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Kent’s a really high quality MVP and excellent trainer, and he’s at TechEd America in New Orleans blogging what he hears, really worth checking out his blog Some info on ConfigMgr 2012 R2 which we’ve not been allowed to talk about due to NDA, Kent’s taking notes as what is mentioned at TechEd is public...

I wrote a little article for TechNet UK as a guest post where I go over the new Email Notifications mechanism in ConfigMgr 2012 SP1. Check it out here

Lots of chatter out there on the web on this, Microsoft has pulled a patch, KB2823324, that is reportedly causing Windows OS’s not to boot properly or for application to not function correctly. If you haven’t got this out into production yet, think it’d be a sensible precaution to remove it from any...

Best to download the docs and review offline now, TechNet (not the ConfigMgr team) have ripped out Classic view which helped us fully expand all the collapsible nodes to enable CTRL-F for searching, now you’ll have to expand the appropriate node out and read\search from there which is going to be a PITA...

We had to reschedule our event for SolarWinds due to technical reasons but it is now back on! Still a virtual meeting, but now set for the 13th of Feb 2013 at 7PM UK time, check out the Event page for more information. Looks to be a very interesting presentation, don’t miss it! http://wmug.co.uk/hubs...

Over on the ConfigMgr team blog they made an announcement that ConfigMgr 2007 and ConfigMgr 2012 now support SQL SP1 support . There Is another reference in the announcement that the Endpoint Protection client will also support SQL 2012 SP1 and Operations Manager 2012 SP1. You’ll see the documentation...

Kenny put together a nice method for fixing apps that won’t deploy via OSD post-RTM to SP1 upgrade. The script pokes the comment field which induces a ContentID which then causes the apps to redistribute to the DP’s and cleans up the issue. Nice work Kenny! http://scug.be/sccm/2013/01/27/configmgr-2012...

Our first service pack for ConfigMgr is now fully available! Check out these MS announcement links Delivering Unified Device Management with Windows Intune and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Microsoft Advances the Cloud OS With New Management Solutions Download Microsoft System Center Private...

The first day of the year at roughly the same time of the day I get a very exciting email. It’s not guaranteed, this is an invite-only renewed award so when it does arrive it makes my day: 2012 was a notable year indeed, so much happened, System Centre Configuration Manager 2012 arrived, we got two updates...

WMUG is holding another virtual event, on the 21st of November at 7PM GMT, this time a presentation from Simon Skinner ( nubigenus ) showing us Silect Software’s ConfigWise and how to get far more from your reporting on the Configuration Manager product. Click here to find out more information...

Recently I had a Client who wanted to control the naming of their devices during the build cycle in OSD during New, Replacement and Upgrades scenarios, they also wanted to specify a User Device Affinity for some but not all devices. The mechanism had to leverage an initiative that was physically asset...

It’s becoming a regular annual feature now, and this year is no exception with Wally Mead joining WMUG for the day on the 10th of November 2012! We’re back in Reading for this event, at the Microsoft UK TVP Campus. We have the Chicago room and can seat a 100. Really stoked about this one, Service Pack...

Check out this pretty cool script to automate some of the Import\Export feature we have in ConfigMgr 2012. Jon uses Task Sequences, you export the metadata only including dependencies, the script manipulates the resulting payload in readiness to be imported into another Site server by changing the...

Kaido Järvemets another ConfigMgr MVP put together a really cool tool to create AD groups and ConfigMgr Collections , hosted on the ConfigMgr PowerShell SDK website Loving the stuff this guys producing using PowerShell.

ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 brings a bunch load of new features for us to check out, one of which, and the subject of this quick guide provides functionality in the Console to add Optional Components to a WINPE Boot Image. To achieve this previously we had to do a bit of hand crafting (manual steps) using DISM...

Really good antivirus file extensions exclusion list from fellow MVP Peter Daalmans . This is really helpful thanks Peter!

Welcome to my guide for installing the ConfigMgr 2012 Client onto RedHat 6 Enterprise Linux ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 Beta brings cross-platform support, and here I'll show you how to setup RedHat and then install the ConfigMgr Client There have been third-party extensions to achieve this before...

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...

I wrote here about installing the first update bundle for ConfigMgr called System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Cumulative Update 1 , and skipped over deploying using Software Updates, well here’s how to get the CAB file the cumulative update 1 creates when you install it, and deploy to your Clients...

Literally two days ago I wrote a quick blog post about the ConfigMgr 2012 cumulative update servicing model , but didn’t have an update\cumulative bundle to install so pretty much just blogged what I took from the documentation, well what do you know, a day later the first cumulative update bundle...

Must be the summer of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, few days ago the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Configuration Pack was released. The pack checks the Software Update Point and Management Point roles, Site Servers and WSUS Configuration settings. The Pack will only return compliance...

Kaido Järvemets, MVP in ConfigMgr, has just brought up his new Powershell SDK website CM12SDK.NET dedicated to using the PowerShell ConfigMgr 2012 SDK. Worth the visit for the most excellent library of PowerShell applets Kaido has produced. This site will be huge, I see it becoming the No1 portal...

Took me a bit of time, but we just got the first of three videos taken at the recent WMUG November 4th 2011 event presented by Wally Mead. This, the first of three videos, is a technical overview of the ConfigMgr 2012 product itself. WMUG-Nov4-2011-WallyMead - Technical Overview from Rob on...

I had to recover a ConfigMgr Primary site today where IIS seemed completely b0rked. The engineer had changed IIS 7's applicationhost.config by hand in the RequestFiltering section, no big deal there, but for some reason all web services for ConfigMgr died after they saved the file. On the surface...

Microsoft are keen to get feedback on the OOB feature of ConfigMgr 2007 / 2012, which utilises Intel vPro , with a online questionnare open to everyone You'll get a chance to feed back all your comments to the Product Group that support this function of the product. This is as close as it gets...