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An update has been released to resolve issues where System Center Essentials updating Windows 7 SP1- based computers with locally published content may fail with error 0x80070570. Please refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2607070 for more details and download.
This hotfix is expected to be installed individually on all Win7 SP1 machines which are managed by SCE server. However, you can use Software Deployment’ feature in SCE Server to deploy these packages on all Win7 SP1 machines in a single go. Please see "How to Deploy" section below.
Command line parameters for the Package -
These are the command line parameters available for WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86 (KB2607070).
This option helps you to deploy the hotfix on Win7 SP1 machines from SCE server itself in an unattended way.
Notes –
How to Deploy
Install directly on all Win7 SP1 machines which are managed by SCE server
This is a straight forward install of any typical Microsoft hotfix. You can download the package and launch WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86 (KB2607070) on Win7 SP1 client systems in your SCE environment. Installer will prompt for a reboot if installed in an attended mode. If you use /quiet, it will not prompt for a reboot but then you would need to reboot the system in order to get the patch applied and functional.
What will happen when you use Default Deployment Procedure in SCE using ‘Software Deployment’ feature?
Kindly refer to this TechNet link for additional details on how to create and deploy software packages.
If you install using DISM mechanism as explained below in the blog, you won't encounter these issues and you can overcome them. However, patch gets deployed correctly with an explicit reboot if you follow default flow of local publishing and deploying the package from SCE console. To do that,
3. Please download KB2607070 locally onto your machine from download center.
4. In the New Software Package Wizard provide the path to WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe in the textbox under “Deploy a package from stand-alone setup file” option and click “Next”.
5. Provide package name and package description in the next page of the wizard and click Next.
6. Apply necessary settings in the Target System Types page and click next
7. In the “Install/ Uninstall Parameters” page for quiet installation provide “/quiet” switch in the “Installation Parameter(s)” and click next
8. Click Create button in the Summary page, this creates a package.
9. Select appropriate group of computers in Add and Remove Approvals wizard and click ok, by default Win7 SP1 clients will be listed under “All Windows Client” group.
With these steps, you have published the package for managed Win7 SP1 machines. Now these Win7 SP1 machines can have the published WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe (KB2607070) package available in the Windows Update window.
Admins can set a deadline and this hotfix would be pushed on the user systems even if they don’t install it explicitly. (See highlighted below)
Within few minutes of a specified deadline when package offering is complete, please reboot individual Win7 SP1 systems.
Otherwise, users on managed computers can always install the hotfix on the system before the deadline by obeying the below steps-
3. Select the update deployed on the SCE server and click OK.
4. Click Install Updates button.
5. This will install the update on the client machine by closing the Windows Update client window.
6. We need to restart the client machine for this update to get affected.
Installation using DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) -
* This is based on approach proposed by LGS on SCE TechNet Forum*
You can use an open source tool called RunIt.exe where as DISM is available in system32.
4. Click OK when extraction is complete.
5. Create an empty folder (WUA Update) on desktop.
6. Download runit.exe from web and copy it to newly created WUA Update. Move/Copy 'extracted' folder to WUA Update.
7. Open System Center Essentials.
8. Go to "Software" Click on the “New Package” under “Software Packages” section in “Tasks” pane.
9. Select the “Deploy a package from a setup file requiring additional folders” radio button in the New Software Package Wizard.
10. Provide the Folder Location by browsing to the folder WUA update. Click Ok.
11. To provide the Package setup file, click Browse beside package setup file text box.
12. Select RunIt.exe and click Open. Click Next in the wizard
13. Provide Package Name and Package Description and click Next.
14. Select appropriate target system types as mentioned below and click Next.
15. Map 3010 return code with Success With Reboot, by providing details(Code and Value) and clicking on Add.
16. Click Next.
17. Provide the installation parameters as mentioned below and click Next.
Install Parameters are - /L dism /Online /Add-Package /Packagepath:extracted /quiet /norestart.
Internally Windows update triggers following command. RunIt.exe /L dism /Online /Add-Package /Packagepath:extracted /quiet /norestart
RunIt.exe : invokes the exe file specified after parameter “/L” with the remaining parameters(/Online /Add-Package /Packagepath:extracted /quiet /norestart)
Dism: it is an exe file provided by Windows used for Servicing and management of Deployment image.
