March 2008 - Posts
We had two new KB articles last week, both concerning System Center Configuration Manager Internet clients. Titles and links are below: ======== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950023 Internet-based clients in System Center Configuration Manager
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We've seen this problem crop up a few times here recently so I thought a heads-up was in order. Hopefully if you use external email addresses in your notifications you haven't run into this issue but if you have this may be a solution: ======== Problem:
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We had another bumper crop of 15 new Knowledge Base article covering everything from System Center Essentials to Operations Manager to Configuration Manager. I haven't been keeping close track but this may be a new record: ====== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=947686
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Looks like MDT 2008 has finally hit the web. In case you're not sure what this is, it's basically the next version of Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007. What's new is that this release includes updates to support Windows Vista SP1 and Windows
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We had a bumper crop of 11 new Knowledge Base articles on everything from SMS 2003 to Operations Manager 2007 so there should be a little something for everybody: ====== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945306 Execution requests may remain in the WaitingDisabled
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In OpsMgr 2007, the object-oriented design used in management packs sometimes complicates monitoring. It's not easy to know which class of entity will generate a specific alert or produce data. Therefore, it's a common mistake to target the wrong class
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Over on the Configuration Manager Writers blog, Doug Eby announced the release of the Software Updates Synchronization SuperFlow. What's a SuperFlow you ask? Basically it's like a flowchart on steroids. More SuperFlows will be coming
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I know this is a little late but I was out of the office last week and I'm still getting caught up. In case you missed it, we released the Configuration Manager 2007 Software Development Kit (SDK) to the web last week. It is available for
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This was fairly well documented around the web but we're still getting calls on it so I thought I would post a quick heads-up in case you run into it. Basically the issue is that you start seeing alerts saying "Performance Module could not
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Here's another issue that seems to get a bit of traffic so I thought I'd give you all a heads up just in case you run across it: ======== Problem: In System Center Operations Manager 2007, a management server repeatedly logs events that are similar to
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I was going through some of the calls we've been getting lately and this issue seems to be quite popular. The description and resolution is below so maybe if you run into it now you can save yourself some time and a phone call. ========== When you deploy
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This Friday we'll be hosting part 1 of 2 on deploying Operating Systems with Configuration Manager 2007. Part 2 will be on the following Friday, March 21st. The overview for part 1 is below with links to both part 1 and part 2 at the bottom:
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Do you have some Windows Server 2003 clusters you're wanting to manage with System Center Operations Manager 2007? If so this is your lucky day. Late last week we released the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Cluster Management Pack for Operations
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Looks like Service Pack 1 for System Center Essentials released yesterday so if you happen to run one of these servers you'll want to check that out. Here are some of the highlights: ======== Service Pack 1 (SP1) is an update to System Center Essentials
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We have a couple new Knowledge Base articles that published the week before last so if you're running either ConfigMgr 2007 or System Center Essentials you might want to check them out: ======= http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944342 Users cannot modify
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We're starting to see a couple instances of this issue so I wanted to give you all a quick heads up in case you run into it. What happens is that you may find that your System Center Configuration Manager 2007 server returns the error "not enough server
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Here's another one that pops up again and again so I wanted to post a quick note on it. Many people fight the issue of getting client push installations to work for ConfigMgr 2007 clients in a workgroup environment only to find out hours or days
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Last week I talked about the release of OpsMgr 2007 SP1 so I wanted to take a minute and post a link to the upgrade guide. Depending on where you're coming from there may some gotchas you'll want to keep in mind, so before you head out on the upgrade
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Here's a quick heads up on a call we've been getting a lot over the past couple days. Hopefully this will save you some time and a phone call if you run into it: Problem Description: You may experience an issue where your clients report in and detect
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We get quite a few questions about enabling Wake-on-LAN (WoL) so I thought I'd post this document that was created by one of our Microsoft Consultants. It's a good overview of what WoL is and how to implement it so hopefully if this is something
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Wow, it's been a busy week for those KB writers. We have 18 new articles covering everything from MOM 2005 to System Center Essentials. There's some good stuff in here - check it out: ======= http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=947687 Event
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The Release Candidate of the Authoring Console is live for you to download! ====== Quick Details Version: 2007.RC Date Published: 2/29/2008 Language: English Download Size: 2.8 MB - 5.6 MB (Download size depends on selected download components) Overview
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