Author: Jörgen Nilsson

The Keynotes and all the sessions from TechEd Europe 2012 is starting to come online. You can download or streams the session recordings and keynotes at Channel 9. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Europe/2012 Enjoy! I will!

The SDK for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager 2o12 is now available for download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29559 This was posted by Dave Randall in the Technet Forums about the SDK release here: Announcing the release of the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SDK The Microsoft System Center team is announcing the release and general availability of the…

As Configuration Manager relies heavily on a working WMI on both clients and servers, a working WMI is really crucial for all activities performed. The following post was just updated and I strongly recommend that you read it. http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2011/08/05/suggested-hotfixes-for-wmi-related-issue-on-windows-platforms.aspx Here is the recommended updated for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 from that post. Hotfix…

System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 CTP2 available for download! Today System Center Service Pack 1 CTP2 was made available for public download. Note that this release is for testing purposes only. The biggest news are support for Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012. Configuration Manager 2012 also supports Linux/Unix and MAC…

This Configuration Manager 2007 report will display a Operating System count per collection, including Service Pack level as displayed below. It is very useful to get an overview of how many computers with a specific OS and Service Pack there is in the environment. When implementing it, create a prompt for the report called “varcollection” which is…

Some of the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager session from presented at TechEd Orlando is now available online at TechEd online. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012 Here are the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Sessions that are available already, including the one where SP1 was announced! Sessions: Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Overview (including SP1 info) http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/MGT309 Patch and Settings Management…

Today at Teched Orlando Microsoft announced some features in the upcoming Service Pack 1 for Configuration Manager 2012. One of the long awaited news are support for MAC OS X, Windows 8 and Linux/Unix. For more information see the blog post from Kent Agerlund at Coretech.dk here: http://blog.coretech.dk/kea/configmgr-2012-sp1-announced-teched-2012/ Great news!!

An Update for Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 is available. The update replaces/includes the hotfix we are used to installing to be able to publish updates using System Center Updates Publisher when you have .NET framework 4.0 installed. The update includes an update for the Windows Update Client agent that will be installed…