February 2008 - Posts
I've had a few questions recently about managing clients that either roam off of the internal network or clients that never connect to the local network at all so I thought I would post a heads up about a TechCenter article that has some great information
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We have a couple new Knowledge Base articles that published the week of February 10. They're all on WSUS but check 'em out: ======= http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=948327 Windows Server Update Services 3.0 does not successfully process software
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Sorry if this is old news but I had to be out of the office so I didn't get a chance to post this on Friday. Anyway, SP1 for OpsMgr 2007 is now available for download! I listed a few links for you below; one to the download SP1, one for the
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We had a couple recent additions to the Management Pack catalog for System Center Operations Manager 2007 that you might be interested in. The first is for WSUS 3.0 and the second is for Data Protection Manager: ======= Windows Server Update Services
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We had a couple recent additions to the Configuration Pack catalog for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 that you might be interested in. There are a couple for SQL Server 2000, one for OpsMgr 2007 and one for SharePoint Server 2007: ======
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One of our Premier field Engineers, Ambrose Wong, wrote a fantastic Connector Quickstart Guide that Jakob Oleksy put out on his blog. If you're interested in developing your own connectors then this is the place to start. The intro is below
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Here's another webcast you'll want to keep on your radar screen if you use System Center Operations Manager 2007. This one is a week from this Friday on February 29th. This is a good overview of client monitoring using OpsMgr 2007 and by the
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We have a couple cool TechNet Webcasts coming up so I wanted to be sure you knew about them in case you wanted to attend. The first is a week from Wednesday on February 27th. This is a good overview of ConfigMgr 2007 SP1 and R2 so if they're
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Here's the latest batch of Manageability Knowledge Base articles. For some weird reason we only published some WSUS KB's that week so if you're not running WSUS then you may be somewhat bored: ====== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=948327 Windows
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I came across this nifty Solution Brief on Intel's site and thought you might find it interesting. In case you weren't aware, ConfigMgr 2007 SP1 will include native Intel Centrino Pro and vPro processor technology support when it releases. There's
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Over on the MOMTeam blog Cory Delamarter posted a great write-up on Microsoft IT's deployment of System Center Operations Manager 2007. He used to work in Microsoft It and has a tremendous amount of experience deploying this product. If you're
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Yesterday I posted about a couple Solution Accelerators relating to some of the manageability technologies we offer but I accidentally left out one that is pretty cool. This one is the "Microsoft Deployment" Solution Accelerator and it
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I've been getting a few questions about some of our Solution Accelerators so I thought I would post a quick list of some Manageability related SA's that you might be interested in. These and many more are listed at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/bb892167.aspx
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Hot off the presses: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=947682 The DPM protection agent service cannot start in System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Sys Center DataProtect Mgr 07 EN EN-US http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945639 The new collection
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In case you missed this last Friday: On February 8th, Microsoft made available the anticipated beta Configuration Manager, SP1 and R2 releases, for download. The SP1 release supports the upcoming releases of Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008.
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It seems like a fairly common situation we find ourselves in around here is troubleshooting Security or Office updates so I imagine that on occasion you might find yourself in the same boat. If so, the steps below are a high level overview of the
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Introduction Chances are that if you work for a company that has more than ten users, you’re familiar with Windows OS deployment technologies such as SysPrep and WinPE. Both save considerable time and effort, but if there’s one area that seems to trip
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OK, this is your last reminder so if this applies to you take note I already sent this out a couple times before so I'm sure you're getting tired of seeing it, I just don't want to hear the ole "nobody told me about this" refrain if something
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Here's our latest batch of newly published KB articles: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=947503 Description of Software Update Services and Windows Server Update Services changes in content for 2007 Microsoft Software Update Svcs EN-US http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=946434
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My buddy Anthony posted on the updated SMS 2003 Asset Intelligence catalog over on his blog so if you missed it you'll want to check that out. I pasted the intro below and a link to the complete post below: ====== This is only for SMS 2003 SP3 not
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I came across the most recent list of live Webcasts concerning Manageability with Microsoft software so I thought I'd throw these out in here as a heads up. These are always pretty cool so if you see a topic you're interested in I highly recommend
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