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Uninstall WAIK Close ConfigMgr and open up Control Panel, Programs And Features. highlight Windows Automated Installation Kit and choose Uninstall answer yes when prompted and Click Allow if you see the UAC prompt. If prompted about the Windows Deployment Services Server, choose Do not close Applications and click Ok When the WAIK is uninstalled answer Yes to reboot when prompted.

This guide will show you how to upgrade from SCCM 2007 SP2 Release Candidate (or SP2 Beta) to SCCM 2007 SP2 Final, however this scenario is not supported by Microsoft. This guide was performed on a lab server running Windows Server 2008 X64 SP2, SCCM 2007 R2 SP2 release candidate installed. You can use this guide to help you plan your upgrade from SCCM 2007 SP1 to SP2. This guide is provided as is to help you in your LAB environment, if you find any errors please report them in the Forums. For best practice advice always refer to Technet and in particular refer to the Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Upgrade Checklist Verify your SCCM version Before we get started, let's verify our SCCM version. Right click on your Site Name in ConfigMgr and choose Properties. The version info should read 4.00.6468.2001 for the SP2 release candidate. Close ConfigMgr and open up control panel, add remove programs.

did you create a new ConfigMgr client package from definition after installing SP2 ?

you could script it, as i said before

what size is the file ?

here's more info about setting the variables

to continue on what Peter said, any package can have a program (or programs, or even none at all) when it comes to advertising a package you get the choice of what program to run, so you could create a separate advertisement for the same package which uses a different program, and the different program is simply the silent install with the relevant uninstall switches if you look at this screenshot you can imagine a new advertisement and the drop down menu for Program could contain your newly created Uninstall program for Firefox appdeploy.com gives a lot of good info on installation/uninstallation switches for apps please give it a try and post your results of same here so that others can benefit cheers niall

wow loads of questions and i'll try and answer some... I would keep os patches in separate packages that way if you someday have to troubleshoot patches back to the originating level it'll be easier to work with, and there are other reasons, but yes, you can keep all os patches together in one big package. yes it can and yes it will just like windows update nope, unless you uninstall the update and its required.. you have to physically delete it, but you can automate it with scripts, if you find one that works for you please share it here, but for a starting point look at this

you could just delete the advertisement and recreate it, that would be the easiest thing for you

could be network driver or HAL related, easiest thing is to update the nic drivers and see

It's October 22 today. A completely random date in the grand scheme of things (we Dutch lost a big naval battle to the Ming dynasty on October 22 1633), but it also happens to be the release date of the newest version of Windows - Windows 7. Since Windows is still the most popular desktop operating system out there, this is pretty big news. The problem, of course, with releases like Windows 7 is that the new operating system has already been torn apart and examined in great detail over the past 10-12 months, so there's little in there that will surprise anyone who has't been living under a digital rock the past year or so. I could list the new features and improvements, but you probably already know everything there is to know. read the whole article here > http://www.osnews.com/story/22378/Windows_7_Hits_the_Shelves

check this out, absolutely genius ! My link

are the images XP ?

finally the moment we have been waiting for, SCCM 2007 Sp2 is out now Get it > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3318741a-c038-4ab1-852a-e9c13f8a8140

it doesn't work that way, however you can use the unknown computers collection in R2 to deal with your problem

have you seen this yet ?

yeah but he's running in mixed more, so no need for a PKI structure.. on my sccm lab (mixed) it also has no boot media certificate i tested creating a Capture task sequence and it worked just fine, perhaps his pxe certificate date is expired ?

this should give you some ideas... http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/506-how-can-i-prestage-a-computer-for-wds/

yes it will based on discovery settings and on whether you update the Collection Membership and refresh.

check if the duplicate machine is listed as Obsolete=Yes, if so you can delete it

do as Peter suggests, get your boundaries setup correctly if not your clients will not be manageable..

use collection based on queries for example, to have a collection which only shows your Windows Server 2008 X64 based machines the query would be like so select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM on SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.ResourceId = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_R_System.OperatingSystemNameandVersion like "%Server 6.0%" and SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.SystemType = "x64-based PC" you can then manage the computers picked up in these collections and advertise software to those collections or windows updates, or more

you could do it with mdt and a lot of scripting or do it with sccm and have the ability to manage them afterwards,

A little over two weeks ago, Microsoft released Microsoft Security Essentials, a security software suite protecting users of Windows against malware and viruses. The company has released data about the number of downloads and fixed infections, and the results are encouraging. In the first week of MSE's availability (September 29 to October 6), the program was downloaded 1.5 million times (after week two, 2.6 million times). In its first week, MSE made almost four million detections on a total of 535752 unique machines, so it seems like it is doing its job. Over half of the detections were made on Windows XP machines, and just under a third were made on Vista machines. The remainder detections were probably on Windows 7 machines. Another interesting tidbit: the most popular Windows version among MSE downloaders is Windows 7, and one third of these Windows 7 installation is 64bit. The 64bit version of Windows (since XP) has additional security measures such as Kernel Patch Protection. more > http://www.osnews.com/story/22359/MSE_s_First_Week_4_Million_Detections_on_0_5_Million_Machines

it's all covered right here in the Deploy 7 section of windows noob.