Online: Specifies that the action is effect on current windows running image Add-Package: adds the packages specified by PackagePath parameter to the Image /quiet and /norestart: these parameters will be used by the package while install happens on next reboot.
18. Click Create on summary page.
19. Package Creation would get progressed and then click Finish.
20. Add and Remove Approvals window appears. Select appropriate options in this window and click Ok.
21. Within few minutes after the deadline exceeds, you would observe a restart prompt on your machine.
As many of you probably already know, for a long time the Script Repository (a special-purpose gallery) has been an engine of great content and community engagement on TechNet. Well starting last week it was upgraded significantly and launched as the new TechNet Gallery, supporting not only just scripts but many other technical resources for Microsoft products including App-V, Exchange, and System Center.
Also of note is that in addition to English, the new gallery is available in French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Korean, Czech, Polish, and Turkish. Individuals’ contributions and engagement with the TechNet Gallery are tracked in their TechNet profiles and fully integrated with our reputation system which is also fully localized.
If IT resources like scripts, management packs, utilities, and extensions are important for your success, you’ll definitely want to bookmark this one.
TechNet Gallery
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App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/appv/ AVIcode Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/avicode ConfigMgr Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/ DPM Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/ MED-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/medv/ OOB Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/oob/ Opalis Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/opalis Orchestrator Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/ OpsMgr Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/ SCMDM Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/mdm/ SCVMM Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm Server App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/serverappv Service Manager Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager System Center Essentials Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenteressentials WSUS Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/sus/
A few weeks back I announced the System Center Blog Aggregator app for Windows Phone 7 and today I wanted to let you know that it was now available for all you Android users out there as well. I won’t go into all the details as you can read that at the link above, but here are a couple screen shots to give you an idea of what it looks like. It’s essentially the same app except for the addition of the Nexus SC blog and the blog for Microsoft Server Application Virtualization. Look for the original Windows Phone 7 app to be updated shortly.
After you load and start The System Center Blog Aggregator you see the main screen that defaults to loading the Nexus SC System Center site:
From there you simply click the list button and you’ll see the option for all of our other blogs:
From there you can select and read any blog you like. So there you have it, an app that allows you to follow our content quickly and easily right on your Android phone. If you have an Android phone you should load up The System Center Blog Aggregator and check it out. It’s free after all so what do you have to lose? You can find it here.
Enjoy!
The App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/appv/ The WSUS Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/sus/ The SCMDM Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/mdm/ The ConfigMgr Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/ The SCOM 2007 Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/ The SCVMM Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/ The MED-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/medv/ The DPM Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/ The OOB Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/oob/ The Opalis Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/opalis The Service Manager Team blog: http: http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager The AVIcode Team blog: http: http://blogs.technet.com/b/avicode The System Center Essentials Team blog: http: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenteressentials The Server App-V Team blog: http: http://blogs.technet.com/b/serverappv
I know this isn’t System Center Essentials specific but I thought you might want to know about a great training opportunity we have coming up at the end of the month for Office 365. On May 24th through 26th Microsoft Learning is hosting a free 3-day Jump Start tailored for IT Pros interested in learning more about preparing for and deploying Office 365. This is the first public training for IT Pros on Office 365. The course will be streamed live from 10:00-am-4:00pm PDT on all 3 days, and the recordings will be published later on TechNet Edge for later viewing.
We’ll deliver an overview of Office 365, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Lync Online. Top subject matter experts for each technology will be delivering the content and you can find more info in this MSL blog post.
To get all the details, including the daily schedule, instructor bios and a registration link see the following:
https://www.eventbuilder.com/microsoft/event_desc.asp?p_event=x8f7i41r
System Center Essentials 2010 (SCE 2010) is certified to work with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
Important Note – SCE2010 will not be enhanced to support configuration of Dynamic Memory and Remote FX (new features that were added in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1) on virtual machines, although SCE itself can run fine in a VM configured with dynamic memory. Therefore, if you want to use dynamic memory on a VM you must configure it directly from the Hyper-V Manager console. SCE can monitor and manage such VMs configured to use dynamic memory without problems. You simply won’t be able to make any changes in dynamic memory/Remote FX using the SCE console.