In case you missed them, the following posts were published on the System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog for the time period February 21 st – February 27 th , 2009: Requesting an AMT Provisioning Certificate with Windows Server 2008 CA ...

In case you missed them, the following posts were published on the System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog for the time period February 14 th – February 20 th , 2009: Screencast: System Center Updates Publisher (SCUP) Installation Using...

In case you missed them, the following posts were published on the System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog for the time period February 7 th – February 13 th , 2009: How to Specify the Container Name on the Web Enrollment Page for Certificate...

In case you missed them, the following posts were published on the System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog for the time period January 30 th – February 6 th , 2009: Your Writing Teams Win Content Awards! Need the Latest Configuration Manager...

In case you missed them, the following posts were published on the System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog for the time period January 21 st – January 29 th , 2009: TechEd 2009: Configuration Manager 2007 Pre-Conference Seminar MMS...

Posts on the new System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog - The official blog of the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Product Group: Announcing the System Center Configuration Manager Product Team Blog Site Interview with...

With the holidays behind us and now that we are nicely settled into 2009, it’s a great time to announce some exciting news. This blog and similar blogs from Microsoft have proved so popular with customers, that we’re starting up an official product group...

The Configuration Manager writing team have just published a major update to the Configuration Manager quizzes. These quizzes are a great way to learn more about some of the features of the product. Each quiz contains 10 questions that can be answered...

The out of band management prerequisites for Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 listed DHCP as an external dependency for out of band (bare metal) provisioning only. It has since come to our attention through the TechNet forums that in-band might also have...

No, there’s no new release of the software this time. But that didn’t stop us from continuing to make revisions and additions to the Configuration Manager documentation library. The library is now updated on the Web: TechNet Configuration Manager documentation...

We had a lot of customers ask what happens when a branch distribution point that’s running on a workstation-class computer exceeds the maximum number of 10 concurrent sessions. The 10 concurrent sessions is a limitation of the operating system, and not...

It’s recently come to our attention that if you are using certificate selection criteria with certificate attributes that include spaces, the spaces can be stripped out and so certificate selection for a valid certificate will fail. Certificate selection...

Creating custom reports in Configuration Manager can be a challenge, not only to create the SQL statement for the report, but to figure out what SQL view contains the information you need and how the SQL views can be joined together. T he Windows Installer...

In response to customers on the forums, we've been looking into ISA configuration for the Internet-based software update point. The following steps detail how Adam got this working on ISA 2006, and we will request that the ISA documentation How to Configure...

Update October 31st 2008 : Happy Birthday to Rob Marshall, and hope you guys at the WMUG (UK) event in Reading have a great time!

As a result of investigating How to Configure the WSUS Web Site to Use SSL , we’ve uncovered a slight anomaly with the certificate requirements for an active Internet-based software update point. When the other Internet-based site systems (Internet-based...

We’ve recently been looking at adding new quizzes to incorporate the new features in Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 and R2, so watch out for these to join the existing Configuration Manager quizzes at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID...

Although our documentation is XML-based, we use Microsoft Word as our editor, and Word likes “smart quotes” – which has resulted in a problem for the Copy Code section in our new step-by-step topic for Windows Server 2008 CA . Smart quotation marks are...

It’s recently come to our notice from the forums that we need to clarify the WSUSUtil.exe configuressl command that’s run when configuring the WSUS Web site to use SSL. Although this topic was updated for the August 2008 documentation update to include...

The Release 2 add-on for Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 is released today. Keep an eye on it being announced on the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Web site with details of how to download it. R2 is available free of charge to customers...

As many of you know, the current network diagrams for the Internet-based client management scenarios do not include port information required to install the site systems or install packages. Thank you to everybody who contacted us about this and your...

I’ve been asked to recommend an alternative method of assigning the Internet-based management point to clients because my post Cannot Select Option for Branch Distribution Point in a Native Mode Site demonstrated that using the CCMHOSTNAME command-line...

My last post explained that I was updating the documentation for the unsupported scenario of combining Internet-based client management and branch distribution points. I don’t usually write on software distribution, but while I had cracked open...

I’ve been seeing quite a few customer questions about not being able to select the branch distribution point option for a Configuration Manager site system – the option is disabled in the distribution point properties, but without any explanation. Most...

Before beginning the upgrade process to Configuration Manager 2007 SP1, the Windows AIK 1.0 should be uninstalled from the SMS Provider computer for the site to allow SP1 Setup to install Windows AIK 1.1 to support SP1 OSD WIM images. If the Windows...