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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...

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...

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...

*** 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...

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

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...

Who said that PC’s are dead. I recently bought the parts to make a custom machine, and today I finally built it. It’s destined to act as a Hyper-V 3.0 server, so that I can run a large bunch of Virtual Machines. Here’s the spec’s: Asus Rampage IV Extreme Intel X79...

I’ll be attending this one, I see it is full now. If you’re attending and want to say hi just come on up and introduce yourself. Manage consumer devices on a corporate network Date: Tuesday, 22 May 2012 Topic: Cloud User: IT Pro Location: 200 Aldersgate, St. Paul's, London, EC1A 4HD, UK http://uktechdays...

Check out the Microsoft System Center keynote (Brad Anderson and Satya Nadella), big reveals in there! Universal installer ... Watch the video ... Still trying to work out what the 'vision' is? Read on ... http://www.informationweek.com/news/cloud-computing/infrastructure/232400396 http...

Worth checking out David Allens blog posting about the available System Center team blogs ... Check out his (maintained) list here: http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb/archive/2011/01/06/system-center-ms-blogs.aspx Nice going David!

I thought i'd write up a quicky blog post on using the ConfigMgr Task Sequence to deploy Software Packages, and reveal select parts of the functionality available to you to accomplish the task. Open up your ConfigMgr console, navigate to the Operating System Deployment node and right click "Task...

I thought I’d check out the ConfigMgr 2007 Console MMC; see how it goes on, where its settings reside and whether I can bring anything new to the current knowledge base. Unfortunately, I don’t bring anything new to the table; instead I’m just consolidating knowledge in to one place...

This issue won't impact many of you, and to induce the following behaviour you really need to go toggle some values most SMS Admins leave well alone. Hence why this one hasn't been spotted in the wild (there is a technet forum thread on this ...). Have you noticed in your environment that...

... More a reference for me really, List of Log Files in Configuration Manager 2007 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb892800.aspx

Had an interesting problem yesterday, ConfigMgr RTM upgrade to SP1 two thirds of the way through induced a BSOD. Hard to troubleshoot, system reboots and all you're left with is a minidump (depending on your OS configuration for debugging) and a partially completed ConfigMgrSetup log file. ...

Seen an interesting issue where the CCMSETUP parameters incorrectly specify MP as SMSMP, resulting in failure and exotic errors appearing in the CLIENT.MSI and CCMSETUP logs: Just need to fire up CLIENT.MSI in SMSTRACE, find Return value 3 and you'll possibly see the following: WARNING: The...

Article up on The Register about VMWare http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/23/vmware_q2_2008_earnings/ Cut through all the fancy figures, and diatribe and you get to what I think is the tucked away jewel in this story (for VMWare) ... ESXi (the light-weight version) will be free at the next release...

Isn't it funny, as that saying goes, you wait around for a bus and three come along at once. Well I've not been waiting for a bus, instead I've been waiting around for some exceptional ConfigMgr projects to get stuck in too. I'm taken care of now, but wonder if there are any UK ConfigMgr...

I just cannot believe it was only last Tuesday that we had the WMUG meeting take place. The days since just seem to have slide by, with hardly a chance to come up for air and jump on to the WMUG site. A big thank you to all that attended. A good time was had by all it seems, with great feedback on...

Doh, had to correct a URL in my previous post The Configuration Manager 2007 SDK link on http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/default.mspx is still pointing at an invalid address ... pinged customer services to let them know, but doubt i'm the first ;-)