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I thought of blogging this information as it took a little bit of time to identify the root cause of the issue and I didn’t see it documented publicly anywhere. Hopefully if you run into the same issue this will help you find a quick solution. Symptom:
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This afternoon the WU/MU team released a revised WSUSSCN2.CAB file. This new cab file address several reported issues with last Tuesday’s release of the security bulletins MS09-034 and MS09-035. Most of these problems were limited in nature, but we recommend
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We’ve seen some issues reported over the past couple of days where the SMS 2003 SP3 ITMU scan is failing on some or all clients with code 87 (The parameter is incorrect). When this occurs, the SMSWusHandler.log contains entries similar to the following
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We had five new Knowledge Base articles for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 last week and one for SMS 2003: I won’t go into the details of each but you can check out the article titles and links below: ======== KB971225 - Windows Vista Service
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This should go out in an updated Knowledge Base article within the next couple days but I figured I’d give all of you an advanced, sneak preview anyway. Below are our updated statements regarding supported platforms for Systems Management Server 2003
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Are you using Systems Management Server 2003 to roll out Windows XP Service Pack 3 to your clients? Have you noticed any that didn’t install yet also didn’t report any errors? If so and you’re using an old Intel wireless driver then this may
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Do you use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 or SMS 2003 and wonder what all the switches for PatchInstall are? If so then Steve Rachui has the information you need as he documents everything from /F to /Z and everything in between.
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In yesterdays (4/14/2009) initial WSUSScn2.cab release from the MU/WU team, there was an issue causing the update for KB923561 for the Czechoslovakian language to be incorrectly detected and offered. This issue was addressed and a revision to this update
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Last week we had one new ConfigMgr 2007 article and one new SMS 2003 based KB. The links and titles are below: ======== KB961726 - Available command line switches for PatchInstall.exe Sys Mgmt Svr Ent Ed 2003 EN EN-US KB956944 - Error message
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Yesterday I mentioned that SQL Server 2005 SP3 is now supported for SMS 2003 and ConfigMgr 2007 but as an interesting side note did you know that if you move to SP3 of SQL 2005 you're still not at the latest patch level? There's actually a Cumulative
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Just a quick FYI that the Configuration Manager team recently completed testing and SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 is now officially supported as a site database for the following products: Systems Manager Server 2003 Service Pack 3 System Center Configuration
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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
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Today's tip comes from a Ryan Anderson , a Senior Support Escalation Engineer in our Texas office. If you're getting 2407's after an upgrade to System Center Configuration Manager 2007 then Ryan may have your solution: ======== Issue: After upgrading
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Here's a heads up on a particularly odd issue we've begun to see with SMS. If you're wondering why your recurring advertisements haven't run since the Daylight Savings Time updates then this is probably why. Special thanks to our own Buz Brodin for his
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Today's ConfigMgr 2007 tip comes from Buz Brodin, a top gun Senior Support Escalation Engineer who works out of our North Carolina office. If you're running into issues deploying updates to SMS 2003 clients and the "Deployable to SMS 2003" property for
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