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I’m running a session on Software Updates Management on the 23rd of May between 19:30 to 20:30 using LiveMeeting. This is an online event that does not require an invitation, just turn up on the scheduled date and time. Here’s the link the Events page on the Windows Management User Group website for...

*** UPDATED *** Here's a guide for installing ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 Beta onto Windows 2012 with SQL 2012 RTM CU 3 Please keep in mind that this guide is suited for the lab only, do not use SP1 Beta in production. There is no upgrade path from SP1 Beta to SP1 RTM We can now for the first time join together...

Now the 2012 family all work together, well, in the lab until SP1 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is released Server 2012 SQL 2012 Customer Update 3 ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 Beta Cross Platform Client Some rough shots of SUSE Enterprise Linux 11 SP 2 showing up in the CM12 SP1 Beta console The...

You can down it here And read about it here For the ConfigMgr changes, and there are a lot of them, read here One key milestone for the ConfigMgr product is cross platform support: Clients are now supported on Mac computers, and on Linux and UNIX servers

With the release of cumulative updates for ConfigMgr 2012, there’s a new and easy way to manage ConfigMgr Client patches (not OS or other product patches) across the Client estate Now we can use the cumulative update released regularly, along with the Software Updates feature to achieve high...

Anoop Nair put together a pretty big list of links for ConfigMgr 2012 info , very helpful for the community Anoop nice one! http://anoopcnair.com/2011/08/10/configmgr-sccm-2012-starter-kit-very-useful-links/

Looks like the cat is truly out of the bag! ConfigMgr 2012 Service Pack 1 is hot on the heals of the ConfigMgr 2012 RTM release. Incredible turn around times. This SP1 is unique, its not there purely to fix things up, its there to fix a few things but to shove a whole lot of love into the product...

Following on from my previous article on System Center 2012 Configuration Manager where I talked about the pro’s and con’s of having a Central Administration Site, we will implement the CAS to get the full spread of functionality from ConfigMgr during the walk-through ... You can read...

Following on from my previous article on System Center 2012 Configuration Manager where I talked about setting up a good test last, we can now move on to whether we need a CAS for the company Configuration Manager is being installed into. You can read this and more fantastic articles from Rob here

This guide kicks off my tour of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, and we begin with the foundation of your testing platform, the lab hardware. You can read this and more fantastic articles from Rob here

It's been RTM for a while, but MMS needed to happen before I could call it out. So ... System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is now RTM !!! And yep, that is how it is called now, SC2012CM and not ConfigMgr 2012 :-<> Check out the product here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server...

Handy list of permissions for each security object Download here (Excel) Secret Sauce: select sot.ObjectTypeName, oo.OperationName from dbo.RBAC_SecuredObjectTypes as sot inner join dbo.RBAC_ObjectOperations as oo on sot.ObjectTypeID = oo.ObjectTypeID group by sot.ObjectTypeName, oo.OperationName

Worth checking out, the new ConfigMgr 2012 console has a stack of new features, entirely rewritten, its a lot faster and far more usable than the ConfigMgr 2007 console ... Top 10 Admin Console Improvements in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager

Bechir Gharbi another MVP in ConfigMgr brought this up, two MOC’s for ConfigMgr 2012, both to be available first half of this year according to the links:   Course 10747A Administering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Published: April 26, 2012(In development)   Course 10748A Deploying...

Welcome to my System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Release Candidate 1 installation guide If you work your way through this guide, you'll have ConfigMgr 2012 up and running in your lab within a few hours and can mess around with the new release candidate But first, you will need to...

WMUG are very much delighted to invite you to an entire day of ConfigMgr, presented by none other than Senior Program Manager Wally Mead. The day is hosted at the Microsoft Campus in Reading on the 4th of November, and Wally will be covering ConfigMgr 2012 with his usual gusto, and unique way of answering...

This is a brief and silent 6 minute video showing how to utilise Role Based Administration to create a new user with a custom security role and scope. The idea is to highlight how easy it is to accomplish the task using ConfigMgr 2012. ConfigMgr 2012 - Beta 2 - Build 7561 - Creating a low rights...

That Johan Arwidmark bloke made YAHK , Yet Another Hydration Kit for ConfigMgr 2012 Beta 2. It'll build out a ConfigMgr lab environment consisting of two DC's and one Primary, using Powershell and a few bits and pieces such as W2K8R2, SQL2008. It's very handy for rebuilds of a lab environment...

The SMSDOCS team have released the May 2011 update to the ConfigMgr 2007 Documentation Library And yes, you didn't read that wrong, the ConfigMgr 2012 documentation Library is up and browsable. Lots has been added, worth reading the release notes on the announcement here

Excellent run through the Client Health feature of ConfigMgr 2012 by Abraham Wang at MS. http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2011/05/03/client-health-in-configuration-manager-2012-beta-2.aspx I saw this feature in action at the MVP Summit 2011, and after grilling the feature owner...

Catching up with myself now I've recovered from the "Epic Flu" :-) Folks already blogged about this one, but its worth repeating just for what this slick tool is going to do for us when migrations from CM07 to CM12 begin ... The Configuration Manager P2V Migration Toolkit was designed...

Took me a while, but I managed to create three videos with runtimes of around 1hr 30min+ each from the days video taken at the WMUG November 1st 2010 meeting in London, England in which Wally Mead, Senior Program Manager, gave us a run through of ConfigMgr 2007 R3 and two great sessions on ConfigMgr...