When you first deploy NightWatchman, chances are that you probably have not created any Location Groups yet.  If so when you open NightWatchman Management Console, you will see all of the inventoried NightWatchman clients listed in the UNASSIGNED BUILDING location group.  It would be kin... [More]

Planning to deploy script which will enable Wake-On-Lan for all target computers.  Before doing so, I wanted to get a list models for each.  Creating a query for something like this is applicable to just about any ConfigMgr environment and the admins would find valuable. Queries li... [More]

I just ran across this in my Native Mode ConfigMgr site hierarchy, where the MP at the Central Site had a number of these entries in the MPControl.log.  The problem turned out to be that the Web Server certificate was not binding to the website on the server (NMCM01.contoso.com).  It was... [More]

Let me first state that this is not necessarily a problem with MDT 2008 or ConfigMgr, but has to do with setting share-level permissions.  So who should be responsible for doing that?  The product (automated), or the admin (manually)? So let’s walk through creating the proble... [More]

After installing MDT 2008, you can then integrate it with ConfigMgr by running the Configure ConfigMgr Integration wizard. In doing this, I uncovered an issue where if the ConfigMgr SMS Provider is NOT installed on the site server, the wizard will error-out.  A hint to the root cause of... [More]