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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 now supported clients in SMS 2003 SP3

Microsoft are now offering a one-off compatibility pack that provides support for Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems as SMS 2003 SP3 clients. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974014

Published Tue, Feb 02 2010 10:19 AM by Peter Hunt

Filed under: SMS 2003, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

Waiting for August 6th 2009

Why? Because from that date onwards I will be able to download Windows 7 RTM from the Technet website. http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/21/when-will-you-get-windows-7-rtm.aspx

Published Wed, Jul 22 2009 10:35 AM by Peter Hunt

SMS 2003 SP3 ITMU scanning issue

From the Configuration Manager Support Team blog. SMS 2003 SP3 ITMU scan fails with WSUSScn2.CAB released on June 23rd http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/archive/2009/06/25/sms-2003-sp3-itmu-scan-fails-with-wsusscn2-cab-released-on-june-23rd.aspx...

Published Wed, Jul 08 2009 2:43 PM by Peter Hunt

Filed under: SMS 2003, ITMU

A couple of articles of note on the Windows Team blog

From the Windows Team Blog, an interview with Jeff Wettlaufer on SCCM 2007 SP2 http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/springboard/archive/2009/07/01/system-center-configuration-manager-2007-service-pack-2-beta.aspx and some blurb around MDT 2010 Beta 2, that...

Published Wed, Jul 08 2009 10:33 AM by Peter Hunt

Fun times ahead

It's upgrade time! Just started our project to upgrade our hierarchy from SMS 2003 SP3 running on Windows Server 2003 (32 bit) with SQL 2005 (32 bit) to SCCM 2007 SP1 R2 (though probably SP2 by implementation time) on Windows Server 2008 (64 bit)...

Published Tue, Jun 30 2009 12:02 PM by Peter Hunt

Filed under: SMS 2003, SCCM 2007, MDT, ConfigMgr

Tired of continually entering 'Run as...' credentials?

If you're like me, you'll be running your workstation under a low priviledge user account for most tasks and using an elevated priviledge account to perform your administrative duties. Well, I get fed up of continually right clicking an application...

Published Mon, Jun 29 2009 12:07 PM by Peter Hunt

Filed under: Administration, MMC

Image capture of Vista SP2 or Server 2008 SP2 fails using ConfigMgr 2007 RTM & SP1

From Microsoft Support You have a computer that is running Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) or in Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2). When you try to capture an image, the image capture process of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 RTM fails...

Published Tue, Jun 16 2009 10:22 PM by Peter Hunt

Filed under: SCCM 2007, MDT, ConfigMgr, OSD

MMS 2009 Back Stage Pass

Ever wondered what happens behind the stage and demo screens at an MMS conference to make the keynotes go swimmingly? Microsoft TechNet Edge takes you behind the scenes and shows you what I didn't see! http://edge.technet.com/Media/Behind-the-scenes...

Published Tue, May 19 2009 4:19 PM by Peter Hunt

Filed under: MMS 2009

Finding out which distribution points packages haven't been sent to

It's easy enough to write a query to show which packages have been deployed to which distribution points but what about a query to show which packages haven't been deployed to distribution points? The issue here, is that you need to cycle through...

Published Wed, May 13 2009 12:13 PM by Peter Hunt

Filed under: SMS 2003, SQL Code, SCCM 2007

Gordon's been Pwned!

For those of you who attended the last WMUG meeting, you'll remember that Gordon gave a very good presentation on SCOM 2007 R2 and in doing so a new Microsoft catch phrase was unleashed on us with great fury! Now it seems everyone at Microsoft is...

Published Fri, Apr 17 2009 10:42 AM by Peter Hunt

Filed under: Windows 7, First class citizen, Libraries

Deploying MS09-010 OS Patches with SMS 2003 ITMU

The Microsoft bulletin for MS09-010 indicates QNumbers 921606, 933399 & 960476 for 'Microsoft Office' but does not indicate a QNumber for 'Windows Operating System and Components'. You may be tempted to try (as I did) the KB Article...

Published Wed, Apr 15 2009 1:42 PM by Peter Hunt

Filed under: SMS 2003, MS09-010, ITMU, 960477, 923561

SMS 2.0 RTM - 10th Anniversary

Perhaps Outlook should've reminded me to bake a cake with 10 candles? Never-the-less, Paul Thompsen's blog brought it to my attention. Doesn't time fly? http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/pthomsen/archive/2009/02/09/129886.aspx

Published Fri, Mar 13 2009 2:12 PM by Peter Hunt

MMS 2009 here I come

Damn the exchange rate. Last week I took the plunge and booked my flight to Vegas and handed over not shy of £2k to register for MMS 2009. Despite the cost for me to attend has increased from last year (the Pound buys 30% fewer* Dollars), I still...

Published Fri, Feb 06 2009 11:01 AM by Peter Hunt

Filed under: MMS 2009

Who's sending SMS bad inventory files?

Reading Cliff's post here reminded me of a little piece of automation that I cooked up. Some while back, I was at a SMS 2003 site where files were accumulating in the hardware inventory orphans and bad MIF folders and the software inventory orphans...

Published Thu, Dec 04 2008 9:47 AM by Peter Hunt

Filed under: SMS 2003, Bad Hinv, Inventory, Bad Sinv

Alert! BST to Coordinated Universal Time (GMT) change

SMS 2003 Admins, it's that time again! If you have scheduled advertisements that run programs that could impact on your environment (e.g. programs that reboot machines), then this weekend's BST to GMT time change may be of significance to you...

Published Sat, Oct 25 2008 1:23 AM by Peter Hunt

Filed under: GMT, SMS 2003, BST