Most of you already have knowledge about the power of SCUP used together with ConfigMgr. System Center Custom Updates (SCUP) gives you the possibilities to include 3rd. party updates in your normal Configuration Manager software update deployments. One of the downsizes to SCUP is that it requires high level of knowledge about each update you [...]

When configuring software updates with ConfigMgr. one of the challenges that I run into the most; is hiding software update notifications from some clients while allowing a full notification on other computers.
You can solve this challenge in two different ways.

Hide all software update deployments and create a package that will display notifications on [...]

As some of you might already be aware of; MS10-015 (KB977165) might cause a BSOD. As far as I have read the problem is not the update itself, but caused by an existing infection on the computer.  For updates on this issue be sure to check – http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/11/restart-issues-after-installing-ms10-015.aspx

As you might know SMS/Configmgr; has some secret files that can change the way agents behave. One of the files is called archive_reports.sms. When you add this file to the inventory temp folder (\system32\ccm\inventory\temp\) it will prevent the inventory xml files from being deleted after they are send to the management point. This can be [...]

You know how when ever you run something from a prompt in Windows 7 or Server2008 you need to remember to elevate the privileges, or you will get the annoying message that you do not have administrative privileges, which then means you will have to open a new prompt, run it as administrator,  and do [...]

Its Friday the weekend is coming up and what I don’t want is a day filled errors . On the other hand, errors can be a cool way to start the weekend – if you get them solved! The first 10 minutes at the customer site went according to my plan. I got some coffee [...]

Looking at the compliance reports I see that most of updates are installing ok but some are constantly saying “Waiting for another installation to complete”
The updates won’t install and end-users are constantly getting an error saying the another installation process is already running. It’s not another running process causing the problem, so restarting services won’t [...]

Just spend a few hours this morning troubleshooting a new Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 R2 installation.  I started to search the Internet for a solution and didn’t really find any good blog entries. Found a few similar errors posted in the Technet forums and thought I would write a post on the subject.
The errors
After configuring [...]

Download a step by step description of customizing and deploying Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007

Adobe has just informed about a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader 9.2 and earlier versions  – which is well… all Adobe Reader versions An update to fix the vulnerability will be released mid January 2010.
You can read the bulletin here – http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-07.html
Disable Adobe Reader JavaScript manually
1. Launch Adobe Reader. [...]