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Wonder no more! The updated SMS 2003 SP3 Supported Configurations document has been updated to reflect support for both Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 clients. The Configuration Manager 2007...
If you're running SMS 2003 SP2 (or earlier versions of SMS 2003) then inventorying SQL Server installations can be a little difficult. The information displayed in Add/Remove programs for SQL Server...
A fairly common question I seem to keep running across from SMS 2003 admins that have upgraded to Configuration Manager is: "What happened to the SMS_SiteSystemToSQLConnection group on my Configuration...
Some of you may have noticed that when you open up the Configuration Manager console, and view the default collections, that there isn't an All Windows Vista Systems collection there. There are some...
In order to upgrade an SMS 2003 SP2 or SP3 site to Configuration Manager 2007 the site database must be at the SQL Server 2005 SP2 level. If you don't want to upgrade a SQL Server 2000 instance hosting...
In order to upgrade an SMS 2003 SP2 or SP3 site to Configuration Manager 2007 the site database must be at the SQL Server 2005 SP2 level. Upgrading SQL Server can be a daunting prospect for a lot of SMS...
Here are some common questions and answers from the Asset Intelligence TechNet Forum: What's new in SCCM 2007 wrt Asset Intelligence Coming Soon: Asset Intelligence 1.5 Exchange 2007 not shown in license...
This question seems to be coming up a lot lately so I figured that I would make this post to try and help settle the issue some. While the evaluation version of Configuration Manager 2007 is fully functional...
The #pragma deleteclass command is used in SMS/Configuration Manager hardware inventory modification to delete class information from WMI repositories. There are a couple of instances where this command...
As with other tools released with SMS, you should only use tools that are either designed, or supported, for the specific product version you are installing. The Capacity Planning tool released for SMS...
Lately a lot of people seem to be having some troubles in determining the appropriate subnet mask to use in site boundaries to assign clients when using IP subnet type boundaries (SMS site boundaries and...
SMS 2003 or Configuration Manager Workgroup clients must be able to locate a server locator point for site assignment and their default management point in order to be managed. Because workgroup clients...
A question came up during the MMS 2007 "Ask the Experts" session about Decommissioned DDR Processing (introduced with SMS 2003 SP2). I wasn't a member of the panel, but I did speak a little...
There seems to be some confusion about how the client push installation method works to get the SMS 2003 Advanced Client installed on discovered resources at secondary sites lately. I've done some...
Well, better late than never right?! The SMS 2003 SP2 documentation has all finally made it to the web. Some of these documents were my first official projects as a Microsoft technical writer so I'm...