I'm Rob Marshall, a consultant who specialises in the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager product. I like to share, i do so by blogging and helping out when I can in the MS SMS newsgroups and participating in the ConfigMgr MVP program.
I was awarded and joined the program in 2009. It'd be an understatement to say it has to be one of the best experiences an IT engineer can have, if they really enjoy specialising in a product.
My biggest weapon for troubleshooting is, my formidable knowledge, no, only joking, you, the community. I find if I cannot answer a question, then I can usually find the answer from using Bing\Google, pouring over the documentation, and if that doesn't work, tinkering in mine or someone elses virtual lab.
The blogs pretty much about ConfigMgr, but it is also a platform for me to express my random urges to display something I've stumbled across, and that I imagine would entertain you or what not as equally as it did me.
Found a good article over on Nathan's blog detailing how to patch with the WUA client, Windows 2008 server core.
Support came for W2008C in ConfigMgr SP1, but to patch it you'll need to setup the usual on the ConfigMgr side then run a vbcript on the W2008C server to initiate the patch install.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa387102(VS.85).aspx
Here's another ace link, from technet on supporting Windows 2008 with the ConfigMgr client
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.11.managing.aspx