Hey All Am I right in assuming that when I upgrade to R3 that the patch needed on the client for the power management to work has to be placed into the agent install path and will not be automatically added to the agent install folder for any future client installs? Paul Keely

It's just a hotfix. Package it, create a query based collection of all machines that don't have it, advertise to that collection and forget about it until you get it added to your image. John Marcum | http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jmarcum |

Yes, that's true. For future clients you can use patch=\\unc\patch.msp in the commandline properties for your client installation.Kent Agerlund | http://scug.dk/ | The Danish community for System Center products

thanks guys, this is what I have done, just gets a bit painful as we had to change that string in about 30 task sequences too and we are now deploying two patches for the string is subject to error Paul Keely

The guys are correct... these may help future travellers... http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2010/08/13/automatically-populate-the-patch-property-for-the-configmgr-2007-client-installation.aspx http://www.myitforum.com/forums/m159695-print.aspx http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907423 Not supported... but may still work :-) http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2009/04/08/automatically-applying-hotfixes-to-the-configuration-manager-2007-client-during-installation.aspx In your configmgr client source location, create the directory, "clientpatch". This would be the same folder where you see ccmsetup.exe and the i386, ia64, and x64 directories. Copy the msp file into the clientpatch directory. Shane