During a recent SCCM deployment I was installing the usual handful of 3rd party tools to add options to the SCCM console (more info here http://www.myitforum.com/myitwiki/SCCMTools.ashx). This was the first time I had seen an issue with them – they seemed to add multiple entries of ‘Client Tools’ to the right-click context menu as shown [...]

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You’ll often need to detail what changes are being made during an Active Directory Schema modification / update / upgrade / extension / whatever you want to call it. The SCCM 2007 schema extension does not change any existing classes or attributes, it creates 4 new classes and 18 associated attributes as follows: attribute cn=mS-SMS-Assignment-Site-Code. [...]

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