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A new DCM Energy Star Pack is available!!!

Product Overview:

With this configuration pack for Configuration Manager 2007 Desired Configuration Management (DCM), organizations can ensure that IT systems comply with ENERGY STAR guidelines. The configuration pack enables organizations to assess display and hibernation settings on Windows XP or Windows Vista operating systems.

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The new Configuration manager documentation library is available now for this time Updated: March 1, 2010.

Planning and Deploying the Server Infrastructure for Configuration Manager 2007

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I find a important message from the System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog.

I absolutely wanted to talk about this problem that exists in Config mgr with Supernet in Active Directory Sites Used as Site Boundaries:

Here are the message:

We have recently updated the Configuration Manager Documentation Library regarding site boundary configurations.  This change was made to clarify the use of supernets, which remain unsupported but have been a source of confusion resulting in support calls.   The confusion comes when an Active Directory site is configured as a boundary and that Active Directory site contains one or more supernets.

Configuration Manager does not support supernets for site boundaries.  This includes supernets defined directly in the Configuration Manager console as IP subnets, and supernets defined indirectly in the Configuration Manager console as Active Directory sites that contain supernets. Supernets can result in inconsistent behavior for Configuation Manager actions that use boundary configurations, such as site discovery and auto-site assignment for clients, and content location for when clients find distribution points to download packages.

Two common problems you might see when using supernets include the following:

• Clients are unable to discover and to automatically assign to the correct site.
• Clients fail to download packages because they are not given the expected distribution points .

It’s easy to miss that supernets might be the underlying cause of these problems because of inconsistent behavior.  Some clients that use supernets can behave as expected, while others do not.   Configuration Manager 2007 was not designed to support supernets as boundaries, and while this configuration might work for some clients, it remains officially unsupported.

When clients exhibit unexpected behavior for boundary related tasks, validate that you have only supported boundary configurations in the Configuration Manager console and within the Active Directory sites configured as boundaries.  For example, if you find that you’ve defined an Active Directory site as a boundary and this Active Directory site contains supernets, remove the Active Directory site boundary configuration and replace it with the exact subnets.

If this reconfiguration is not practical because of high administrative overheads, you might consider adding the relevant subnets to supplement the existing boundary configuration.  This approach might eliminate the requirement to specify each subnet.  We’ve heard that some customers have been successful with this configuration but it has not been tested by the product group and so it remains unsupported.  For example, one possible consequence of this configuration might be that clients are given incorrect distribution points, such as a protected distribution point across a WAN when this was not your intended behavior.

The December documentation update clarifies the unsupported configuration of using supernets for boundary configuration in the following topics:

• Choose Configuration Manager Boundaries
• Planning Configuration Manager Boundaries

More information on the Configuration Manager Support Team blog: Some ConfigMgr 2007 clients never install packages, report status of « Waiting on content »

Many thanks to our colleagues in CSS – Clifton Hughes, Keith Thornley, Ryan Anderson – for bringing this to our attention, and to Brent Dunsire who helped us to clarify the use of supernets in the documentation and provide this additional information for customers.

Thanks to The Configuration Manager Writing Team

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I find a gret video and projet on the Microsoft research site, if you want to know to drawing with windows 7 clic HERE!!!

What’s Project Gustav?:

Project Gustav is a realistic painting-system prototype that enables
artists to become immersed in the digital painting experience. It
achieves interactivity and realism by leveraging the computing power of
modern GPUs, taking full advanta

ge of multitouch and tablet input
technology and our novel natural media-modeling and brush-simulation
algorithms. Project Gustav is a great example of how Microsoft’s
research efforts are leading to exciting new technologies to support
creativity.

See the Sources

Thanks to the creator Bill BUXTON!!!

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Microsoft Application Virtualization Dashboard Beta is available for Appv 4.5 and 4.6!!!

What’s Microsoft Application Virtualization Dashboard Beta:

The Application Virtualization (App-V) Dashboard helps customers monitor virtualized software applications with a graphical display that makes it easy to stay on top of application usage, health, and compliance. Using the Dashboard’s built-in charts, gauges, and tables, customers can track any APP-V dataset in near-real time.

Benefits of the dashboard include:

• Actionable information out of the box. The Dashboard comes with a wide range of valuable built-in reports, such as Top 5 Applications Used, Top 5 Users, Applications Never Used, Application Usage for a Specific User, System Utilization, and many more.
• Near-real-time access to key information. The graphical Dashboard lets customers view any App-V dataset in near-real time.
• Easy to build and configure. The Dashboard’s wizard-based tools let customers easily create new dashboards in minutes.
• Easy to customize. The Dashboard can easily be customized to meet the needs of different departments and other groups. Any data set in the Microsoft Application Virtualization database can be presented on the Dashboard in chart, gauge, and table formats.
• Flexible & interactive. Users can easily filter data and create ad hoc custom views. Filters allow users to quickly drill down from a high-level perspective to more specific data.

For download it’s on Connect.

App-V Dashboard Software Requirements:

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