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Monday, October 06, 2008 7:30 PM

Revision: Native Mode Certificate Requirements for Internet-based Software Update Point

As a result of investigating How to Configure the WSUS Web Site to Use SSL , we’ve uncovered a slight anomaly with the certificate requirements for an active Internet-based software update point. When the other Internet-based site systems (Internet-based
Posted by WEMD UA - SMS Writing Team | 0 Comments
Friday, October 03, 2008 12:25 AM

Overflow: Additional Quiz Questions for Out of Band Management (AMT)

We’ve recently been looking at adding new quizzes to incorporate the new features in Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 and R2, so watch out for these to join the existing Configuration Manager quizzes at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b9fb478a-ec98-47f2-b31e-57443a8ae88f&DisplayLang=en
Posted by WEMD UA - SMS Writing Team | 1 Comments
Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:16 AM

When Smart Quotes Aren’t Smart – CertReq Error with the New Step-by-Step for Windows Server 2008 CA

Although our documentation is XML-based, we use Microsoft Word as our editor, and Word likes “smart quotes” – which has resulted in a problem for the Copy Code section in our new step-by-step topic for Windows Server 2008 CA . Smart quotation marks are
Posted by WEMD UA - SMS Writing Team | 1 Comments
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:03 PM

Clarifying: How to Configure the WSUS Web Site to Use SSL

It’s recently come to our notice from the forums that we need to clarify the WSUSUtil.exe configuressl command that’s run when configuring the WSUS Web site to use SSL. Although this topic was updated for the August 2008 documentation update to include
Posted by WEMD UA - SMS Writing Team | 1 Comments
Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:48 PM

R2 Releases! – with Updated Documentation

The Release 2 add-on for Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 is released today. Keep an eye on it being announced on the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Web site with details of how to download it. R2 is available free of charge to customers who have
Posted by WEMD UA - SMS Writing Team | 5 Comments
Friday, August 01, 2008 4:51 PM

Installation Requirements for Internet-Based Site Systems

As many of you know, the current network diagrams for the Internet-based client management scenarios do not include port information required to install the site systems or install packages. Thank you to everybody who contacted us about this and your
Posted by WEMD UA - SMS Writing Team | 1 Comments
Friday, August 01, 2008 5:04 AM

Scripts to Assign and Delete the Clients' Internet-Based Management Point

I’ve been asked to recommend an alternative method of assigning the Internet-based management point to clients because my post Cannot Select Option for Branch Distribution Point in a Native Mode Site demonstrated that using the CCMHOSTNAME command-line
Posted by WEMD UA - SMS Writing Team | 1 Comments
Sunday, July 27, 2008 6:55 PM

FAQs for Branch Distribution Points

My last post explained that I was updating the documentation for the unsupported scenario of combining Internet-based client management and branch distribution points. I don’t usually write on software distribution, but while I had cracked open these
Posted by WEMD UA - SMS Writing Team | 2 Comments
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 5:16 AM

Cannot Select Option for Branch Distribution Point in a Native Mode Site

I’ve been seeing quite a few customer questions about not being able to select the branch distribution point option for a Configuration Manager site system – the option is disabled in the distribution point properties, but without any explanation. Most
Posted by WEMD UA - SMS Writing Team | 1 Comments
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:22 PM

Upgrading the Windows AIK for Configuration Manager 2007 SP1

Before beginning the upgrade process to Configuration Manager 2007 SP1, the Windows AIK 1.0 should be uninstalled from the SMS Provider computer for the site to allow SP1 Setup to install Windows AIK 1.1 to support SP1 OSD WIM images. If the Windows AIK
Posted by WEMD UA - SMS Writing Team | 5 Comments
Thursday, July 03, 2008 4:52 AM

Just Published on TechNet: How to Configure ISA SSL Bridging for System Center Configuration Manager Internet-Based Client Management

I’m delighted to let you know that the ISA Server documentation team has just published How to Configure ISA SSL Bridging for System Center Configuration Manager Internet-Based Client Management . This has been a joint collaboration between the ISA Server
Posted by WEMD UA - SMS Writing Team | 1 Comments
Monday, June 30, 2008 7:17 PM

Having Problems Deploying the Certificates for Native Mode with a Windows Server 2008 CA?

A number of customers have been having problems deploying the native mode certificates with Active Directory Certificate Services in Windows Server 2008, not least because the Web enrollment pages no longer allow you to request a certificate for the local
Posted by WEMD UA - SMS Writing Team | 4 Comments
Monday, June 09, 2008 4:47 PM

Smart Searching with the Vista Gadget System Center Content Search - as shown at MMS, only Better!

This Vista search gadget from the System Center SDK UA team (and special kudos here to Chris Scoville ) is really useful, as well as cool. And it’s available for you to download from the Windows Vista Gadget Gallery. Download link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=118338
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Friday, May 30, 2008 2:46 AM

Is the Documentation for Migrating a Site to Native Mode Missing a Step to Uninstall/Reinstall the Management Point?

This is a question I was asked recently on our TechNet forums, from a customer who had successfully migrated 8 sites to native mode. He found that if he uninstalled the management point, migrated the site, then reinstalled the management point – the migration
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:12 PM

SP1 Releases! – with Updated Documentation

The much-awaited Service Pack 1 has today been released for Configuration Manager 2007. Keep an eye on it being announced on the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Web site with details of how to download it. Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 comes
Posted by WEMD UA - SMS Writing Team | 1 Comments
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