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Yesterday , I ran into a customer who wanted me to extend there Hardware inventory with there Compaq and HP Server equipment such as ILO Serial number , physical Memory slots , etc. Instead of making...
More and more customers are demanding a swift and easy install of the SCCM console , especially when it comes to upgrade your consoles when a new service pack comes along. As my customers also have App...
Hi , Did you ever wanted to build a reference image of your physical workstations onto your VMware ESX environment ( yes , some customers have a firm grip on vmware …) so that people could play around...
How can I customize my Windows 7 deployment , such as the regional settings, Firewall , internet explorer , keyboard settings? Even if you are using SCCM & task sequences you still want to customize...
Hi All, Just received confirmation that I will have a speaker slot again, for the 4th year in a row at the Belgian Techdays. So me, and the rest of the Belgian SCUG team will be present to talk to you...
Hi , For a customer , I had the requirement for creating a collection that was filled with Windows Embedded Devices using the WMI property as selection criterion. This can be done by creating a new collection...
I am implementing at one of my customers a situation where 3000 Windows embedded devices will be installed. In this environments I want to be sure that any Windows Embedded devices connected to the network...
Scenario : Your Primary site server has been upgrade from SCCM 2007 SP1 R2 towards SCCM 2007 SP2.You want to upgrade all your secondary site server with are running on Windows Server 2008 to Service pack...
In my previous post I have talked about the summary of Prerequisites required for OOB Management in SCCM at http://scug.be/blogs/sccm/archive/2009/11/27/step-by-step-guide-for-provisioning-intel...
We struggled with this for a long time, but we finally found a way to make it work. We could deploy the tools manually with no issue, but trying to automate it was a complete nightmare. Basically, the...
Attend this SCCM Event with Wally Mead and 3 Belgian System Center MVP's More information can be found here http://scug.be/content/Events.aspx Agenda · 15u30 Registration · 16u Opening...
Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 Release to Web is available The System Center Configuration Manager team has announced that the Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 RTW has been released...
Report Viewer in Configuration Manager 2007 limits the number of rows returned to 1,000 rows when you click Values and the values list displays for a prompt. The maximum number of rows returned by the...
Hi All, In Post 1 of this topic we looked at the different WMI-command line actions you could trigger on a SCCM 2007 client. In this post we’ll use that knowledge together with the knowledge of...
Hi All, I previously blogged about customizing the sccm admin console using the right-click actions and blogged about how you can customize the console yourself using the correct guid and a fairly easy...
Hi All, During an SMS 2003 to System Center COnfiguration Manager 2007 upgrade recently I ran into the same issue described here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrsetup...
In the comming weeks Microsoft Belgium is hosting some very interesting Technet events. Full details can be found on the links below : Dutch Live Meetings : Live Meeting – Secure Web Access with TMG –...
This story happened at one of my customers , but lucky it happenend into an acceptance environment instead of production After discovering that a reboot happened in our acceptance environment around the...
DISCLAIMER : This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties ! Test it first into a TEST environment unless like me you have no other option ! The first part may not even be supported ! At a customer...
PXE booting in your VM-Environment will not work unless you disable the Trend micro common firewall driver on your physical host . This is a known issue for Trend Micro ! To do this , follow the steps...
SCUG.BE interviewed Jeremy Chapman (Senior Product Manager in the Windows client enterprise team) on windows 7 deployment: Have Fun, SCUG.BE crew
SCUG.BE interviewed the Jeff Wettlaufer ( Sr. Technical Product Manager, System Center) at Techdays 2009 in Antwerp! Have Fun, The SCUG.BE Team
Hi All, MMS 2009 is coming to an end and I finally found some time to start sharing some of the info I received earlier this week on ConfigMgr v.Next, the next version of SCCM due out somewhere in 2011...
The next service pack for SCCM 2007 will be much smaller , but still has all the important stuff. First of all there will be the support for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. There will be also an Update...
