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Events – See you in Madrid courtesy of Microsoft UK

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Earlier this year with the announcement of Windows Server 2012 and SP1 for System Center, Microsoft requested that the MVP Community help raise awareness of these by blogging/ telling people about how they could download trial/ evaluations of this software.

In exchange for doing so if enough people downloaded the software Microsoft would give away various prizes at various click-through levels with the top prize being 2 x tickets to Tech Ed Europe in Madrid.

Well not only did we collectively smash ...

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18
JUN
1

Categories: Events, News, Tech Ed

ConfigMgr 2007 – ‘Server Error in Application “DEFAULT WEB SITE/SMSREPORTING_<Site_Code>”’

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Problem:

When I try to run a Report from within the Administrator Console I get the following error:

Server Error in Application “DEFAULT WEB SITE/SMSREPORTING_<Site_Code>”

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6
JUN
0

Categories: ConfigMgr 2007, Troubleshooting (CM07)

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ConfigMgr 2007 – ‘HTTP 404 Not Found – The webpage cannot be found’ When Trying to Run a Report

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When I try to run a Report I see a “HTTP 404 Not Found” tab with the page itself stating “The webpage cannot be found”

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4
JUN
1

Categories: ConfigMgr 2007, Troubleshooting (CM07)

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ConfigMgr 2012 – New R2 Page Now Up

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Drop by the Microsoft website and check out the new page for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2 where you can sign up to be notified when the Preview version is available:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/system-center/system-center-2012-r2-configuration-manager.aspx

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4
JUN
0

Categories: News, System Center

ConfigMgr 2007 – Why don’t I see the option to add a Client Push Installation Account from the ‘Accounts’ node?

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I am trying to add a Client Push Installation account to my Site but when I right-click on “Accounts” I don’t see an option of adding an account?
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4
JUN
0

Categories: ConfigMgr 2007, Troubleshooting (CM07)

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System Center 2012 R2 and new Intune releases coming very soon

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As part of “Blue” wave of releases, Microsoft has officially announced (so I no longer need to keep things secret), at TechEd North America an R2 version of System Center 2012 and a new release of Intune which will be even more tightly integrated. A public preview of R2 should be available around the end of this month which ties in with the public preview of Windows 8.1 with the products all being released by the end of this year.

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4
JUN
0

Categories: News, System Center, Tech Ed, Windows

Events – Wally’s Back in London 21st June 2013

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Wally is stopping off in the UK on Friday 21st June at the Microsoft office in Cardinal Place, Victoria, London to present a whole day on ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 and Mobile Device Management.

If you want to attend this free event then simply drop by the WMUG site to register:

http://wmug.co.uk/hubs/wmug_event_content/c/e/9.aspx

Only 100 places are available so make sure you get in fast to save disappointment and hope to see you there.

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3
JUN
1

Categories: ConfigMgr 2012, Events, News

ConfigMgr 2007 – How do I add the Client Push Installation Account?

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Question:

I need to add a Client Push Installation Account but I’m not sure how I do this. How do I add the Client Push Installation Account?
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1
JUN
0

Categories: ConfigMgr 2007, Installation & Configuration (CM07)

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ConfigMgr 2007 – ‘SMS Software Inventory Processor failed to process software inventory file “<path>\<name>.SIC”’

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Problem:

I am seeing Component Status Messages with an ID of 3707, the text of which states:

SMS Software Inventory Processor failed to process software inventory file “<ConfigMgr_installation_directory>\inboxes\auth\sinv.box\<name>.SIC” because the file does not have a corresponding discovery record. SMS Software Inventory Processor has moved this file to the Orphans directory as “<ConfigMgr_installation_directory>\inboxes\auth\sinv.box\Orphans\<name>.SIC” and will retry processing it later.

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31
MAY
0

Categories: ConfigMgr 2007, Troubleshooting (CM07)

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ConfigMgr 2012 – KB Article 2841764 Released

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Microsoft has just released the following KB Article which contains a Hotfix which you should only apply if you are seeing the issue described (you’ll also need CU1 applied before you start) :

FIX: Site assignments do not work in a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager site environment

Symptoms

Consider the following scenario:

  • You have a Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager site environment.
  • You import a third-party root certification authority (CA) certificate by using the Configuration Manager console.
  • There is an ampersand (&) or other nonalphanumeric ...
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29
MAY
1

Categories: ConfigMgr 2012, News

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