If you had a maintenance window defined, but told the patches to install ignoring the maintenance window but suppress the reboots until the maintenance window will it install the updates and hold off on rebooting the clients until the maintenance window?
To answer the original question, yes you can use maintenance windows to only delay the [...]
Dec
19
2008
19
2008
Using Maintenance Windows While Patching
Nov
24
2008
24
2008
Utility for Diagramming A Configuration Manager Site with Visio
SMSMap is a freeware SCCM 2007 / SMS 2003 hierarchy drawing tool. It is an all-in-one solution for creating Visio drawings of any combination of SCCM 2007 and SMS 2003 site servers.
First released in July 2007 in the “Utility Spotlight” section of the Microsoft TechNet Magazine this is an extension to support feedback from users [...]
Aug
11
2008
11
2008
How to rebuild WMI on a client machine
Thank you to John Marcum.
Ccmclean.exe
net stop winmgmt
rename– Windows\system32\wbem\repository
net start winmgmt
rundll32 wbemupgd, RepairWMISetup
ccmsetup.exe
SCCM Client Problem – TechNet Forums
Aug
10
2008
10
2008
DudeWorks Inventory Manager
A product I am investigating.
Take control of your inventory today! Extend asset inventory in SCCM 2007 and unlock a whole new world of possibilities. Inventory Manager replaces the manual editing of text-based MOF files with [...]
Aug
6
2008
6
2008
Download details: Configuration Manager 2007 Configuration Pack
Brief Description
This Configuration Pack helps track configuration compliance for your Configuration Manager 2007 site server roles, such as management points, distribution points, and software update points.
Software installation errors and misconfigurations compromise security and stability, resulting in escalated support costs. The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Configuration Pack can help prevent errors, increasing your organizational uptime [...]
Jul
23
2008
23
2008
How to Configure Windows Server 2008 for Site System Roles
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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 [...]
Jul
16
2008
16
2008
System Center with Jason Lewis : Announcing two System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Configuration Packs
For the past several months I’ve been working on two System Center Configuration
Manager 2007 Configuration Packs. Configuration Packs are definitions for the
new Desired Configuration Management (DCM) component in ConfigMgr 2007. DCM
allows you to assess the compliance of computers against a defined configuration.Â
A configuration pack consists of one or many configuration items and zero or more
configuration [...]
Apr
24
2008
24
2008
Brian Tucker : How to Enable Asset Intelligence & Client Access Licensing in SCCM 2007
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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 [...]
Apr
22
2008
22
2008
SCCM 2007 Network Discovery finds Devices Outside of Specified Subnet
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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 [...]
Apr
10
2008
10
2008
Use WSUS to Distribute SCCM 2007 Agent
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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 [...]