Session video of " Getting Started with out of ban management" given by Kim Oppalfens: Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 added this brand new feature called out of band service management. In my...
Hi , Did you ever wanted to build a reference image of your physical workstations onto your VMware Workstation so that people could play around ? Well , I have a lot of customers demanding for this scenario...
Issue: After the upgrade was done from SMS 2003 SP3 , we had a lot of “failure audit” events on the remote sql server (every 20 min). Warnings are logged for an account that wants to access the SQL server...
I have spend a few days an building a Windows 2003 R2 SP2 rig for deployment thru SCCM on IBM Blade center HS20 (8843) & HS21 (8853). The HS21 blade went very smooth , but it was a fight to get the...
SCUG Session Getting started with Out of band service management Date : 02/04/09 Time : 18u30 Place : Microsoft Belgium Speaker: Kim Oppalfens Abstract: Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 added this brand...
Did you ever wonder what would be the required best practice steps on how to import new drivers in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), when building a new hardware model. Well I try to explain...
I had some issues today after installing Windows XP SP3 via the SCCM Tasksequence .The task sequence aborts just after the step "Setup Windows & ConfigMgr Client" with : Faulting application...
Did you ever wonder what would be the required best practice steps on how to import new drivers in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), when building a new hardware model. Well I try to explain...
Did you ever wonder what would be the required best practice steps on how to import new drivers in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), when building a new hardware model. Well I try to explain...
I just needed to find a list with Keyboard variables to customize my Windows XP Build in SCCM. It could become handy for people needing them when building international images. ["Keyboard Layout"...
Did you ever wonder what would be the required best practice steps on how to import new drivers in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), when building a new hardware model. Well I try to explain...
Today I ran into a weird customer question.They wanted to change the description on their secondary sites. After some investigation I found a way of doing this without having to reinstall the entire secondary...
A few weeks ago I ran into some serious trouble at a customer.The state migration point at a secondary site ran full. At first site this wasn't really an issue , as we expected to go over the default...
Hi All, For the third year in a row I will be delivering a presentation at the Microsoft Techdays in Belgium. This years presentation will resolve about ConfigMgr aka SCCM 2007 R2 tasksequences, and what...
KB960065 - Updates are not deployed to some clients when you use WSUS or SUM to deploy updates in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL EN-US KB957255...
The following issues are fixed in the Hotfix package: Empty virtual directories may become inaccessible. When you try to run ArcGIS as a virtual application, ArcGIS may stop responding on some systems...
Hi all, Would you like to install Configmgr 2007 for once with a complete clean Pre-requisite checker? Do you want to eliminate all warnings? Has this dreaded MMC updates for configuration manager warning...
Today , I ran into some issues to deploy the App-V 4.5 client with SCCM 2007 SP1 R2 . If you have System Center Configuration Manager 2007 as a distribution system you can find information about How to...
When adding a new Distribution Point using the "New Site Roles" wizard; sometimes the "Branch Distribution Point" option is not available (grayed out) and the only option you have is...
The technet forums have received a new update, with a new interface. The Server 2008 and vista forums have been using the new interface for a while, and today the configmgr forums were move to the new...
The IBM Deployment Pack for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 is a deployment kit that extends Configuration Manager 2007 by providing IBM utilities, drivers, and custom tasks for creating...
When you deploy a Windows XP SP3 reference image, and you use the Task Sequence to add certain soundcard drivers you might face the problem that your soundcard drivers are installed but at the end there...
Following Microsoft announcement of App-v 4.5 RTM (known previously as "Soft Grid") from the beginning of September, Microsoft just publish the Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) for this...
Two new IPD guides has been published: Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 with R2 Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Download them from the following link . Hope it helps Kenny...
Creating custom reports in Configuration Manager can be a challenge, not only to create the SQL statement for the report, but to figure out what SQL view contains the information you need and how the SQL...
Some people are really experiencing hell with the PXE/OSD features when their site is in native mode. Below I have written a small guide on what to do and what to check to get things going in native mode...
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