Issue with Windows XP SP3 Volume License

A few days ago I had to make an image with Windows XP SP3 with all needed applications for lite touch installation. Everything went well and I was happy until I entered the mini-setup phase on the first computer with that image applied on it. I received an error regarding the product key. I guess…

February 4, 2009 · 1 min · 160 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

How Microsoft IT is using Configuration Manager 2007

Do you know how Microsoft IT manages thousands of servers worldwide in multiple countries for a large number of departments and customers using SCCM 2007? If no, then you should listen to this 30 minutes podcast: Microsoft IT Business Case for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 in a Data Center. And here is the full…

December 31, 2008 · 1 min · 82 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

“The ConfigMgr Provider reported an error”

Today I came across an interesting problem in ConfigMgr while creating a Windows Vista image of reference computer. And again, ConfigMgr 2007 displays the error with not much intuitive help. I’m using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 with ConfigMgr 2007 when I need to deploy an operating system. At the end of the imported Task Sequence,…

December 31, 2008 · 2 min · 236 words · Vitalie Ciobanu