Configuration Manager 2007 is RTM

10, 9 , 8 , 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 – > Ignition

Yesterday the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 had liftoff and was signd for RTM. I am very happy and this will will bring pain to my heart as I wont get any sleep for the next coming weeks of installation .  As you might now SCCM is full of new features to highligt some of them, I would say, Internet Based Client Management and Imporoved Software update management.

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New and recently updated KB Articles

New and recently updated KB Articles for the last few weeks.

• The SMS 2003 Operating System Deployment Feature Pack may take longer than you expect to install an operating system image in SMS 2003 with SP1
• SMS: How to Upgrade Windows NT Workstation 3.51 to 4.0 w/ SMS
• SMS: Problems with the AddSystem and Addsytemgui SMS Resource Kit Utilities
• The SMS 2003 Administrator Console stops responding when you connect to a SMS 2.0 site server
• Multiple instances of the same SMS Legacy Client computer appear in the SMS 2003 Administrator console
• You cannot connect to the SMS database or expand nodes in the SMS Administrator console tree when you run SMS in Windows XP SP2
• Remote Administrators cannot browse collections, packages, or other nodes when connected to a Windows NT 4.0-based SMS 2.0 site server that has been upgraded to SMS 2.0 Service Pack 5
• Users of the SMS Administrator console with only Read permission to a collection can install SMS clients
• An access violation may occur in the SMS Agent Host service when you run a software inventory on an Advanced Client that is running SMS 2003 with SP1
• After you click Next on the “Identify the SMS Package” page in the Distribute Software Updates Wizard, you may experience a long delay in SMS 2003
  

Microsoft product lifecycle

Are you wondering when your support for your Microsoft products will go EOL, this is the page for you.

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselectserv

Upcoming Configuration Manager 2007 Books.

 Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Administrator’s Companion (Perfect Paperback)
by Steven D. Kaczmarek

Perfect Paperback: 850 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press (January 30, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735623856
ISBN-13: 978-0735623859

Book link to Amazon

Mastering System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (Paperback)
by Brad Price and Jason Rutherford

Paperback: 888 pages
Publisher: Sybex; Pap/Onl edition (January 22, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 047017367X
ISBN-13: 978-0470173671

Book link to Amazon

Script: Delete files older then x days.

The other day I got a question if they could delete files in a folder older then 7 days automaticlly. I solved the question with a script and a scheduled task. And I thought id share the script with you. I would like to thank Fredrik Wall for script review.

‘This is a script to delete files older then specified days

Option Explicit

Dim oFSO
Dim sDirectoryPath
Dim oFolder
Dim oFileCollection
Dim oFile
Dim iDaysOld

‘iDaysold = NumberofDays
iDaysOld = 7

‘sDirectoryPath = “Folder to deleteFiles in”
sDirectoryPath = “C:\Tempforanexample”

On Error Resume Next

Set oFSO = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
If objFSO.FolderExists(sDirectoryPath) Then
Set oFolder = oFSO.GetFolder(sDirectoryPath)
Set oFileCollection = oFolder.Files

For each oFile in oFileCollection
If oFile.DateLastModified < (Date() – iDaysOld) Then
oFile.Delete(True)
End If
Next
else
WScript.Echo “No Folder”
End If

Set oFSO = Nothing
Set oFolder = Nothing
Set oFileCollection = Nothing
Set oFile = Nothing

Softgrid Team blog

Hi , I am back from vaccation and its time to continue writing articles and posts here. If you havent visited and put the Softgrid Team Blog on rss its time to do that now, its full of interesting articles and knowledge.

Today they published a article about Troubleshooting SoftGrid with Process Monitor

 So please visit their blog here.