Author: Jörgen Nilsson

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…

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…

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….

I have written different scripts before to install all the prereqs needed for Configuration Manager in different versions. There are great hydration kits out there which can be used to install a Configuration Manager 2012 environment, but if you only want to install all pre-reqs needed by System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1  on Windows…

There are some interesting reading in the supported configurations for WSUS in Server 2012 which is useful to know when you design your Configuration Manager 2012 environment with a Software Update role. I normally use the same SQL for WSUS as I use for Configuration Manager 2012 in many designs at customers. However there are…

The binaries are updated for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1, you should download them again before installing, then you will not have to install the hotfix which solves an issue with client installation. More information: http://blogs.technet.com/b/gladiatormsft/archive/2013/01/26/you-may-need-to-re-download-configuration-manager-2012-and-endpoint-protection-2012-sp1-binaries.aspx

Service Pack 1 has been out there for a while with a lot of great new features! There are some things to think about when upgrading and existing Configuration Manager 2012 environment.I have tried to collect useful information here to make it easier for you to upgrade to Service Pack 1. 1. Read the “Planning…

There was a question on Technet forum a while ago, requesting a script to configure the “Automatically install or uninstall required software and restart the computer only outside of the specified business hours”. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmanagerapps/thread/08d2f8e9-feaf-4143-af56-7e97ef20267c/ Torsten Meringer, ConfigMgr MVP wrote a blog post and a script a while back on how to modify the Business Hours…