System Center Guide

While recently testing Desired Configuration Management features of System Center Configuration Manager with a client, we ran into an issue with the DCM baselines coming down but not actually running or creating the client-side reports. After reviewing the DCMAgent.log file, it was determined that we were missing the  appropriate .NET framework version on the client.

The following article specifies that .NET framework version 2.0 or later is required for this feature to work.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680801.aspx

The System Center Professional User Group of Jacksonville will hold their 4th quarter meeting on November 19, 2008 at 6:30 P.M.  It will take place at New Horizons Learning Center, 7020 A.C Skinner Parkway Suite #180, Jacksonville, FL, 32256.
 
A meet and greet period is scheduled for 6:30 to 7:30 with food and drinks provided.  This will be followed by a presentation from sponsor SecureVantage Technologies entitled “Security Auditing with System Center Operations Manager and the Audit Collection Service.”  All System Center Professionals in North Florida are invited.
 
SPUGJax was created to connect I.T. professionals working in the Microsoft System Center ecosystem with products such as SMS, SCCM, MOM, SCOM, Microsoft virtualization technologies, SoftGrid and the many third-party tools that support System Center.
 
Please forward this post along to anyone you know working with Microsoft server applications.  Thank you.
 
A special thanks to all of those that attended the first meeting.  It was a great success.  1E, Inc. presented their suite of applications and provided sandwiches, drinks, sides and cookies by Jason’s Deli.
 
 
Respectfully yours,
 
Dan Taylor and Ivan Lindenfeld
http://spugjax.tech.officelive.com

The first public beta of SCCM Client Center V2.0 is online at: http://smsclictr.sourceforge.net/smsclictrv2/ 

This beta version is for testing only and should not be used in a productive environment. Feature-Requests and Issues should be reported on the smsclictrv2 Tracker (NOTE: a Sourceforge Account is required!).

Tip:

You must enable each program that is associated with a Task Sequence application installation (including the SCCM client) to be available during Task Sequence execution without an Advertisement. To do so, just select the properties for the appropriate program (most commonly Per System Unattented Installation) and tick the checkbox at the bottom of the resulting tab.

If this item isn’t selected, all applications intended to be installed during the Task Sequence will fail. No Microsoft Updates will be installed and the User State will not be migrated as the Configuration Manager client will not be present.

USMT GUI is “just” a user interface for Microsofts User State Migration Tool. 
 

Features: 

- Simple backup of userdata from Windows 2000 SP4, XP and Vista.
- Restore to XP and Vista and also restore Vista backup to XP (making a Vista to XP downgrade easier than ever!)
- Selection of what filetypes to migrate and where to restore.
- Possible to generate and use customized Config.xml file.
- Script builder that creates the scripts needed for automatic migrates.

Download from: http://usmtgui.ehler.dk/

Immediately after resolving the 0×00004005 error, I ran into another one: 0×80070002. While this one proved to be a bit more challenging, I managed to resolve the matter by restoring the MigUser.xml file to the version included with USMT 3.0.1. Apparently, my additions to include PDF and GRV files didn’t take. I’ll look into this further, but for now I’m back in business!

You may receive a 0×80004005 error during the capture user state task during an operating system deployment using SCCM. If so, check the properties of your State Migration Point (SMP) to ensure that the “Enable restore-only mode” option isn’t selected. If that box is checked then the SMP will reject any new store requests.

My first major disappointment with running 64-bit  Windows Server 2008 on my HP Compaq 6910p laptop system was the lack of support for Live Writer. Now, rather than being able to author my content using a great WYSIWYG editor, I’m reduced to having to use the WordPress administrative console. Tsk, tsk… Why, Microsoft? Why do you prevent the installation of such a wonderful resource to only desktop-based platforms? Did you not think that your MVPs would adopt this platform and seek to blog about their findings? Why would you limit our capabilities of using and furthering the cause of the Live platform? This only seems like one of the arbitrary system requirements that doesn’t have rooted justification.

Here is the agenda for the November 14th SMUG meeting.
This meeting will be at the Microsoft Office in Alpharetta, GA. When the RSVP link is ready I’ll post it. Breakfast and lunch will be provided, as well as some swag.
Special thank you goes out to our presenters, sponsors Acresso Software, Secure Vantage Technologies, and to Microsoft for hosting the meeting.

9:00 - 9:10 SMUG    Introduction   
9:15 - 9:35 CCMWindows w/ SMS 2003, Mark Mears
9:40 - 10:50 System Center Virtualization Management, Greg Cameron 
Break
11:00 - 12:10 Managing VMware w/ Powershell (Lunch), Hal Rottenberg
12:15 - 1:25 Best Practices for Traditional and Virtual Application Management, Evan Orgel
1:30 - 2:40 App-V / SoftGrid w/ SCCM 2007 R2, Troy Wilch
2:50 - 4:00 ACS Design and Planning, Jeremiah Beckett - Secure Vantage
Wrap Up

Thank you,
Scott Moss - SMUG VP
Marcus Oh - SMUG VP