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Announcing the new P2V Migration Tool for Software Assurance
Our pals over on the Nexus SC blog posted some great info on migrating users to Windows 7 while keeping the users previous Windows XP (or newer) environment available to them in the new OS. It's like...
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The Configuration Manager 2007 Client Installation and Assignment SuperFlow...
The Client Installation and Assignment SuperFlow is a dynamic, interactive content model that provides you with detailed steps that you can use to prepare for and install the Configuration Manager 2007...
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Solution: After a ConfigMgr 2007 OSD Task Sequence completes, the client may...
When a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 OSD Task Sequence completes, the ConfigMgr client may not seem to pull down policy. Inspecting the ConfigMgr client on the affected PC reveals that...
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How to create a custom default user profile for a Windows Vista or newer OS...
When building a Windows Vista or newer reference image (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2), to create a custom Default User profile based on modifications done on the local...
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New Solution: A System Center Configuration Manager 2007 site fails to...
Symptoms A System Center Configuration Manager 2007 site fails to upgrade to Service Pack 2 and reports SQL Error: The server service principal name already exists. You may also see the following in...
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New Solution: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 client may fail to...
Symptoms System Center Configuration Manager 2007 clients may fail to load policy with error 80040217 in the PolicyEvaluator.log: Failed to load policies from XML. Unknown error (Error: 80040217;...
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New KB: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Management Point install...
We posted this solution a while back but it's proven to be so popular that it was converted to an official Knowledge Base article. You can find our original post here but the test of the KB is below:...
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New KB: WDS Multicast settings in the Distribution Point properties do not...
Symptoms When modifying Multicast settings in the properties of a Distribution Point, the values for "MultiCast address", "UDP port range", and "Transfer rate" can all be modified under the "Multicast"...
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Fix: The ConfigMgr 2007 database grows excessively large and DPs do not honor...
You may notice that an unusually large number of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 status messages are generated causing significant growth in database size. Further investigation also shows a...
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P2V Migration for Software Assurance Beta 2 now available, including...
Hey everyone, a few weeks ago we released a beta of the new P2V tool for OS Deployment. We are really pleased to update that information with a beta refresh, Beta 2. The P2V Migration for Software...
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Announcing the release of the Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (VMST) 3.0
This release of the Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (VMST) 3.0 completely replaces the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool version 2.1. VMST 3.0 helps customers reduce IT costs by making it easier to...
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New KB: Users may be unable to view and execute the System Center...
Symptoms Users may be unable to view and execute the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 reports hosted on SQL Reporting Services. Problem 1: Trying to access http://<SQLServerName>/reports...
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Configuring and using the Courier Sender component in ConfigMgr 2007
What is a Courier Sender? If you ask this question or if you come across this question yourself the very first thing that comes to your mind is someone who ships your packages to your desired...
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Announcing Top Solutions RSS Feeds: Automatically connecting you with solutions
The Top Solutions RSS feeds pair the latest hot customer issues with the best Microsoft solution content, all delivered right to your desktop. The feeds will help keep you ahead of the curve by...
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System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 is now available
Looks like the System Center product team just announced the release and availability of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3: Organizations of all sizes use System Center Configuration Manager...
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Query based collections in ConfigMgr 2007 may fail to refresh after being...
Consider the following System Center Configuration Manager 2007 scenario: You create a query based collection. You update and refresh that collection and it works correctly. You go to the properties...
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The Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for October 2010 is...
Coming from the System Center Configuration Manager documentation team is news that the Configuration Manager documentation library (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680651.aspx) has been...
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OSD: How to add a script to a ConfigMgr 2007 Boot Image
One of the components of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM 2007) Operating System Deployment (OSD) is boot images. Boot images in SCCM are really just WinPE images and are used during the...
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Troubleshooting Duplicate or Missing SPNs for a ConfigMgr 2007 SQL Database
This blog post addresses a common problem customers face during the installation of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 in which the following error appears: “Setup failed to install SMS...
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Error “The WebDAV server extension is either not installed or not configured...
We have seen couple of cases on this issue here in product support recently and since I didn't see the information documented on our site anywhere I thought it would be worth a mention here. Issue: The...
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