I wrote a post a year ago or more about how to install the SCCM 2007 Admin Console including R2, this is something I use a lot in my projects as it is more and more to install when installing the Admin Console. In the example below I install the Admin Console, the required hotfix(kb977384)…
Author: Jörgen Nilsson
SCCM 2007 Report: Windows 7 computers without SP1
Hi, Answered a question on Technet forum this morning and about a report to list all Windows 7 computers without Service Pack 1 installed. I modified it slightly for this post to include the possibility to filter on a specific collectionID. When creating the report create a prompt in the report called varcollection Report Query: Select…
Installing the SCCM client using vbscript
In some scenarios you need to install the SCCM client using another Software Distribution tool than Configuration Manager, yes I know it sounds strange 😉 If you have tried this you know that the Ccmsetup.exe installs a service and the exits in the user context so that control is returned to the vbscript, cmd file…
Forefront Endpoint protection and Locally Removed
In Forefront Endpoint protection 2010 there is no possibility to password protect the uninstallation of the FEP client. This makes it possible for instance for local admins to remove the FEP Client. I started testing to advertise the FEP client to the “Locally Removed” collection where the client will end up if the FEP client…
SCCM Summit 2012!
I have great honor to be doing two sessions at the SCCM Summit 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden 17-18/1 – 2012. http://www.cornerstone.se/sv/Event/sccm2012/ SCCM Summit 2012 will be 1 1/2 day focusing on all the great new features in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager(in Swedish). The sessions I will deliver is: Application Management in two parts(double session),…
New version of the FEP Definition Update Automation Tool released
A new version of the FEP Definition Update Automation Tool is released. It contains a great new feature, that the Software Update Package containing the FEP definitions isn’t updated if there are no new Definition Updates. With the old version the DP’s were always updated, so this will save replication traffic to remote locations. Great…
Configuration Manager 2012 – Release Candidate is here!
The release candidate is now available! Release candidate = new product name, it is now “System Center 2012 Configuration Manager“! There are a lot of new features in the Release candidate so be sure to check it out! http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27841 Some of the new features: “In the Release Candidate, we’ve introduced some additional and enhanced capabilities, including:…
Best-of-MMS 2011 – Sweden
On the 25-26 of October the Best-of-MMS 2011 event took place in Stockholm Sweden. I had the great honour of doing a 5 minute demo on Configuration Manager 2012 in the keynote. It was great fun! I also delivered two sessions: “Microsoft Bitlocker Administration and Monitoring Tool” “Configuration Manager 2012 + Forefront Endpoint protection 2012…