Learn to deploy Windows 7 using MDT2010/ SCCM07 SP2

Are you looking for a good learning  resource on Windows 7 deployment using MDT2010 or SCCM2007SP2?  Johan Arwidmark has released a free CD containing very good step-by-step guides and
videos.You can download the CD from http://www.deploymentcd.com/  by doing simple registration.
Hope this help you guys!!

Windows XP SP3 installation error

Many times I come across issues in installing XP SP3 on PCs and laptops. Here are the two articles covering most of erros with the corrective actions:

http://www.reviewsaurus.com/tips-tricks/windows-xp-sp3-service-pack-3-install-problems/

and

http://news.softpedia.com/news/9-Critical-Errors-that-Will-Prevent-the-Installation-of-XP-SP3-RTM-Build-5512-85266.shtml


Apart from above scenarios, I have noticed that "automatic Updates" and
"Security Center " services should be running at the time of installation of the service pack.

I hope this helps.

How to use USMT 4 hardlinking in a Configuration Manager 2007 Task Sequence

Now we can do hard link migrations using USMT 4 with  ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 in following migration scenarios:

• Windows XP --> Windows Vista
• Windows XP --> Windows 7
• Windows Vista --> Windows Vista
• Windows Vista --> Windows 7
• Windows 7 --> Windows 7 

 (USMT 4 is not supported for Windows XP --> Windows XP scenarios.)

A details description with step by step guide on hard link and USMT 4 setup with the Config Mgr 2007 SP2 task sequence is available here .

Using USMT3.0 in SCCM2007

A step-by-step guide with screen shots::
http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/918-how-can-i-use-usmt-3-0-1-in-sccm-2007-sp1/

How Configuration Manager Backup Uses the Volume Shadow Copy Service

In this article Jeff Gilbert from Microsoft has provided very useful information about Volume Shadow Copy feature of Windows Server 2003 and its uses in backing up ConfigMgr database.
Here is the link of the article.

WARNING:Exceeded max server round trips: 0x80244010

Issue: New Windows Update clients fail to install/sync the software updates from WSUS server WindowsUpdate.log file gives many errors refering error code 0x80244010. Task sequence step to install Software Updates during OSD, in ConfigMgr2007, will also fail due to that error.

Resolution:Read this blog post from Microsoft WSUS support team.

More updates on WSUS can be found here: http://blogs.technet.com/sus/default.aspx

EEHndlr WARNING: Failed to populate ServiceStartup entries in Cache: error 0x80070002

We see an error "EEHndlr WARNING: Failed to populate ServiceStartup entries in Cache: error 0x80070002" in "WindowsUpdate.log file on a Windows 2003 SP2 x64 server.

Read this Technet Blog for the resolution.