ConfigMgr Backup in combination with WSUS

I noticed that the scheduled backup of ConfigMgr can conflict with the installation of WSUS. When you have WSUS 3.0 SP1 installed on the same machine as your ConfigMgr Site you can, at random occassions, get problems with your WSUS installation. This is what happens: During the execution of the ConfigMgr Backup it does some kind of a healthcheck. When it then notices that the SUP/WSUS is not responding good it will try to do an repair action of WSUS. At this point the problem starts, bacause the installer of WSUS 3.0 SP1 doesn’t have a repair function, so WSUS will get uninstalled… After this has happened you can get errors like “Sync failed: WSUS server not configured. Source: CWSyncMgr::DoSync SMS_WSUS_SYNC_MANAGER” in the ConfigMgr Site Status. …

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App-V future ready???

Let’s start my first post about App-V being future ready (or not). When I was trying to deploy an App-V Sequence on a Windows 7 Client (with App-V Client 4.5 CU1) the application didn’t seem to work… At first I thouhgt it was just me, so I recreated everything from scratch, but still no luck. The next step was to search on Google and here I found a very helpfull link: http://www.softgridblog.com/?p=126. The solution is this: During the proces of making a sequence with the App-V Sequencer you get to tab Deployment. In this tab you can specify the Operating System (OS) on which this sequence can run. Before the App-V 4.5 CU1 version you didn’t have the option to select Windows 7. This means that …

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