There has definitely been a lot of hoopla around Service Pack (SP) 1 for System Center 201 ...

A common ask is how much space is needed to store user state data captured by USMT. This i ...

In a recent post about ConfigMgr 2012 Application Installation Failures, I discussed appl ...

Forest Discovery is a new feature in ConfigMgr 2012 that enables ConfigMgr to dynamicall ...

I’ve seen this as an issue now a few times now in my lab and production environments as we ...

With the latest update to WSUS (described in KB2720211) also came an update to the WUA, ve ...

Why are 32-bit application installers special and why do they need special handling? First ...

I’ve seen a lot of environments and the one typical commonality is that there simply was n ...

From time to time, I hear of or read about someone troubleshooting what they think may be ...

Boundary Groups were introduced in ConfigMgr 2012 to combine boundaries together and give ...

After a lot of work, here’s my latest incarnation of the startup script, version 1.54: htt ...

Scenario: Deploy an application using the new application deployment capabilities of Confi ...

This is my long planned post on the evils of IP Subnet boundaries in ConfigMgr – this incl ...

This seemingly simple task stumps and trips up a lot of people in both ConfigMgr 2007 and ...

Multicast is a commonly misunderstood technology particularly with respect to OSD in Confi ...

My Three Big Sticky Notes Time to finally transfer my notes from three big yell ...

Mobile Device Management is a very popular topic in enterprises as of late and so the ques ...

Here's a quick synopsis of two issues I had at my recent customer installing some "package ...

So was Adobe sucking up to Apple when they decided to use the roman numeral for the versio ...

I recently stumbled onto a somewhat major issue during OSD that is the result of a fundame ...

Here's a simple little script to install fonts during OSD. Note that this is an example of ...

Questions often come on the forums about Heartbeat Discovery including how often should th ...

About the only method for troubleshooting issues in OSD is to drop to a command-prompt (by ...

As many folks know, there is a known issue with Software Updates in Windows 7 Task Sequenc ...

So what exactly do each of these options do in an advertisement? The TechNet documentati ...

Client hotfixes in ConfigMgr has become an often discussed topic as of late mainly because ...

Inspired by a recent forum thread (and John Marcum), I put together a little test to verif ...

Recently at a client in production and in my home lab, I ran into the an issue where the S ...

Working at a client troubleshooting some weird ConfigMgr (not SCCM) client agent issues. B ...

I "discovered" this last night in my lab and had it confirmed to me this morning by the p ...

We all know (or will now) that if a client misses a mandatory advertisement in ConfigMgr f ...

This post is a continuation of my previous post: ConfigMgr Software Update Management and ...

There is definitely a lot of confusion about how Group Policies interact with, control, an ...

Q. What's new in USMT 4? A. Easier to reference a link on this one: http://technet.micros ...

So COM is a huge topic that I can't even imagine scratching the surface of in a single pos ...

At my current customer we are performing a clean, side-by-side upgrade from their current ...

By now, most folks know that there are some major changes between IIS 6 (included with Win ...

Holy cow batman! The title says it all and is the conclusion of one Mark Russinovich -- Wi ...

I run across a lot of questions in the forums and from customers about why their batch fil ...

What's the difference? Why two types? When should I use each? These are frequent queries ...

I often make use of what I call "Roll-up Collections" in ConfigMgr. These are parent coll ...

I was at a customer this week doing a one-day, whirlwind tour of Operating System Deployme ...

Working with a customer recently, they had an issue using SAN attached disks during Operat ...

It is pretty well known how to add custom extensions to the Configuration  Manager hardwa ...

Hardware Inventory isn't a huge topic, but there are a lot of details -- far more than I c ...

I just stumbled on this today; i.e., I can't take credit for all of it (http://develnet.bl ...

Just thought I'd document the steps taken at a recent customer engagement for deploying Wi ...

As I've described in the previous two installments, the KMS is a pretty simple and straigh ...

A Key Management Server system is any system in your environment that you installed using ...

Windows Activation, to some, has become confusing and a source of constant trouble. Why? B ...

A problem that crops up on the forums every now and then in addition to causing me to pull ...

No, I am not anti-Configuration Manager, quite the opposite in fact. I am against the use ...

Well, I'm not actually that old, but I did learn a new trick today. I've been fighting the ...

As a discovery exercise, I created a small, stand-alone app using AutoIT that displays a d ...

While answering a forum post I was reminded that SQL Reporting Services 2008 no longer req ...

Today, I visited a customer that I had installed an evaluation version of Configuration Ma ...

Microsoft just released a new hotfix that allows you to suppress the plug and play UI in W ...

A new feature of Configuration Manager 2007 R2 is the ability to define a Task Sequence Va ...

Administrators new to System Center Configuration Manager (and SMS) are often befuddled by ...

In troubleshooting an unrelated issue, I learned a lot about Certificate Revocation Lists ...

Although they've been around for a while, certificates are a relatively new thing for admi ...

Windows 2003 introduced the ability to move Active-Directory integrated DNS zones from the ...

I just hit an interesting snag when deploying XP using source files and a build & capt ...

Server Manager is the much talked about new, all-in-one, handy-dandy MMC snap-in to manage ...

In many corporate environments, unstructured data ownership is often taken for granted. Us ...

Here's an oldie but goodie (IMHO). I was looking to review Kerberos concepts and remembere ...