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in North Carolina.  If you're seeing Health Service Modules throw 10801 events then this may be your issue: ======== Issue: When you upgrade a custom management pack in System...

Mark your calendars now because there's a new webcast coming up next month that you won't want to miss.  The title is "How Microsoft IT Developed a Business Case for System Center Configuration Manager 2007".  Details and a registration...

The day may come when you find that you need to move the package share (SMSPKGC$) to a different drive - say from the C: drive to the D: drive, and you don't want to have to recreate any existing packages or advertisements.  Should that day come...

Here's another issue that a couple folks seem to be running into every now and then.  Thanks go to Clifton Hughes, a Senior Support Engineer in our Las Colinas office for writing this one up. ======== Issue: In the Configuration Manager admin console...

Note: The information below does not apply to Windows Server 2008. Do not run these steps on a Windows Server 2008-based computer. Here's an issue we're starting to see every now and then. This one comes from Ryan Anderson, one of our top Senior Support...

We are pleased to announce the availability of the Service Level Dashboard Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 v1.1 (new graphical SLA display). Available for download on TechNet . This is an updated version that includes additional summary reports...

Here's a great tip on troubleshooting agent installation problems where you're getting Event ID 10005's.  This is a cool one because the basic process can be used any time you're troubleshooting an issue that references a file already being in use...

We had twelve new  Knowledge Base articles for the week: Two on SMS 2003, six on System Center ConfigMgr 2007 and four on System Center Operations Manager 2007.  The links and titles are below: ======== Sys Mgmt Svr Ent Ed 2003 EN 954347 - You...

Earlier today I posted that R2 is now available but I inadvertently left out one minor detail - The posted download is the eval version only.  It clearly states this on the site but I probably should have made that more clear in my post.  Sorry...

Today's troubleshooting tip comes from Clifton Hughes, a real life Senior Support Engineer from our Las Colinas office.  If you're having trouble getting the ConfigMgr 2007 admin console installed and running then you'll want to take a look at this...

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN UPDATED ----- The Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 Eval released on Friday so if you haven't downloaded it yet there's a brief description and a link below: ======== Brief Description Configuration...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

Back by popular demand are the weekly new Knowledge Base article lists and instead of just listing the new articles I'm listing any that have been updated as well.  Enjoy! ======== SMS 2003 with Service Pack 3 cannot deploy a package to client computers...

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 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:...

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...