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You may find yourself in situations where you may need to locate the physical location of a certain software update and or check if that has expired. However, it can get cumbersome to determine the right binary just by searching by its KB Article number in Windows Explorer on the SCCM Server. Fret not...

A State Migration Point (SMP), is a site system that SCCM uses for the migration of a user state from one computer to another. For instance, it has the ability to migrate a user profile from XP to Windows 7 and scenarios include migrating from the same source computer to a different operating system...

Sometimes, when a distribution point has been decommissioned or renamed, the previous server's site last known component statuses are still reported in the SCCM's Site Status panel. In most cases, we see the exact duplicated site components, thus the Component Status panel is showing 2 server...

Your ConfigMgr sites start to populate with hundreds and thousands of status messages, namely 2300s and 2301s. Hold your horses and do not panic though as Microsoft has addresed this issue with the availability of a patch KB978021 of which more details and the download can be found here . This hotfix...

[Informational] We should see more and more installations of the SCCM Management Point on Windows Server 2008 in the business environment, so this information will be of great help to prevent anyone going around in circles wondering why the installing is failing. Always remember, logs are your best...

I've noticed often in my workplace where support teams constantly uninstall and reinstall Configmgr clients in the faith that it will eventually be installed properly through a stroke of sheer magic, luck or divine intervention. Unfortunately, if something is really not right, this usually will not...

Imagine the scenario where you find yourself waiting longer then usual for a package to reach a Distribution Point. You have tried a refresh, a removal and every other possible action within the Configmgr Console GUI. Yet, the package never reaches and remains in the "Install Pending" state...