If you are running application installs within your Task Sequence and you are running SP1 of Configuration Manager you will bump into a 90 second delay between every application. So if you have 200 applications in your task sequence the deployment will take allot of time. Microsoft is currently working on a fix for this until then you can get around it by using the RTM Client instead of the SP1 client binaries in your Apply Client – Task Sequence Step.
The SMS Extended Security Update Inventory tool is a scan tool built for the sole purpose of helping customers determine SMS client computers that may need security updates that are not detectable using the existing SMS Security Update Inventory Tool built on MBSA. Like the SMS Software Update Inventory tool, this tool also has the instructions for locating each applicable update, downloading it from Microsoft, and deploying it using SMS . The SMS Extended Security Update Inventory Tool is built on Enterprise Scan Tool (EST) detection technology. For more information about the exact detection capabilities of EST and how it differs from MBSA, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 894193. For more information on the SMS Extended Security Update Inventory Tool, please see the included user guide and release notes.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2C93DA1D-48A0-4E5C-991F-87E08954F61B&displaylang=en
Lately I have seen some questions regarding discovery log files. For thoose of you who want to know the names of the default log files for discovery here they are !
- AD_SYSTEM - adsysdis.log
- AD_SECURITY_GROUP - adsgdis.log
- AD_SYSTEM_GROUP - adsysgrp.log
- AD_USER - adusrdis.log
- NETWORK - netdisc.log
Have you also upgraded to Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 ? When you do this there will be a new Maintanance Task wich is called “Delete Aged Delete Detection Data Task” ! And then you think what does this do ? Today this task doesnt do anything, its for the future integration with future System Center Service Manager so you will have to bare untill ~2010 to use that.
Yesterday the KB953649 was published and here you can find more information the Hotfixes that is included in SP1.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953649/en-us
Config Mgr | stesch | 
June 30, 2008 16:56 | 
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