Where did all the posts go?
on Dec 18, 2008Many of us are beginning to pack things up and head out for the holidays so I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I'm doing the same.  I'm going to be out until January 5th so if the posts start to dry up then that's proba

ConfigMgr 2007: How to inventory mapped drives
on Dec 18, 2008 in ConfigMgr Guide Inventory SMS I was asked a few days ago if ConfigMgr or SMS could inventory mapped drives, and while the answer is yes we don't do it by default. In effect we report the logical disk but not mapped drives. In order to inventory mapped drives we first need to ex

Tips for installing clients to Windows SteadyState PCs
on Dec 17, 2008We've received a couple calls on this so I thought a quick post might help just in case you're using Windows SteadyState in your environment.  Anjana Kaku Tyagi wrote up the example below, and while the example is for the SMS client you

SMS: SUSFP detects that MS08-062 patches are needed even though IIS is not installed on target machine
on Dec 16, 2008Here's another issue you may want to be aware of if you're still using the old SUSFP scan engine to detect updates.  This one is from Clifton Hughes in our Las Colinas, Texas office: ======== Issue: In SMS 2003, if you are using SUSFP

ConfigMgr 2007: Dell Latitude E6400 laptop may hang during Windows XP Mini-Setup
on Dec 16, 2008 in ConfigMgr OSD Troubleshoot Here's an issue that Frank Rojas saw the other.  This particular issue involved a Dell E6400 but I thought it was worth a post because the same troubleshooting technique could be used for similar issues with other hardware as well: ========

New Knowledge Base articles for 12-7 through 12-13
on Dec 15, 2008 in ConfigMgr KB Article For the week of 12-7 through 12-13 we had one new Knowledge Base article on ConfigMgr 2007.  The link and title is below: ======== http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=955955 A task sequence that contains many packages may take longer to run..

ConfigMgr 2007: The Transfer Site Settings Wizard fails to transfer client installation methods
on Dec 11, 2008 in ConfigMgr Migrate Troubleshoot Here's one that's probably going to be relatively uncommon but I came across it the other day and thought it would be worth a mention here: ======== Issue: The Transfer Site Settings Wizard in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 fails