Hi All

The long awaited configmgr toolkit has been released and is available for download here.

It offers seven key tools outlined below:

• Client Spy - A GUI tool enabling you to understand the settings, configurations and actions performed on a specific client. This is performed by interrogating the numerous WMI namespacess, classes and instances used by the SCCM Client.
• Policy Spy - A GUI tool enabling to trace, review and understand the policy applying to SCCM clients.
• Security Configuration Wizard Template for ConfigMgr 2007 - A Windows Server 2003 SP1 and 2 Attack surface reduction tool for SCCM.
• Desired Configuration Management Model Verification tool - used to validate and test CIs and baselines authored outside of the ConfigMgr Console.
• Desired Configuration Management Digest Conversion Tool - Used by content Admins converting from the SMS 2003 Feature Pack to SCCM.
• Desired Configuration Management Substitution Variables - A tool used for authoring CIs that use chained settings and object discovery.

This means you still need SMS 2003 Toolkit 2 for Trace32 and other key tools. SMS 2003 Toolkit 2 is available here.

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AdminStudio Configuration Managed Edition

“AdminStudio Configuration Manager Edition provides Configuration Manager 2007 customers with an easy way to prepare reliable, customized Windows Installer packages for distribution via Configuration Manager. and is the result of collaboration between Macrovision and the Microsoft System Center team. AdminStudio Configuration Manager Edition provides IT professionals with the ability to quickly convert legacy applications to the industry-standard Windows Installer (MSI) format, customize those MSI packages to meet corporate standards, and release them to Configuration Manager for successful distribution.”

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