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ConfigMgr : Query builder Values box cannot display large item list
This is still an old one , but I can imagine some admins are still freaking out when seeing this . In Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 , when trying to build a query that contains...
Configmgr Query : Not Installed Software & Subselect Query’s
Scenario : You need to make a query where following items need to be taking into consideration : Dot.net Framework 3.5SP1 is not installed or visible in add/remove programs The machine needs to be a windows...
Configmgr2007 : Change your packages source path after SCCM site migration with a script
A few days ago , I explained in this blogpost “ http://scug.be/blogs/sccm/archive/2010/08/10/configmgr-connecting-primary-child-sites-to-central-primary-parent-site-in-and-out-of-same-domain.aspx “ on...
Configmgr : Connecting Primary Child Sites To Central Primary parent site in and out of same domain
Today I was at a customer doing a migration from a Configmgr 2007 with site code APL to a new Configmgr 2007 site with site code ICT. I couldn’t get my new Configmgr site with Site code ICT attached to...
Configuration Manager 2007 R3 RC Update now available
Hi SCCM guys & Girls, I just wanted to let you know that the Release Candidate for ConfigMgr 2007 R3 was been signed off.  The update is now available through the Connect Beta Program on https...
Managing Internet based Configuration Manager clients using Direct Access
Steve Rachui published another great post over on his blog, this time about using the Windows Server 2008 R2 Direct Access feature to manage Internet based clients of System Center Configuration Manager...
ConfigMgr SRS Web Reporting : Issue with report: "Computers that have run a specific metered software program"
Issue : When running the report "Computers that have run a specific metered software program" thru the SRS reporting web page & If you want to select the month in the report , you will see...
ConfigMgr 2007 R2 & R3 : How to back up SCCM 2007 SQL Reporting Services
A recent implementation at my ConfigMgr 2007 R3 TAP customer of R3 and SQL reporting services  put me thinking ahead for our disaster recovery procedure . SRS Reporting role needs to be installed...
ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 State Message : MP has discarded a report when processing Ddr.
Today , I was at a customer and I was struggling with a specific status message ID 5413 in the status messages. I just installed a brand new Configmgr site with sitecode ABC … What is happening ? What...
SCCM R3 : Power Management In Practice (how-to) Part 1
Hi there , I have recently deployed Configuration Manager 2007 R3 beta (refresh) in production at my TAP customer.In my previous blog post I highlight the R3 the beta installation on your SCCM 2007 SP2...
SCCM 2007 R3 Beta (refresh) Installation (Howto)
I have recently deployed Configuration Manager 2007 R3 beta (refresh) in production at my TAP customer. Below I will outline the steps for deploying Configuration Manager 2007 R3 beta. Disclaimer: You...
The Citrix Connector for System Center Configuration Manager
As they demonstrated a few weeks ago at #MMS2010, the System Center team is working in partnership with Citrix to integrate the management of XenApp with Configuration Manager. The connector enhances Configuration...
Step by Step guide for provisioning Intel VPro clients in SCCM 2007 SP2 Part 3
In my previous post I have talked about  the 3rd Party Remote Configuration Certificate that is needed on each OOB Service Point to Provision Intel vPro technology based systems in SCCM at http:/...
ConfigMgr 2007 Toolkit version 2 is now available
I’m proud to announce that our SCCM Product team has released System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Toolkit V2 live on the Microsoft Download Center today.  This release is a follow up to our original...
SCCM : Software Updates are hanging.
Issue : A XP client keeps failing on 2 updates that are marked as missing , but no errors could be found in the SCCM client logs , neither in the Windows Update Agent.log. You only get this line in the...
SCCM : State of the union @ MMS-2010
Let me start by saying that it has been a great State of the union , and for those of you that didn't make it this year, that they are working in the Systems Center Configuration Manager Space. Make...
SCCM OSD Deployment : The IIS Admin service is not starting anymore on a deployed sysprepped Windows Embedded 2009 with IIS 6.0 installed
Lately I have been busy with testing & deploying for a big project some Windows Embedded 2009 devices , called the Advantech ARK –1388 .One requirement from the customer was to have IIS 6.0 installed...
Application Virtualization Dashboard – Now in Beta Release!
The Application Virtualization (App-V) Dashboard helps customers monitor virtualized software applications with a graphical display that makes it easy to stay on top of application usage, health, and compliance...
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...
Windows Embedded Standard 2009 support statement for SCCM 2007 updated
Hi All,   If any of you happen to be playing around with WES 2009 and System Center Configuration Manager 2007, you might want to have a look at the new blogpost at the ConfigMgr’s product team blog...
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...
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...
Recovering your Applications with ConfigMgr in a refresh or side-by-side migration
Hi All,   In this post I will introduce a couple of ways of getting your Applications redeployed in a side-by-side or refresh scenario. After all, USMT makes migrating your data and settings a breeze...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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