ConfigMgr

Strike Up Another Reason For Using System Center Configuration Manager In Your Cloud

January 10, 2013 // 3 Comments

It is rare that Microsoft releases a bad update through Windows Updates, but one appeared this week, as Hans Vredevoort posted. How do you avoid the problem of automatically pushing out “bad” updates straight after they are released? Well, here’s the “solution” I often encounter [...]

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Configuration Manager, Endpoint Protection, and Windows Intune

September 11, 2012 // 4 Comments

I’ve got 4 blog posts for you to read. As I was commuting yesterday, Mary Jo Foley blogged about a Microsoft announcement on how System Center Service Pack (SP) 1 – Configuration Manager (SCCM/ConfigMgr) and Windows Intune will be changing in the near future. Some highlights: System [...]

Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2012 Beta

July 6, 2012 // 0 Comments

Microsoft has launched the beta for VMST 2012. This tool is used in conjunction with System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) to update offline virtual machine resources from ConfigMgr/WSUS. VMST 2012 helps you more effectively—and safely—manage the workflow of updating you [...]

Patching A Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster, Including Hyper-V

April 27, 2012 // 2 Comments

Cluster Aware Updating (CAU) is a new feature that makes running Windows or Automatic Updates on a Hyper-V cluster easier than ever, as well as any other WS2012 cluster. If you currently have a Windows Server 2008/R2 Hyper-V cluster, then you have a few options for patching it with no VM downtime: [...]

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 Download

April 17, 2012 // 0 Comments

Microsoft has released the new 2012 download for the free task sequence based imaging solution for deploying Windows (and it integrates into System Center 2012 Configuration Manager). Deploy Windows 7, Office 2010 and 365, and Windows Server 2008 R2 with the newly released Microsoft Deployment [...]

Application Catalog Is The Killer Feature In System Center 2012 Configuration Manager

April 2, 2012 // 0 Comments

I deliberately picked the Application Catalog as the focal point of my demo/presentation at the System Center 2012 launch events in Dublin and Belfast because it shows how System Center 2012 recognises that IT services must change to empower the user and embrace IT controlled/secured/audited [...]

Configuration Manager 2012 Error, Past Due – Will Be Retired

March 20, 2012 // 0 Comments

I just had a bit of a head scratcher while building my ConfigMgr 2012 lab. I had created an application to deploy Lync 2010 by policy to a collection of devices. The “mandatory assignment” (this is old terminology for legacy packages/advertisements) was to install the Lync 2010 [...]

My Configuration Manager 2012 Demo Lab on Windows 8 (Client) Hyper-V

March 20, 2012 // 7 Comments

I am one of a number of guest presenters at the Microsoft Ireland System Center 2012 launch events in Dublin (this Thursday) and Belfast (next Tuesday). Each of the 4 guests are presenting different aspects of System Center in the afternoon with 40-45 minute slots for each of us. I have [...]

Managing the iPad In The Enterprise

January 9, 2012 // 1 Comment

All that kerfuffle last year about Microsoft being late to market appears to have been valid. iPads are turning up in the business. And I don’t mean the MD bringing one in, or one hear and another there. I mean BIG numbers of them are turning up. A well publicised example [...]

Books for System Center Configuration Manager 2012

November 2, 2011 // 0 Comments

I was bouncing about on Amazon and noticed some books for System Center Configuration Manager 2012. I’ve done some writing for Sybex so Mastering System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (due in March 2012) is the first one I’ll mention. The blurb: The latest version of System Center [...]