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TechNet Webcast: Overview of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (Level 300)
Language(s): English. Product(s): System Center. Audience(s): IT Professionals. Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: Monday, October 01, 2007 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Event Overview The next major release of Microsoft Systems Management Server, Read More...
TechNet Webcast: Security and Enterprise Features of System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 200)
Language(s): English. Product(s): System Center. Audience(s): IT Professionals. Duration: 92 Minutes Start Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 9:30 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Event Overview In this session, we provide an overview of how the new Read More...
SMS 2003 Workflows: Advanced Client - Advertisement Execution and Status Reporting
Here's another work flow for you. As the tile says, this one is on advertisement execution and status reporting. J.C. Hornbeck Read More...
Released: Windows DNS 2000, 2003 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
Overview This MP is designed to be used for monitoring DNS 2000 or DNS 2003 events, collecting DNS component-specific performance counters in one central location, and for raising alerts for operator intervention as necessary. By detecting, sending alerts, Read More...
Released: Microsoft DFS 2003 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
This actually came out sometime yesterday but I figured I'd send a heads up in case you missed it: ============= Overview The Distributed File System 2003 Management Pack monitors events placed in the Application event log by DFS and raises alerts to Read More...
SMS 2003 Workflows: Advanced Client - Locating a DP for Package Download
This is the first of what will be many flowcharts that describe various functions within Systems Management Server 2003. The biggest hurdle to troubleshooting SMS is understanding the workflows involved with various tasks so as long as you have a good Read More...
New KB Articles For 9/9 Through 9/15
Here are the new Knowledge Base articles we published last week: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941461 How to manually determine the license and sale origin channel information for a software product when the Asset Intelligence reports in SMS 2003 Read More...
Changing Domains and/or Domain Names with SMS 2003 and SCCM 2007
A question that seems to come up a lot around here is from people who already have existing SMS 2003 servers and they want to either change the domain name or move the server to a new domain. Before we can truly address that question though, we must understand Read More...
List of Reports Available in SCCM2007
I haven't seen the list of all available reports in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 out there anywhere else and we get questions about them every once in a while so I thought I would post them here. It's a long list and I may have missed one Read More...
SMS 2003 in a Multiple Forest Environment
Here's another question we get a lot so I thought I'd send out the scenario in case some of you had this question as well. ====== Question: Hey J.C., I'm an SMS administrator at a rapidly growing widget manufacturer and for the last few years we've been Read More...
Update - SMS 2003 SP3 Add/Remove Programs reports may cause a CPU Spike and/or SQL Timeout
Back in June we blogged about an issue where the SMS 2003 SP3 Add/Remove Programs reports may cause a CPU Spike and/or SQL Timeout and we mentioned that a fix was being developed. Well, the fix is now available - for details please review KB939872 . Note Read More...
New Knowledge Base Articles for 9/2 through 9/8
There's only one this week but here it is: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941409 The Discovery Wizard may stop responding during the discovery process in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 J.C. Hornbeck Read More...
SMS 2003 and Security Bulletin MS07-053
There has been some confusion with SMS 2003’s ability to detect and patch MS07-053 so hopefully I can clear some of that up. The Subsystem for Unix applications on Windows Server 2003 is a native part of the Windows operating system which can be detected Read More...
SCE2007 Install Fails With "The specified domain does not exist or cannot be contacted"
We're getting a couple calls on this issue so I thought I send it out and let you know you can receive the hotfix without having to call support. If you're experiencing the issue below then you can use our new hotfix web submission form to get it. Just Read More...
Wmiprvse.exe Process May Generate High CPU Usage
We've been getting a couple calls on this one so I thought I'd send a heads up and maybe save you some time. There's an issue where after you install SMS 2003 SP3, the Wmiprvse.exe process may generate high CPU usage on client computers during hardware Read More...
Daylight Saving Time Update - Online Chat
This isn't specific to SMS, MOM or System Center but I thought you might like to know about this anyway. Should be a nice way to find out what you need to do to be ready for the upcoming time change. ====== Please join Microsoft Experts for an Online Read More...
SCCM2007 - Upgrading From The Evaluation Version To The Retail Version
A question we get a lot these days concerns whether you can upgrade an existing Configuration Manager 2007 site running the 120 day evaluation version of the software to the retail version when it's available. In short, yes you can. We actually document Read More...
Disabling/Enabling multiple rules/monitors/discoveries at once
Boris Yanushpolsky recently blogged about a utility he wrote that allows you to disable or enable multiple rules, monitors or discoveries at once over on his MSDN blog . If you haven't seen it you might want to check it out. It's been out there a couple Read More...
New Configuration Manager Web Forums
We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Configuration Manager Forums off of the Configuration Manager TechCenter on TechNet! ConfigMgr TechCenter Community Page: ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/configmgr/bb625749.aspx ) This is the next Read More...
Update to SCCM2007 Client Bits Download Proxy Issue
Last Wednesday I commented on an issue we ran into where the System Center Configuration Manager install might fail because it is unable to download the client bits. As a workaround we advised people to turn on “Automatically detect settings” in Internet Read More...
New Knowledge Base Articles for 8/26 through 9/1
Here's a list of the new SMS, MOM and System Center Knowledge Base articles that published between August 26th and September 1st. Hope these help! http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936161 The MOM service may crash in discovery in MOM 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937470 Read More...
Software Updates Fail and "Reboot is required" Reported in Patchinstall.log
While reviewing some of the calls we've been getting I came across this issue which seems to be popping up every so often. The cause and the resolution are pretty straight forward but I thought I'd pass it along just in case you happen to run into it. Read More...
System Center Operations Manager Doesn't Show Any Reports
Here's an interesting issue I came across the other day that I thought you all would be interested in hearing about. A customer using Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM2007) called in saying that the reporting section of the console didn't show any reports. Read More...
How to troubleshoot SMS Administrator console connectivity
Last week I mentioned that many of the calls we get in customer support involve advanced client push installations and this week I want to mention another common call, that being SMS Administrator Console connectivity. As is the case with advanced client Read More...
New Knowledge Base Articles for 8/19 through 8/25
Here's a list of the new SMS, MOM and System Center Knowledge Base articles that published between August 19th and August 25th. Hope these help! http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936339 - Windows computers are not displayed in the Network Topology diagram Read More...
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