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From our very own Steve Rachui comes another great System Center tip. This one covers how to get a Configuration Manager 2007 Task Sequence to rerun: There are well known methods to force an advertisement to rerun – including several add-on tools
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Recently I ran into a situation where I needed to customize the OS capture media in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 as the standard capture media created by ConfigMgr does not have any way to be modified or customized. The reason for customizing
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Here’s a tip on an issue you may run into if you’re trying to run a script at the end of an OSD with System Center Configuration Manager 2007. If you’re pushing images of 64-bit Windows Server 2008 systems, and in the build task sequence you’re trying
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If you’re using the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Operating System Deployment feature to deploy operating system images in secondary sites, here’s some information you may find interesting: Issue: During the deployment of a System Center Configuration
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We had one new Knowledge Base article published last week. This one is about a hotfix for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 that fixes an issue where not all advertised task sequences are processed because of a synchronization issue in
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I'm sure you all noticed a remarkable lack of activity over the past week but I'll be cranking things up again very soon. I've been out since November 20th on a much needed vacation to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and family but I'm back
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Here's an interesting OSD related issue I got from Vinay Pamnani, a Support Engineer in our Manageability group. If all your Vista or Win2K8 deployments mysteriously end up on the D drive then maybe this is your issue: ======== Issue: When deploying
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Here's another cool OSD tip from Frank Rojas . If your clients are joining the domain like you expect then maybe this is what you're running into: ======== Issue: A client does not join the domain if the Computers container is specified as the Domain
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Here's another awesome troubleshooting tip sent to me by Clifton Hughes in our Las Colinas office. If you're deploying Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista and your Task Sequence bombs out with a 80004005 error you'll want to take a look at this: ========
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Yesterday I posted a step-by-step on how to enable Multicast for your OS Deployments (OSD) so I thought I'd also take a sec to point out the log files used to troubleshoot the same. These log files, as well as the standard logs for troubleshooting
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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
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