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Download details: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Product Feature Quizzes

Download details: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Product Feature Quizzes The Configuration Manager writing team has published the first in a series of quizzes for Configuration Manager 2007. Initially, the following 9 quizzes are available with more to come soon: Configuration Manager 2007...

Posted to Ron Crumbaker at myITforum.com, Inc. (Weblog) by rcrumbaker on 12-18-2007
Filed under: SMS Topics, SCCM 2007, Configuration Manager, SMS, Configmgr
Why use - Trust this user for Delegation to any server (Keberos only) when configuring ConfigMgr

In a recent post I made: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rcrumbaker/archive/2007/10/12/system-center-configuration-management-with-remote-sql-installations.aspx I said that I did an additional step: The other things I did to help was Open up AD for Users and computers and find the Domain Account that...

Posted to Ron Crumbaker at myITforum.com, Inc. (Weblog) by rcrumbaker on 10-12-2007
Filed under: SMS Topics, SCCM 2007, Configuration Manager, SMS, System Management, Microsoft, Server, Configmgr
Why Patch Tuesday Turns Into Patch Thursday or Friday or Monday

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...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 10-09-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, et. all, Security, KB Articles, Rants, Packaging, Patching, Reports, SCCM 2007, Funny, SUP, ConfigMgr, Configuration Manager, SCCM
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Podcasts

On the System Center Configuration Manager site there is currently a list of five audiocast or podcasts that you can listen to. They are all fairly short and cover a specific area of ConfigMgr. Wally kicks it off with the best practices for upgrading and setup, and also discusses a few new features and...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 10-06-2007
Filed under: Packaging, Patching, System Center, TechNet, Microsoft, SCCM 2007, OSD, SUP, BDD, ConfigMgr, Configuration Manager, SCCM, Podcast
Leveraging Existing SMS 2003 Console Extensions with Configuration Manger 2007 - Collections

Some of you have taken the time to create console extensions and share them with the community. And many more of you are leveraging the extensions that you have on a daily basis to make your job easier. In ConfigMgr, you will find the console extensions for SMS 2003 do not work. Fortunately, with a few...

Posted to Greg Ramsey (Weblog) by gramsey on 09-26-2007
Filed under: SCCM 2007, ConfigMgr, Extensions
AZSMUG Meeting Oct 2nd

I know you miss me by now, its been about six months since you saw me last at MMS, back then I worked for a different company and Vista was still brand new, ConfigMgr was just in its first public beta, and the Chargers has a head coach. Well next Tuesday is your chance to come and see me again I will...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 09-25-2007
Filed under: Microsoft, SCCM 2007, AZSMUG, ConfigMgr
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
SoftGrid SMS Connector Discontinued

The SoftGrid connector will be deprecated in the near future and replaced with Windows Installer Application Virtualization Extension or WIAV. The reasons they are moving away from the SMS Connector is due to future plans and interoperability with old and new products. What is it? Yes, you in the back...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 09-12-2007
Filed under: SMS 2003, SMS Tools, Packaging, News, SCCM 2007, SaaS, SoftGrid, Application Virtualization, ConfigMgr
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

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