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