How to Configure Windows Server 2008 for Site System Roles

[Topics referencing Configuration Manager 2007 R2 are pre-release documentation and
are subject to change in future releases.]

Topic last updated—March 2008

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 requires the WebDAV component to
be installed and enabled on the management points and BITS-enabled distribution points.
The WebDAV component is not included in Windows Server 2008 operating system.

Note

The information in this topic applies only to Configuration Manager 2007 SP1.

You must download, install, and configure WebDAV manually on management points and
BITS-enabled distribution points running Windows Server 2008. On BITS-enabled distribution
points, you might also have to edit the requestFiltering section of the applicationHost.config
file if your packages contain extensions that are blocked.

How
to Configure Windows Server 2008 for Site System Roles

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Configuration Pack (download)

This Configuration Pack helps track configuration compliance for Configuration Manager
2007 site server roles, such as management points, distribution points, and software
update points.

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Vulnerability Assessment Configuration
Pack (download)

This Configuration Pack helps track common software misconfigurations which might
make client computers more vulnerable to attack.  This is a replacement for the
Scan Tool for Vulnerability Assessment in System Management Server 2003 R2.

System
Center with Jason Lewis : Announcing two System Center Configuration Manager 2007
Configuration Packs

Forefront Client Security Tools – Home

1. Install the ASP.NET Ajax 1.0 extensions here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ca9d90fa-e8c9-42e3-aa19-08e2c027f5d6&displaylang=en
2. Download this (AjaxControlToolkit.zip)
   and unpack it to a folder on your local computer.
3. Open Visual Studio, right click on Tools and create a new tab. Call it Ajax Controls.
   Right click the tab and pick Choose Items…
4. Browse to the directory where you unpacked the toolkit, browse to the Sample Web Site
   folder, then the bin directory. Choose the AjaxControlToolkit.dll and your list should
   be populated with the new controls.

If you want to see a sample of the controls in action, go here (http://www.asp.net/AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/Default.aspx)

Wow. Take Windows
Server 2008 Server Core + PHP + IIS7 + MySQL + WordPress, mix them together, will
they blend well and work out as a nice concoction? Matty challenged
me to this blend, and guess what, we have a powerful cocktail to offer after all!

I scuffled around to see if anyone had come up with this powerful blend. Surprisingly,
no one offered it on Server Core. There are bits and pieces everywhere, but none quite
fit the blend we needed. I then decided to take up Matty’s challenge and come
up with one.

With my buddy Matty, we decided to
take a spin for it (He challenged me to it). The whole ordeal was over in a day and
we finally got it working. Thanks to another great pal in the next cube, Chris Ismael
(Interop Expert).

Alright, here is the story on my adventure.

Dennis
Chung – Windows MVP: Server Core + IIS7 + PHP + MySQL

So for a recent research project, I decided I would look into the LinqDataSource’s
control GroupBy and OrderGroupBy attributes
to see if they could be used to help me build a grid that supports grouping.�
Below is the final screen shot for my reference application.  The grid shows
the rows in the Northwind Orders table – grouped by the customer that placed the order.Â�
The group of orders for each customer can be expanded/collapsed by clicking on the
plus/minus icon (no postback required).  Read on if you are interested in the
details.  If you download the code, make sure to update the connection string
in the web.config to point to your Northwind database.

Matt
Berseth: Building a Grouping Grid with the ASP.NET 3.5 LinqDataSource and ListView
Controls

As many of you know, SCCM 2007 have reporting features for Asset Intelligence and
also for CAL license information. Interesting enough, it’s not enough to just run
the reports and have the information shown. There are a few steps you have to accomplish
before you can use Asset Intelligence (AI) and use the CAL reports. Call me naive,
but in my reading of the whitepapers, I missed how to enable and configure this to
be enabled.

Brian
Tucker : How to Enable Asset Intelligence & Client Access Licensing in SCCM 2007

After setting up SCCM 2007, I wanted to do a very limited network discovery to only
find systems in our Server VLAN (subnet). After adding the network to the subnet page
and starting a search, I was getting a list of almost all my systems.

The problem was that I overlooked two check boxes; one on the Network Discovery -
Subnets tab called Search Local Subnets and another on the Network
Discovery – Domains tab called Search local domain.

The only problem with discovering your systems using only Network Discovery is that
most of our servers did not return OS information, so it is hard to build collections
for distributing the client based on OS.

Sccm 2007 has a new client deployment method called Software update point based client
installation. The idea behind Software update point based client
installation is to publish the Sccm 2007 client as a critical update, and hence its
name is installed from the Software update point. Most of you will probably now that
Software Update management in Sccm 2007 integrates with Wsus 3.0 Sccm 2007 relies
on Wsus to synchronize the catalog and to scan clients, but that’s food for another
post.

SCCM
2007 blog by Kim Oppalfens