This week Microsoft rolled out a BIG hotfix (90 hotfixes) rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 . To better understand all the goodness it gives you check out the AskPFEPlat blog or go to the source of one of the guys who helped put...

One of the hardest things to tackle in SCCM these days is client health. It is an on-going issue because it is hard to diagnose and hard to programmatically fix. SCCM’s client is much improved over older versions but it still has occasional issues and...

This is one of those little known tricks of SMS/SCCM, but it can be handy. I often run into customers who have SMS 2003 and their collection management is out of control for various reasons. When going to SCCM they want to clean up their collections....

One of the things I often get asked to do is to look over ConfigMgr 2007 installs and provide feedback on any issues I see. One of the things I look at is the folders in \Microsoft Configuration Manager\Inboxes. These folders contain all the activity...

I was working with a customer once and we were looking for a good way to separate laptops from desktops within Configuration Manager when we hit upon this little known “memory” trick that I wanted to share. Often times people use the Win32_SystemEnclosure...