Archives for: July 2009

Last week a couple of new hotfixes have been released:

The Task Sequence Media Wizard incorrectly calculates the required space and generates many CD or DVD images if the task sequence references multiple programs in the same package in System Center Configuration Manager 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=971689

Some programs are not executed when the "If an application fails, continue installing other applications in the list" option is enabled in System Center Configuration Manager 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=970636

Hardware Inventory data files larger than 50MB may fail to process on a ConfigMgr 2007 site server
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=973754

Hotfix 970636 is already included in Service Pack 2 for ConfigMgr. For a complete list of all the 76 hotfixes in Service Pack 2 click here.

The title says it all, Configuration Manager goes Unleashed.

In the past several months, I have been working as a contributing author for the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Unleashed book. I’m proud to announce that the book is now finished and released to the printer.

The book contains 1224 (index included) pages and delivers a deep dive through designing, deployment, setup, features and components. The book covers Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 and the R2 add-on, and advance information on Service Pack 2 is included.

The lead author of the book is Kerrie Meyler (MVP OpsMgr) which was also the lead author of the famous System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed book and is starting work on an eBook for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.
Other coauthors and contributors of the book are Byron Holt, Greg Ramsey, Jason Sandys, Cameron Fuller, Tony Puca, and Pete Zerger. Steve Rachui was the technical reviewer!

You can already pre-order the book through Amazon at http://tinyurl.com/5gtlkg and find additional information at http://configmgr.spaces.live.com. It will be available early August of this year.

I want to thank Kerrie for the opportunity to work with her!

Today I received a special email from Microsoft with the congratulations for presenting me the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for the year 2009.

Dear Jannes Alink,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in System Center Configuration Manager technical communities during the past year.

The Microsoft MVP Award provides us the unique opportunity to celebrate and honor your significant contributions and say "Thank you for your technical leadership."

This award is part of the MVP program. More information about this program can be found here.

Thanks to everyone who made this happen.