New Console Objects…

Administrative Users = Users and Groups that have admin rights in ConfigMgr

Security Roles = Role based permissions in ConfigMgr

Security Scopes = Securable Objects in ConfigMgr

Now lets take a quick glance on how it actually looks like:

We are going to setup a Packaging role and see the console difference after.

1) Full console access for an Administrator

2) Select Security & Permissions –> Right Click add user or group

3) Select Packaging Group or user fro...

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As a Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) administrator, you might hear quite often a seemingly simple (but in reality very difficult) question: How many workstations our company exactly has? You know exactly how many ConfigMgr clients are on the ConfigMgr database, but how many of those are actually online and healthy? Which clients have problems with technologies that ConfigMgr utilizes e.g. WMI? If users have administrative rights on their workstations, they might even stop ConfigMgr client s...

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Microsoft IT Configuration Manager team has recently deployed Configuration Manager 2007 R3 beta in production as part of R3 dogfooding. And below are the detailed steps we documented for deploying Configuration Manager 2007 R3 beta. Special Thanks to Partha Chandran for the detailed operations documentation for R3 beta deployment.

This document highlights R3 beta upgrade preparation, server upgrade and validation tasks  to be performed post R3 beta upgrade. Please note this document is not ...

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The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) subsystem has evolved over time to become a key dependency for many applications, Configuration Manager being one of them.   We've been intertwined since the .698 build of WMI shipped with Systems Management Server 2.0 (there was even a WBEM Inventory component in SMS 1.2).  

Given this history and relationship it's important to know what to do when something goes wrong. 

I've spent many years investigating / troubleshooting WMI related issues ...

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System Center team is working in partnership with Citrix to integrate the management of XenApp with Configuration Manager. A white paper is been put together that outlines how the new capabilities can be used to improve enterprise application management. The Citrix Connector for Configuration Manager will enable unified management of applications across the desktop and XenApp Server farm environment. The connector enhances Configuration Manager, enabling administrators to orchestrate the task...
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I am pleased to let you know about a new style of courseware available for Configuration Manager which i found on one of the System Center Team Blogs and liked it very much.

This course will take you down the path of understanding how Configuration Manager 2007 can be used to perform common tasks such as Operating System deployment, software distribution and update, asset tracking and intelligence, client health reporting and management, security, and network access protection.

On this site...

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As the System Center team heads towards the release of R3, Excitement to release of a refresh build of the ConfigMgr R3 beta comes here. This release incorporates fixes as well as enhancements to Power Management reporting. You can access this refresh here.
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Configuration Manager 2007 R3 Beta released

Power management is at the core of the ConfigMgr 2007 R3 release, and addresses the need that many organizations have to monitor and reduce both power consumption and CO2 emissions.  R3 Power Management leverages the power management features built into Windows to apply relevant and consistent settings to computers in the organization. 

There are three major components to power management in R3:

• Monitoring and Planning: The Power Management f...

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