There was a question asked on the forums a couple of days ago about how to verify during the OS Deployment Task Sequence, if the computer failed to join the Active Directory domain or not. I wrote together this little script which will check what domain the computer belongs to and if it isn’t the correct domain…
Author: Jörgen Nilsson
Best of MMS 2013 – Stockholm, Sweden
On the 16th o May Best of MMS 2013 will take place in Stockholm,Sweden(in swedish). 16 sessions and three different tracks will be available!! It is being arranged by Truesec, Microsoft and Lumagate, you can find all the details and registration information here: http://events.truesec.se/Event/Best_of_MMS_2013 I have the great pleasure of delivering two sessions: Managing IOS, WP8,…
Upgrading CM2012 SP1 Admin Console to CU1, Primary Site server as well
As I wrote in the previous blog post the AdminConsole on the Primary site server and CAS if that is used, is not updated automatically during the installation of CU1 for SP1. It is also noted in the CU1 KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2817245 “The PowerShell changes that are referenced in this article are contained in the Administrator…
Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 Cumulative Update 1 is released!
Cumulative Update 1 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 is now available for download!! http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2817245 Don’t forget to the Admin Console even on the SCCM Primary site server as well after installation as well. Amongst the really interesting updates are many new Powershell cmdlets, they are included in the adminconsole.msi file: Add-CMDistributionPoint Import-CMAntiMalwarePolicy…
ConfigMgr 2012 Automatic Client Upgrade grayed out
When Configuring the Automatic Client Upgrade in one site the option to Configure Automatic Client Upgrade was grayed out and not available. The User account that was part of the Full Administrator security role but had the following security scope permissions applied. Changing it to “All instances of the objects that are related to the assigned security role” highlighted above solved the issue and…
Software Update ADR templates in ConfigMgr 2012 SP1
In Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 there are so many nice new features included that will make our lives a little easier. To make it even easier to use Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 for patch management there are now two built-in Software Update Automatic Deployment Rules(ADR) templates built-in. One template for Endpoint Definition Updates and one for Patch…
New Task Sequence Variable PostAction in ConfigMgr 2012 SP1
There are so many new cool features in Configuration Manager 2012 Service Pack 1. I have had the intention of doing a blog post series on news in Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 for many months now, but now I will finally start with it. I will not write about the big new features like…
System Center 2012 SP1-Våren på Technet
This spring Technet Sweden invites to a online seminars every Thursday starting at the 28 of February. I have the great honor of delivering two sessions, one on all the news i System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 and one session about managing devices IOS, Windows RT, Windows Phone8 using ConfigMgr 2012 sp1 + Intune….