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Hibernation Hotfix for Windows XP and Vista and Insomnia Madness

April 08, 2008

I have read of reports where systems will not resume from hibernation but have not seen it replicated myself. Well if you have seen this problem in your environment this patch , released on April 7th by Microsoft (KB 951126), may be just what the doctor ordered. Insomnia? Ambien... I have also heard reports of a software vendor that claims to have a patch for a situation they refer to as insomnia. They claim that a bug in the Windows operating system will actually prevent the system from going into...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , ,

How-To: Sequencing Office 2007 with SoftGrid

March 04, 2008

I wish Microsoft would standardize on either SoftGrid or Microsoft Application Virtualization. Here is a KB on sequencing Office 2007. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;939796 INTRODUCTION This article describes one method that you can use to successfully sequence a 2007 Microsoft Office program for use with Microsoft SoftGrid. The method that is described in this article is not the only method that is available. Additionally, you may have to modify the information in this article...  ... Read the full post or  the 4 comments. Filed under: , , , , , ,

SoftGrid 4.1 SP1 Hotfix Rollup & 4.2 Hotfix Rollup Details and Download Links

January 02, 2008

First up, SoftGrid 4.1 SP1's hotfix rollup details. KB 938497 SoftGrid 4.1 SP1 Hotfix Rollup Package 1 This cumulative update for SoftGrid v4.1 SP1 provides the latest updates to SoftGrid v4.1 SP1. In addition to stability improvements, this update contains the following changes: • Improvements to package upgrade when importing upgraded sequencings into the SoftGrid Server Management Console Snap-in. • Improvements to package downgrade operation. • Improvements to nonpaged pool usage when sequencing...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , ,

ConfigMgr's SMS_OFFER_STATUS_SUMMARIZER Fails To Start - KB 945898

December 08, 2007

There is a hotfix available for an issue where in ConfigMgr the status summarizer stops working and a backlog SVF files begin to pile up in the OfferSum inbox. This was first reported publicly on December 3rd on the myITforum.com SMS mailing list by Lane K. Shortly after it was reported Brian Huneycutt, an Escalation Engineer at Microsoft, launched an investigation into this issue. After it was confirmed a KB was created and sent through the release process. Update: (Dec 9 9:00 GMT) hotfix now publicly...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: ,

ConfigMgr Help Files Updated

November 27, 2007

Yes it is true the ConfigMgr Doc team has released a new update to the offline help included in ConfigMgr! And there is a ton of updates to the help file (see below) included in the 7.5 MB download . I think this is an excellent idea so that you can search and get information when you are testing or if you ConfigMgr server does not have a connection to the Internet. Ping Topic last updated—November 2007 The following table describes what's new in the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , ,

Why Patch Tuesday Turns Into Patch Thursday or Friday or Monday

October 09, 2007

I used to hate the second Tuesday of every month. I honestly liked it better when patches were released as they were ready. What happens with the scheduled updates is that everyone knows that it is coming and that means that everyone expects their SMS Engineers to have the patches deployed that night, no matter how late, no matter how many people, no matter what! And on Wednesday morning, usually around nine, everyone wants to know the status of the deployments. For me I had some advantages, one...  ... Read the full post or  the 3 comments. Filed under: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,