Author: Jörgen Nilsson

At the Microsoft World Partner conference today in Toronto, Microsoft Announced that Windows 8 will go RTM in August: “confirmed that Windows 8 is on track to Release to Manufacturing (RTM) the first week of August. For enterprise customers with Software Assurance benefits, they will have full access to Windows 8 bits as early as…

As a follow up to the post I wrote on how to generate a randomized local admin password and save it in SQL https://ccmexec.com/2012/06/generating-a-random-password-during-osd-and-save-it-in-sql/ , I will now describe a simple .HTA to retrieve the local admin password for a computer using a simple .hta. The .HTA has many graphical improvement potential but it works. It will use the…

In many scenarios it could to be a great idea to be able to set a randomized password for the local administrator account or create a new user account with local administrative permissions and disable the built-in account. The script can easily be modified to generate a password for another user-name than the local administrator….

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…