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You’ve properly heard about it and soon you’ll have the chance to try it out yourself. The System Center Online team has announced the upcoming beta release of System Center Online Desktop Manager, expected to be released this year. Register to be notified when the Desktop Manager beta is available here. Here’s what will be included in the upcoming release: Updates Management Workload:  Manage the Microsoft updates from a web-based console.  Review available updates, choose updates and deploy to selected computers or groups of computers.  Imagine WSUS from the cloud. Policy Workload: Provides the ability to configure operational settings of…

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This scenario is NOT supported, but I did it anyway, and so far everything seems to be running just fine. This upgrade was done in test environment and I don’t recommend doing this in production, unless you’re a TAP customer. Uninstalling Windows Automated Installation Kit Before running setup, you need to uninstall the previous RC version of Windows AIK. Click Start, and type Programs and Features, and press Enter. Select Windows Automated Installation Kit, and click Uninstall. Click Yes. Click Allow. Click Yes to restart the server. Log in as Administrator. Installing System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 RC Click…

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Configuration Manager Service Pack 2 release candidate is now available for download for all customers on connect. Service Pack 2 delivers new platform support for both Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2. For many of my customers, support for Windows 7 OS Deployment will be the primary reason to upgrade, and I think we’ll see the fastest adoption of a Service Pack in production environments ever… Everyone want to start deploying Windows 7 but they really need a supported deployment platform. Another great feature in Service Pack 2 is the Branch Cache…

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The System Center Configuration Manager team would like to announce that the following has been released and available for download: Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 Beta This is the official Beta build for Configuration Manager 2007 SP2. New features: Refer to the SP2 Overview article posted on the primary Configuration Manager MSConnect site for all the new features and new supported configurations Hotfixes included in SP2 article can be found on the primary Configuration Manager MSConnect page. Deployment guides for BranchCache and the new AMT features are available in the download section. . The new OpsMgr07 R2 ConfigMgr07 Management…

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Microsoft is currently building the update to System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr07) 2007 titled Service Pack 2.  The ConfgMgr Technology Adoption Program (TAP) team is pleased to announce that we are now soliciting participation in the System Center Configuration Manager Service Pack 2 Product Validation program. What’s New? ConfigMgr07 SP2 will include new OS support along with improving on the Intel AMT integration. New Operating System Support Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 SP2 Windows Vista SP2 *Branch Cache a new Windows and Windows Server 2008 R2 feature for peer to peer content distribution will be supported…

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