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 reboots and have the patches install ASAP.

Using Maintenance Windows While Patching – The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer

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 and support SCCM 2007

SMSMap

Ccmclean.exe

net stop winmgmt

rename– Windows\system32\wbem\repository

net start winmgmt

rundll32 wbemupgd, RepairWMISetup

ccmsetup.exe

SCCM Client Problem – TechNet Forums

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 an front end easy-to-use GUI that is integrated with the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 console.
Inventory Manager allows administrators to easily add, edit and remove inventory rules for hardware and software within Configuration Manager. Using Inventory Manager, administrators can also view and change properties and reporting attributes of built-in inventory rules, as well as create new rules for WMI values and registry keys using simple WMI and registry wizards. 
Inventory Manager provides a rule based management solution which takes all the guess-work out of asset inventory and speeds the process of defining and managing inventory items to a few minutes rather than several hours or days.

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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 and helping you build a more secure and reliable Configuration Manager 2007 infrastructure. This Configuration Pack contains Configuration Items intended to manage your Configuration Manager 2007 site system roles using the desired configuration management component in Configuration Manager 2007. This configuration pack monitors the following site system roles: management points, distribution points, and software update points. The Configuration Pack can also monitor Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) components on software update points or upstream WSUS servers. To manage your site system roles with this Configuration Pack, import and assign the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Server Roles configuration baseline to a collection which contains your Configuration Manager 2007 site systems. While there is one configuration baseline for all site systems, it evaluates compliance only for roles configured on the site system. For example, if a computer has only the distribution point role, it will not be evaluated for management point configurations. To understand in detail what each configuration item will be evaluating, review the properties of that configuration Iitem in the context of the Configuration Manager 2007 Server Role being addressed.
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 site roles covered:

• Management points
• Distribution points
• Software update points

Download details: Configuration Manager 2007 Configuration Pack

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

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