Category: Configuration Manager

I build my master images either in ConfigMgr or MDT depending on customer demands and resources available. When building them in Configuration Manager 2012 there are some things that are good to know, which basically is the same as when you manage Workgroup Computers as they aren’t members of the domain at that stage. 1….

Great news right after the vacation is finished! SCUG.SE (System Center user group Sweden) are planning two new System Center days at the Microsoft office in Akalla on September 23/24! We call it System Center 2012 R2 days! It will be the same as last, one day that focuses on Client Management and one day…

I have always been using the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool to create a bootable USB drives and it has worked fine. By incident I ran into another tool called Rufus which is so much easier to use when creating a bootable USB drive, it has support for UEFI built-in as well which is great! It…

I did an installation of Bitlocker Administration and Monitoring tool today in an Configuration Manager 2012 Sp1 environment with multiple Reporting Services points. When running the installation of MBAM 2 on the Configuration Manager 2012 server I ran into this issue: “Setup was unable to verify prerequisites on the computer” Error: Sequence contains more than…

Time for an old one… NO_SMS_ON_DRIVE.SMS. It is still valid and should be used on disks that shouldn’t be used by Configuration Manager, it goes for all versions. It is an empty text file mentioned above, which tells Configuration Manager not to use that disk. I still see this not being used at many customers…

The summer is here and so is Microsoft Sommarkollo 2013! 😀 Sommarkollo is a free event which offers a lot of half day sessions around many new Microsoft technologies in Helsingborg, Stockholm and Göteborg. I will be presenting in Helsingborg and Göteborg: (in Swedish) Nästa generations klienthantering med System Center 2012 SP1 / R2 och…

I wrote a script long ago which actually started in a Technet froum thread that removes the computer from the OSD collection after a successful OS deployment using a status filter rule. I have used it many times since. https://ccmexec.com/2012/07/remove-from-collection-and-clear-pxe-flag-vbscript-using-status-filter-rule/ Now I thought that the time had come to re-write it in Powershell instead, but…

On Monday, at the first day of Teched System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2 was announced! 😀 The same day there was a session called “Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 – Configuration Manager Overview” where they actually talked about some of the new features in ConfigMgr 2012 R2. The great news is that this recording and…