For those looking for the ports you need open, this is what I use for a Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 DC. LDAP TCP-in - 389 LDAP UDP in - 389 LDAP for Global Catalog TCP in - 3268 NetBIOS name Resolution UDP in - 138 SAM/LSA TCP in - 445 SAM/LSA UDP in…
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Today Microsoft released SCCM 2007 R3! Instead of going into a long blog post about all the exciting new features R3 has, I'd like to refer to an EXCELLENT run down of all the features by a co-worker of mine, Steve Rachui. If you run SCCM, R3 is definitely a worthwhile update that's painless to…
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With the new release of Flash Player 10.1 I've noticed in our environment that we were unable to install the Active X component for IE systems using the provided MSI file with SCUP. I've read in a few places that it's best to utilize the .exe instead of the .msi that is provided by Adobe.…
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Sorry for the long title. This past Tuesday Microsoft released a slew of new security patches. I won't go into detail about all of them, but suffice it to say we're seeing KB979909 become a pretty hairy thorn in our side. We deploy all of our updates via SCCM. In my pilot testing I've noticed…
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In our SCCM test environment we were installing this months Microsoft Security Updates and noticed on one test machine that all the Office 2003 Updates were failing. I hadn't seen this before, so I started to do a little digging. Knowing that SCCM really doesn't do much but call the Windows Update Agent components, I…
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Today I received an email from a tech who complained that the Configuration Manager administrator console we have installed on a Windows 2003 terminal server was hosed up. I've seen this happen in a few instances. I'm not entirely sure why the console just sits hung, but the solution that I've seen work most often…
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It's been a long time coming, and I'm very excited for the release of Configuration Manager v.Next. Listed below are just some of the bullet points in this release. You can see the full announcement here. Today we are very excited to announce the release of Beta 1 for System Center Configuration Manager v.Next. System…
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Error code 1603 by definition is just a generic windows installer (MSIexec) fatal error code. Yesterday I was seeing this for a software package deployment. The interesting part of this was this was an application that was packaged for us by a third party vendor (a vendor that will remain nameless, but has created some…
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When I got into the office this morning an email came in from one of our technicians. The issue was that he couldn't see the All Systems collection anymore and wanted me to put it back. Since I know I didn't do this, I took a look at Status Message Queries to see what happened. I…
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