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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

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...

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...

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...

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...

*** 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

Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 has been released. You can fetch the downloads from here ( KB2706783 ) A stack of fixes, best to visit the link the full descriptions. Also check out Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft System Center 2012 here ( 2686249 ) There is also a preview SP1 for System Center...

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...

An announcement on ConfigMgr supported configurations changes for May 2011 over here What's new? App-V 4.6 SP1 is now supported, giving us support for Win7 and Win2008R2. I know a lot of you have been waiting for this and here we finally are :-) App-V 4.6 SP1 CLI is also available here

Check out the improvements in the App-V 4.6 SP1 Sequencer CLI ! A CLI, now that brings back fond memories ... The Command Line Sequencer, or CLI, has been improved with the App-V 4.6 SP1 release of the Sequencer. The Sequencer now has the ability to define Feature Block 1, create Package Accelerators...

Configuration Manager 2007 RTM\SP1 has a wee bit of an issue dealing with GMT dates that are offset by DST. Essentially if you are in a DST timezone then the DST offset is not factored correctly, resulting in Wake On Lan (WOL) packets arriving at the destination machines one hour earlier than intended...