Author: Jörgen Nilsson

This is a topic that is discussed in many forums and almost with every customer I meet, how can we do PXE boot on out UEFI devices. This is new technology to many of us and driven by the new Windows 8 tablet’s like the HP Elitepad 900 and the Dell Latitude 10. Configuration Manager…

In Configuration Manager 2012 you can have multiple SMS Providers to achieve a higher availability and load balancing. This is a really great new feature! I ran into this little challenge yesterday, when we moved the SQL database to a SQL Cluster and installed a second SMS Provider in the site to achieve high availability. We installed the…

On Monday 8 of April 2013 the keynote of MMS 2013 was held in the Mandalay Bay Event Center. It’s main focus was the cloud as the name “Cloud Optimize Your Business with Microsoft Management Solutions”. The keynote was divided into to parts basically, first part about private/public cloud and a lot of comparison with “The…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…