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BDD 2008 Beta 3 Available On Connect

The ConfigMgr compatible version of BDD (Beta 3), which I will call BDD 2008 for now, is available through open beta on the Connect site. The RTM version is expected to be out in November of this year. In this version there is the previously discussed multicasting , USMT, WAIK, and ACT 5.0. On Friday...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 09-17-2007
Filed under: Beta, News, Microsoft, SCCM 2007, Blog, OSD, Webcast, WAIK, BDD, SMSNomad Branch, OSD Plus Pack, ConfigMgr, Server 2008
Multicasting in Server 2008

Kevin is right, this has already been talked about , but he does a nice job of explaining the two types of multicasting. Two drawbacks to this however...First you cannot multicast across subnets, well you can but if your network supports this you are wide open to a SQL Slammer type of attack where one...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 09-03-2007
Filed under: Active Directory, Group Policy, Packaging, Patching, Beta, Longhorn, News, Microsoft, SCCM 2007, OSD, SMSNomad Branch, OSD Plus Pack, ConfigMgr, Server 2008
Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 Delayed

What is the status? Windows Server 2008, formerly Longhorn, will be delayed until Q1 of 2008 but will be available to SA and MSDN subscribers prior to RTM. SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 are scheduled to be released with Server 2008 so I can only assume they will be delayed as well. Vista SP1...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 08-30-2007
Filed under: Active Directory, System Center, Beta, Vista, Longhorn, News, Microsoft, SCCM 2007, NAP, ConfigMgr, Server 2008
ConfigMgr SDK BETA 2 Available For Download

You can download the BETA 2 version of ConfigMgr's SDK from the Connect site. Details of SDK are copied and pasted below. I got to sit down with several of the Tech Writers for ConfigMgr today at lunch and there was some very interesting conversations. The most important of which was probably that...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 07-31-2007
Filed under: SMS Tools, Scripting, Tools, Beta, SCCM 2007, VB Script
Configuration Manager 2007 RC1 Available

On Connect you can now download RC1 of ConfigMgr. Configuration Manager 2007 RC1 (Build 5831) available! Configuration Manager 2007 RC1 (Build 5831) is now available for download! Go here to download: https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/Downloads.aspx?SiteID=16 Configuration Manager 2007 RC1 (Build...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 07-16-2007
Filed under: Beta, News, SCCM 2007
SCCM RC Available For Download

Update: "Technically, this is * not * the RC1 build. It’s a build from the RC1 branch of the source, but the actual RC1 is still a few weeks away. -Michael" Maybe it really will be out in August!?! We all know how much Bill loves it when we speculate... SCCM 2007 Release Candidate (RC) available...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 05-29-2007
Filed under: Beta, News, SCCM 2007
SCCM 2007 How To - Site Configuration

In the first two articles of this series I discussed the preparation for setup and the installation process. In the third installment I go over the configuration of SCCM. To set the scenario, I am running a single site on VPC 2007, the guest OS is Windows 2003 SP1 already installed is IIS with BITS,...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 03-12-2007
Filed under: Beta, SCCM 2007, Documentation
SCCM 2007 What's New? Day 1 - Software Update Points

The Open Beta 2 of the next version of SMS went live yesterday. So what is new with SMS? For one thing Software Update Point is a new role, this is what handles the patching synchronization between your SMS servers, Microsoft, and companies that supply custom updates through Microsoft. This role is installed...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 02-23-2007
Filed under: Beta, News, SCCM 2007
New Version of SCCM 2007 Beta 2 Availabe on Connect

On Connect there appears to be a new version of SCCM 2007 it is labeled build 5578, and release date of yesterday. I haven't used SCCM in seveal months and don't recall the build number and haven't seen this confirmed anywhere yet. Main page here , and main Connect page here . As Rod points out , as...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 02-22-2007
Filed under: Beta, News, TechNet, myITforum, SCCM 2007

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