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Maintaining and Improving Security for Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007 and Network Access Protection. SCCMNAP is dedicated to supporting the Configuration Manager community to enhance and improve the manageability of security in Systems Center Configuration Manager.  

Details for obtaining 100% ConfigMgr Client Installation & Reach

Requirements: Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) Configuration Manager Site with Software Update enabled Organizational Unit or Security Group 2 Configuration Manager ADM Templates Active Directory Group Policy Object Windows Server Update Service ...

Using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to Extend Network Health

New customer/partner-ready content from Microsoft IT Microsoft IT Showcase is pleased to announce the publication of Using Configuration Manager 2007 to Extend Software Update Compliance Across Networks , which discusses how Microsoft IT uses Microsoft...

SCCM is not the Official acronym for Configuration Manager 2007

"SCCM" is not the official acronym for Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007. " ConfigMgr " is. "SCCM" is not owned as a trademark by Microsoft and therefore we really cannot use it. But I have noticed that many people have picked up on...

The Official System Center Configuration Manager Home Page

Some how I stumbled on a web page I never seen been for, which is cool. The official home page for System Center Configuration Manager. As you'll notice on the front page that it does not say 2007. most likely because the site is not dedicated to...

Microsoft migrates MSDN and TechNet on Hyper-V virtual machines

Friday, May 23, 2008 | 5 Comments | For a prospect customer there's nothing better than a real-world implementation to realize the potential or a certain technology. And this is very true in an almost unexplored technology like virtualization. Microsoft...

How to Add domain accounts to Local Administrators Group using GPO

There are a lot of questions in newsgroups, forums etc. about how to use Restricted Groups in the right way so I wanted to post a how-to for people to read. Finding Restricted Groups is easy but it only works in a domain with Active Directory so trying...

GPMC for Windows Vista SP1

Microsoft came through for IT administrators. They recently released RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools) for Windows Vista SP1. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d647a60b-63fd-4ac5-9243-bd3c497d2bc5&DisplayLang=en (x64...

SCCM is not the Official acronym for Configuration Manager 2007

"SCCM" is not the official acronym for Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007. " ConfigMgr " is. "SCCM" is not owned as a trademark by Microsoft and therefore we really cannot use it. But I have noticed that many people have picked up on...

How can I force clients to use a different WUA Server?

I found a question that popped up a few times on discussions blogs: Question: I incorrectly configured the SUP on one of my remote sites and so all these clients are looking at the parent site for Software Updates. I've checked the WUAHandler.log...