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Microsoft Security Advisory 958963: MS08-067
30 October 2008 10:05

A lot of SMS Admins I speak too are telling me they are flat out getting MS08-067 rolled in to their environments. Great work guys, most are very responsive and understand the importance of getting it bedded in. Rolling this puppy out is definately a good idea, especially considering that the exploit code has now gone public. We'll be seeing all kinds of... Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, MS08-067, Patch

ConfigMgr: SUP\WSUS communications failure
14 October 2008 13:16

Came across an SMS Admin today with an interesting problem. He has WSUS\SUP + all the other gubbings all on the one box, nothing really out of the norm and yet he gets Status Message ID 6701 followed by 6703 exactly 5 minutes later (the timeout value) in his WSYNCMGR log when attempting to get WSUS to SYNC with Microsoft Updates. Really he should be seeing 6701... Read More...

by Rob | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, WSUS, Sync, SUP, FQDN

Sequencing the ConfigMgr MMC Console
10 September 2008 10:32

I found this on a TechNet thread, thought might be handy for those of us that may want to sequence the ConfigMgr Console for deployment using App-V Sequencing Config Manager Admin Console (MMC) Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, App-V, Console

ConfigMgr : Using Task Sequences to deploy more than Operating Systems
08 September 2008 15:14

I thought i'd write up a quicky blog post on using the ConfigMgr Task Sequence to deploy Software Packages, and reveal select parts of the functionality available to you to accomplish the task. Open up your ConfigMgr console, navigate to the Operating System Deployment node and right click "Task Sequences" 1. Select “Create a new custom task... Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: System Center, ConfigMgr 2007, Task Sequence

ConfigMgr 2007 Console
05 September 2008 13:31

I thought I’d check out the ConfigMgr 2007 Console MMC; see how it goes on, where its settings reside and whether I can bring anything new to the current knowledge base. Unfortunately, I don’t bring anything new to the table; instead I’m just consolidating knowledge in to one place. There seems to be two locations for the console, the registry... Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: System Center, System Center. Configuration Manager 2007, ConfigMgr 2007, ConfigMgr Console

ConfigMgr 2007 RTM\SP1 - Component Status Summarizer acting like a dead duck?
28 August 2008 11:06

This issue won't impact many of you, and to induce the following behaviour you really need to go toggle some values most SMS Admins leave well alone. Hence why this one hasn't been spotted in the wild (there is a technet forum thread on this ...). Have you noticed in your environment that your Component Status Summarization data is not being replicated... Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: System Center, SCCM2007, System Center. Configuration Manager 2007, ConfigMgr 2007, ConfigMgr 2007 SP1, ConfigMgr RTM

Configuration Manager - List of log files
26 August 2008 16:05

... More a reference for me really, List of Log Files in Configuration Manager 2007 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb892800.aspx Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: System Center, SCCM2007, System Center. Configuration Manager 2007, ConfigMgr 2007, Log Files

ConfigMgr SP1 installation causes BSOD
22 August 2008 11:27

Had an interesting problem yesterday, ConfigMgr RTM upgrade to SP1 two thirds of the way through induced a BSOD. Hard to troubleshoot, system reboots and all you're left with is a minidump (depending on your OS configuration for debugging) and a partially completed ConfigMgrSetup log file. ConfigMgrSetup log file indicates that the failure point took place... Read More...

by Rob | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: System Center, SCCM2007, System Center. Configuration Manager 2007, ConfigMgr 2007, ConfigMgr Upgrade, ConfigMgr 2007 SP1

ConfigMgr client install failure - Errors 1708 & 1603 in
22 August 2008 11:13

Seen an interesting issue where the CCMSETUP parameters incorrectly specify MP as SMSMP, resulting in failure and exotic errors appearing in the CLIENT.MSI and CCMSETUP logs: Just need to fire up CLIENT.MSI in SMSTRACE, find Return value 3 and you'll possibly see the following: WARNING: The path passed for the TRK file is empty. SMSMP cannot be specified... Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: SMS, System Center, SCCM2007, System Center. Configuration Manager 2007, ConfigMgr 2007, CCMSETUP

ConfigMgr 2007 and Windows Server 2008
12 August 2008 11:08

I've recently spent a fair bit of time working on ConfigMgr R2 residing upon Windows Server 2008. There are a few issues in there that you'll need to become aware of, but it's not that difficult to get underway. I was going to write up a good article on this one, but it seems I was literally only a few days ahead of some of the other posters out there... Read More...

by Rob | with no comments

Filed under: 2008, ConfigMgr 2007, Certificates, Server