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HP ProLiant Hardware Inventory Tool for Configuration Manager 2007 (howto)
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...
App-V : Sequencing the SCCM 2007 Console ( howto )
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...
SCCM : Deploying Windows 7 on a VMware ESX environment ( howto )
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...
SCCM : Windows 7 deployments & unattended.xml
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...
Techdays 2010 Here we (The Scug team) come
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...
SCCM : How to create a collection to list Windows Embedded Devices
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...
How to find Windows Embedded devices in SCCM.
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...
SCCM : Upgrading secondary sites to SP2 via Software Distribution on Windows 2008 could generate some issues
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...
Step by Step guide for provisioning Intel VPro clients in SCCM 2007 SP2 Part 2
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...
SCCM : ESX VMWare Vsphere 4 Tools Silent Install/Upgrade in an Windows 2008 R2 OSD Task Sequence ANSWER !
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
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 RTW is available.
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...
SCCM 2007 Reporting : How to change the Maximum Rows Returned in the Values List that is default set to 1000 rows
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...
Adding WMIC right-click actions to the ConfigMgr 2007 admin console (2)
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...
Adding WMIC right-click actions to the ConfigMgr 2007 admin console (1)
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...
SMS to ConfigMgr 2007 secondary child site upgrade & Mplist issue
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...
Technet Events
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 –...
SCCM 2007 MP horror : “Cannot create the internet virtual directory CCM_Incoming. The error code is 8007005”.
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...
SCCM 2007 : WSUS issues , Configuration manager failed to configure upstream settings on Wsus Server “xxxx”
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...
SCCM 2007 : PXE BOOT with VMWARE Workstation and Trend Micro AV not working !
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 on windows 7 deployment
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 at Techdays 2009 in Antwerp
SCUG.BE interviewed the Jeff Wettlaufer ( Sr. Technical Product Manager, System Center) at Techdays 2009 in Antwerp! Have Fun, The SCUG.BE Team
SCCM v.Next details from MMS
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...
SCCM 2007 SP2 : What is New?
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...
SCUG: Getting Started with out of band management
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...
SCCM2007 OSD : Customising your Task Sequence for Building a Client OS on your VMWare Workstation 6.0 or later
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...
Upgrading an SMS 2003 SP3 with remote SQL server to SCCM 2007 SP1 is giving a lot of “failure audit” events on the remote SQL server
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...
SCCM 2007 : Finding the right mass storage drivers for IBM Blade HS20 (8843) & HS21 (8853)
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
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...
SCCM 2007 : Best Practice importing drivers (Part 4) , adding drivers to your SCCM Driver Package.
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...
SCCM OSD : Windows XP SP3 and Blue screen during installation of the Setup Windows & ConfigMgr Client step !
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...
SCCM 2007 : Best Practice importing drivers (Part 3) , Creating your search folders in SCCM.
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...
SCCM 2007 : Best Practice importing drivers (Part 2) , importing a driver into the SCCM Database.
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...
Keyboard Layout values for use in Task Sequences & Collection Variables
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"...
SCCM 2007 : Best Practice importing drivers (Part 1) , creating a driver Package.
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...
SCCM 2007 : Changing your name/description of your secondary sites
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...
SCCM 2007 : State Migration Point Bug , Does not clean up the old SMP- USMT Records in "Computer Association".
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...
Sccm presentation at Microsoft Techdays
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...
New Configuration Manager Knowledge Base articles
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...
App-V 4.5 Hotfix (KB959834) Package is released!
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...
MMC updates for configuration manager (Software updates) Warning
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...
SCCM : Deploying the App-V 4.5 client
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...
SCCM 2007 : Branch Distribution Point option is "grayed" out on the New Site Roles Wizard
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...
SCCM forums moved to new forum platform
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...
IBM Deployment Pack for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007
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...
SCCM 2007 : Solution for audio issue when building your Windows XP SP3 Reference image
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...
App-v 4.5 Solution Accelerator is now Available!
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...
Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for App-V & SCCM
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...
SCCM : The “Creating Custom Reports by Using Configuration Manager 2007 SQL Views” documentation package is now available for download!!
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...
SCCM OSD/PXE Issues in Native Mode
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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