Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 – Released

I am very happy to see that Service Pack 1 now has been officially released and now support Windows 2008 as a site Server.
There are also some great enhancements for Asset Intelligence and other cool stuff like AMT that makes it worth upgrading.

Whats new in Configuration Manager SP1
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc161901.aspx

For thoose of you that will be upgrading to SP1 it can be downloaded here.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5AAE62E8-4B7F-4AF7-BE01-AEFAA4BF059A&displaylang=en

Excluding machines from Client Push installation

Sometimes you have machines that cannot be touched by anything other then manual work for legal or busniness critical applications. And then you might dont want the sms/sccm client to be installed automaticlly. So my question is: It it possible to exclude machines from getting the client via client push ?

The answer is yes !.

What you need to do is to a the computer to the following registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftSMSComponents SMS_DISCOVERY_DATA_MANAGER

Double click  the ExcludeServers and type in you servers in the box separated by space.

If you want a client to be installed again after it has been excluded you need to take certain actions. All information related to this is found in this KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/207729