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When you’re going to deploy a new package with SCCM 2007, there are a few steps you need to follow. The easiest way to deploy a package is to follow the next steps: [Y] 1.) Collection 2.) Package 3.) Program 4.) Distribution Point 5.) Advertisement Before we are going to deploy Office 2007, we’ve to create a MSP file for customize the Office 2007 installation. You can start the Office Customization Tool using the following command: Run ---> setup.exe /admin. Save the file in the updates folder on your Office 2007 source directory Step 1, creating a collection: 1.) Create a new collection, to specify the computers where Office must be installed. 2.) Navigate to System Center Configuration Manager, Site Database, Computer Management, New Collection 3.) Give your new collection a name, for example “Office 2007 Enterprise” 4.) On the Membership Rules dialog box, Create a collection Packages can only be distributed to members of a collection. A collection can contain multiple computers, a single computer, a single user and members of a security group. Configuration Manager 2007 operates with two different types of collections. · Direct membership based. ü Click the computer icon, which opens the Create Direct Membership Rule Wizard. Click Next ü On the Search for Resources dialog box, click the Resource class drop-down menu and select System Resource. Then, click the Attribute name drop-down menu and select Name. In the Value field enter %, and then click Next ü On the Search for Resources dialog box, click the Resource class drop-down menu and select System Resource. Then, click the Attribute name drop-down menu and select Name. In the Value field enter %, and then click Next ü On the Collection Limiting dialog box, click the Browse button, select All Windows Workstation or Professional Systems, and then click Next ü Select the computer(s) you want to deploy Office 2007 and click Next.,, Finish · Query Based collections are use full when distributing software to a larger group of resources based on specific criteria’s Example, all workstations in Copenhagen or computers belonging to an Active Directory security group. Direct membership collections are use full when distributing software to a narrow group of resources e.g. 5 test pc’s. Step 2, creating a package: 1.) Navigate to System Center Configuration Manager, Site Database, Computer Management, Software Distribution, Package, New Package 2.) On the General dialog box of the New Package Wizard, enter the Name, Version, Manufacturer, and Language. For example, Office, 2007, Microsoft, English (US) 3.) On the Data Source dialog box, select This package contains source files. Click the Set button, and then enter the path for the location of the source files in the Source directory field. For example E:\Software\Office 2007\, which contains a copy of the 2007 Office Enterprise installation CD. 4.) Click OK, and then continue to click Next and accept the default settings on all of the following dialog boxes: Data Access, Distribution Settings, Reporting, and Security. On the Wizard Completed dialog box. Step 3, creating a Program: 1.) Navigate to System Center Configuration Manager, Site Database, Computer Management, Software Distribution, Packages, Office 2007, Programs, New, Program 2.) Give the new program a Name 3.) On the Command-line box, type in setup.exe 4.) On the Environment dialog box, click the Program can run drop-down box and select Whether or not a user is logged on. This will enable Run with administrative rights for the Run mode. Leave the default for Drive mode to Runs with UNC name, and then click Next (Because the customization file, CustomOffice.MSP, was placed in the \Updates folder, a command line option is not needed to reference its location) 5.) On the Advanced dialog box, select the check box for Suppress program notifications, and then click Next Step 4, Copy to Distibution points: 1.) Navigate to System Center Configuration Manager, Site Database, Computer Management, Software Distribution, Packages, Office 2007, Distribution points 2.) Manage Distribution Points 3.) Select “Copy the package to new distribution points” 4.) Select the distribution points 5.) Click finish and wait a copple of minutes 6.) Check the status changing from Install Pending to Installed Step 5, creating the advertisement 1.) Navigate to System Center Configuration Manager, Site Database, Computer Management, Software Distribution, Advertisements 2.) New Advertisement 3.) Give the advertisement a Name 4.) Select the package, Program and Collection 5.) Click finish and wait a copple of minutes 6.) On the client wait for the next Machine Policy Retrievel & Evaluation Cycle After the setup is finished, Office 2007 is deployed to your client(s) and is ready to use!

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The first session I attended was about designing virtualization infrastructure; it was a very interesting session and I learned a lot from it. Here is a photo of the session.

The second session was named “Operation Manager R2” and I really like the new features of the R2 of Operations Manager 2007, we now support monitoring UNIX\Linux servers, they even have their own node on the console, and the very brilliant thing is that the discovery wizard has an option that says “discover UNIX\Linux servers” and asks you then about the IP addresses range where those servers are located. Great Session. (by the way it was an instructor-led lab)

The third one was about “Operations Manager 2007 Advanced Concepts” and it was really good.

The fourth one – the one that I like the most- was Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. I learned a lot in this session, I happen to know new facts about R2 that are really amazing, for instance we have a live migration now for VMs across hosts with zero down time (under one second as I knew (700 milliseconds)).

In this session I also understood that Microsoft has released a new Hyper-V server that’s named Microsoft Server 2008 Hyper-V. and notice that there is no ‘Windows’ word in the name of the product, hence it needs to licenses further more it is a free product! This product only supports the Hyper-V role of Server 2008, so for instance you cannot install DHCP, IIS or any other server roles. It also has no GUI, so you might want to manage it remotely using terminal services or SCVMM. I truly enjoyed this session and I would share as much as I can with you hopefully.

and here is a picture of me with the Microsoft Virtualization team, (the guys who wrote Hyper-V)!! I had the chance to chat a lot with them, they are amazing, so down to earth and they make you feel very comfortable talking to them and raising notes and deep technical details

Then I went to the Configuration Manager 2007 MVPs gathering which was thrown by Wally Mead, I truly had the pleasure of meeting some of my fellow MVPs.

and here is a photo of the MVP party entrance

It was a very nice reception.

Thanks all

Posted 04-29-2009 11:05 PM by Asem Alhourani

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mEktifan wrote re: MMS 2009 - Day Two Report

on 04-30-2009 1:16 AM

Good Luck

Essam Hamdan wrote re: MMS 2009 - Day Two Report

on 05-02-2009 8:20 PM

Good stuff!!

So are the rest of the SCCM MVPs as cool as our community lead :p

Anyway...be careful with Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008...you need to license all VMs you install on it...

As for Windows Server 2008 you get some freebies:

Windows Server 2008 Standard - you get one free VM (Standard Edition)

Winodws Server 2008 Enterprise - you get four free VMs (Std or Ent Editions)

Windows Server 2008 Datacenter - you get ALL free VMs (Std, Ent or DC)

Thank you once again for the awesome report...feels like I was there :)

Essam

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