15.3. Troubleshooting Configuration Manager Deployment

If you experience issues deploying Configuration Manager 2007, you should first look into the following areas to see whether the issue is related to permissions, disk space, network connectivity, or timing.

Permissions are extremely important to Configuration Manager deployment. If Configuration Manager does not have appropriate rights to make the connection, then the operation will fail. Admins using the Configuration Manager console will need the appropriate permissions for WMI, for DCOM, for NTFS, and, lastly, within Configuration Manager itself.

Disk space is used to store the site database, packages, software updates, inventory, and collected files; all of this can use up a lot of disk ...

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