In SC 2012 Configuration Manager, Site to Site communication will use SQL Service Broker feature to replicate data between site databases instead of file based replication in previous Configuration Manager versions. With SQL replication, the performance and reliability will be improved. However, it...

I’d like to start this series to share some trouble shoot cases study for System Center Update Publisher 2011. The first one is about the following scenarios: One of our partner has created a catalog. They used System Center Update Publisher 2011 to publish this catalog into ConfigrMgr 2007...

Software Metering is a feature in Configuration Manager that allows you to monitor and collect software usage data from Configuration Manager 2007 clients. Check the following technet document for more about Software Metering: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb694169.aspx . In this article...

SMSContext is a SWbemNamedValueSet ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa393732(VS.85).aspx ). SWbemNamedValueSet are used principally to send more information to providers when submitting certain calls to WMI. In most cases, you don’t need to set SMSContext when making WMI calls. But providing...