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ConfigMgr Client Hotfixes
Up until recently, there were only a couple of client side hotfixes for ConfigMgr and those were insignificant or only applicable in isolated cases. With...
KB977384 Supersedes KB977203
I “discovered” this last night in my lab and had it confirmed to me this morning by the product group: The hotfix described in KB977203 ( User state migration...
Inventorying Windows Server Core in ConfigMgr
Server Core is an interesting “edition” of Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 that offers some potentially nice benefits: http://technet.microsoft.com/en...
Software Updates Management and Group Policy for ConfigMgr cont.
This post is a continuation of my previous post: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jsandys/archive/2010/05/09/software-update-management-and-group-policy...
Software Update Management and Group Policy for ConfigMgr (what else?)
There is definitely a lot of confusion about how Group Policies interact with, control, and affect Software Update Management (SUM) on ConfigMgr clients...
Two Follow ups
From my presentation this morning at MMS I had two follow up questions that I promised to post links for. Well, here they are. The first link is for a...
Duplicate Drivers Helper Script
Importing duplicate drivers into Configuration Manager has adequately been covered by Johan and William Bracken . The process that both outline in their...
CTSMUG Presentation
Here is my slide deck from a ConfigMgr OSD 101 and Best Practices presentation I recently gave at the Central Texas Systems Management User Group (CTSMUG...
USMT 4.0 in ConfigMgr Quick FAQ
Q. What’s new in USMT 4? A. Easier to reference a link on this one: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560752(WS.10).aspx . Here’s a quick list...
Microsoft.SMS.TSEnvironment
So COM is a huge topic that I can't even imagine scratching the surface of in a single post; MSDN and CodeProject are two great places to learn about...
Distribution Points on Server 2008 and 2008 R2
By now, most folks know that there are some major changes between IIS 6 (included with Windows Server 2003) and IIS 7 (included in Windows Server 2008...
Client Registration
In my previous post ( Client = No ) I mentioned that the ConfigMgr Team had recently posted a good article on client registration but I couldn’t find it...
Client = No
At my current customer we are performing a clean, side-by-side upgrade from their current SMS 2003 infrastructure. We are using client push to install...
Inventorying HBA World Wide Names
How to extend hardware inventory in Configuration Manager to add World Wide Names (WWN) from your HBAs: http://ross-family.org/blog/2010/01/06/extend-system...
Nasty Bug in OSD App Tree 2.5
It has been brought to my attention that a nasty bug slipped by my rigorous QA process that pretty mush kills OSD App Tree 2.5. I will be sorting this...
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