May 2007 - Technical Rollup Mail - Manageability
News
Announcing System Center Capacity Planner 2007 Beta 1
Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2007 helps size and plan deployments of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and System Center Operations Manager 2007. It provides you with the tools and guidance to deploy efficiently, while planning for the future by allowing for "what-if" analyses.
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TechNet Virtual Labs: System Center
System Center is the Microsoft family of systems management products and solutions, focused on providing IT professionals with the tools and knowledge to help manage their IT infrastructure. In this series of Virtual Labs, see how Systems Management Server (SMS) and Operations Manager (MOM) help you ease operations, reduce troubleshooting time, and improve your planning capabilities.
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/traincert/virtuallab/systemcenter.mspx
Events/WebCasts
With the pending launch of System Center Essentials 2007, here is a collection of webcasts demonstrating some of the key functionality that ships with this productSystem Center Essentials 2007 Webcasts on TechNet
Add monitoring using the Authoring space
Presenter: David Mills, Microsoft
This video demonstrates how to add monitoring to a critical website using System Center Essentials 2007.
Running Time (minutes): 3:05
Date Posted: April 26, 2007
Managing computer and devices with System Center Essentials 2007
Presenter: Casey McKinnon, Microsoft
This video demonstrates the process of discovering new computers using the Essentials Discovery Wizard.
Running Time (minutes): 2:29
Date Posted: April 26, 2007
Presenter: Casey McKinnon, Microsoft
This video demonstrates managing computers using the Essentials Computers space.
Running Time (minutes): 2:32
Date Posted: April 26, 2007
Presenter: David Mills, Microsoft
This video demonstrates using the Monitoring space in System Center Essentials 2007.
Running Time (minutes): 2:30
Date Posted: April 26, 2007
Presenter: Dustin Jones, Microsoft
This video demonstrates the Essentials 2007 software distribution capabilities (deploying Windows Defender).
Running Time (minutes): 2:56
Date Posted: April 26, 2007
Presenter: Casey McKinnon, Microsoft
This video provides an overview on how to import third-party updates using System Center Essentials 2007.
Date Posted: March 2, 2007
Presenter: Casey McKinnon, Microsoft
This video provides an overview on configuring update management settings, viewing synchronization status, deploying updates, and viewing deployment status reports.
Date Posted: March 2, 2007
Deploying Office 2007 with System Center Essentials 2007
Presenter: Scott Bleasdell, Microsoft
This video shows how to quickly create a software deployment package for Office 2007 and approve the package for deployment to Windows client computers using System Center Essentials 2007.
Running Time (minutes): 4:06
Getting Started with System Center Essentials 2007
Presenter: Scott Bleasdell, Microsoft
This video provides a high-level overview of all of the major features of System Center Essentials 2007.
New KB’s
KB934160: The MOM service may use 100 percent of CPU operations and the MOM service may stop responding on a MOM 2005 agent-managed computer.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/932767
KB934700: Error message when you reinstall MOM 2005, and then you restore the previous MOM 2005 OnePoint database: "Was unable to submit the request to the MOM Management Server" https://support.microsoft.com/kb/934700
KB926665: When a computer enters hibernation, scripts stop responding on a computer that is running Microsoft Operations Manager 2005.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/926665
KB933788: Status messages are not processed or summarized after you create a new Status Filter rule in Systems Management Server 2003.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/933788
KB934380: The Backup SMS Site Server maintenance task logs an "Unable to verify installation" error in SMS 2003.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/934380
KB923026: After you remove software updates from an SMS 2003 package, the package update link table incorrectly lists these programs
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/923026
KB926130: After you deploy a new image on a SMS 2003 client computer, the SMS client computer is not discovered by Active Directory discovery methods.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/926130
KB925791: Systems Management Server 2003 client computers cannot communicate with a management point when the computer name contains an underscore character.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/925791
KB925142: After you import a Package Definition File (.pdf) that contains dependent programs in SMS 2003, the dependent programs are not run.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/925142
KB921466: When the countdown timer dialog box appears, you cannot access the "Welcome to Windows" logon screen to log on to a Systems Management Server 2003 client computer. https://support.microsoft.com/kb/921466
KB934207: Systems Management Server 2003 reports that contain an ampersand character do not return expected results.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/934207
KB933986: Installation of the SMS 2003 Advanced Client is not successful, and error code 3221225578 appears in the Security log.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/933986
KB936044: Error message when you try to install Systems Management Server 2003 Service Pack 3 on a computer that is running Windows Vista: "Not enough storage is available to process this command" https://support.microsoft.com/kb/936044
KB917369: Error message when you try to change some properties of a previously authorized software update package in SMS 2003: "The file failed a security check. The file hash doesn't match the information in the database"
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/917369
KB917367: The Security Warning dialog box still appears after you select the "Always accept software from this publisher" option in the Distribute Software Updates Wizard in SMS 2003.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/917367
KB933870: Advertisements that have a recurring schedule are off by one hour in SMS 2003 when the time changes between British Summer Time (BST) and Coordinated Universal Time.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/933870
KB934874: Error logged when Systems Management Server 2003 Distribution Manager tries to copy package source files to a remote distribution point: "Win32 Error = 5".
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/934874
KB932993: The Delete Aged Discovery Data site maintenance task may take more than one minute to remove each user object in SMS 2003 with Service Pack 2.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/932993