When installing the required hotfix for Configuration Manager 2007 R3 you are probably faced with the challenge that you need to install more the one SCCM client hotfix. Installing them in the normal way would require three packages, programs and advertisements which need to be installed. I wrote a script which will install all hotfixes placed…
Author: Jörgen Nilsson
SCCM 2007 Support for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 2008 r2 sp1
The support statement for Configuration Manager 2007 is released that it now supports Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 2008 r2 SP1. The following software update is required to add Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to the Supported Platforms list: KB 2489044 – Update rollup for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 to…
70-243 & 70-242 – Call to Action!
Call to Action! Microsoft needs our feedback on the upcoming 70-243 & 70-242 certification exams that will cover System Center Configuration Manager 2012 and System Center Operations Manager 2012. Wouldn’t it be great with two tests per product? one for day-to-day admins and one for IT-Pros? Tell Microsoft your opinion using this 5 question survey…
MMS 2011 – Wednesday Keynote
During today’s keynote the announcement we all were waiting for was made – System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 available for download now! Beta 2 is also feature-complete which means that all features which will ship in the finished product are now in there. I can’t wait to start playing with it. I encourage…
SCCM 2012 will support management of Unix/Linux!
SCCM 2012 will support managing Unix/Linux During the “Configuration Manager – State of the union” breakout session which as always is a highlight at MMS, a Super-secret announcement was made that it is now official that Configuration Manager 2012 will support managing Unix/Linux. The focus is to manage the server side of Unix/Linux not the…
MMS 2011 – Tuesday Keynote
Today I had the great opportunity to attend the MMS 2011 Keynote delivered by Brad Anderson, let me tell you it was great! Thanks Brad for a great keynote! The clear message is that the cloud is all about the applications, quote: “It’s all about the apps!” The definition for cloud management was explained where…
Merging obsolete records in Configuration Manager 2007
When reinstalling a computer which is already present in Configuration Manager 2007 it sometime obsolete the existing client record specially when reinstalling it using PXE boot. When I wanted to use Direct Membership only in a project instead of using AD-groups for instance for targeting this became a major issue. I then found this excellent…
Installing SCCM 2007 Prerequisites unattended
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Server ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Asp-Net ServerManagerCmd -i Web-ASP ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Windows-Auth ServerManagerCMd -i Web-WMI ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Mgmt-Compat ServerManagerCmd -i Web-DAV-Publishing ServerManagerCmd -i Application-Server ServerManagerCmd -i BITS ServerManagerCmd -i RDC ServerManagerCmd -i WDS ServerManagerCmd -i FS-Fileserver %windir%\system32\inetsrv\AppCmd set config “Default Web Site/” /section:system.webServer/webdav/authoring /enabled:true /commit:apphost %windir%\system32\inetsrv\AppCmd set config “Default Web Site/” /section:system.webServer/webdav/authoring /fileSystem.allowHiddenFiles:true /commit:apphost %windir%\system32\inetsrv\AppCmd…