Category: Configuration Manager

Service Pack 1 has been out there for a while with a lot of great new features! There are some things to think about when upgrading and existing Configuration Manager 2012 environment.I have tried to collect useful information here to make it easier for you to upgrade to Service Pack 1. 1. Read the “Planning…

There was a question on Technet forum a while ago, requesting a script to configure the “Automatically install or uninstall required software and restart the computer only outside of the specified business hours”. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmanagerapps/thread/08d2f8e9-feaf-4143-af56-7e97ef20267c/ Torsten Meringer, ConfigMgr MVP wrote a blog post and a script a while back on how to modify the Business Hours…

Here is a Holiday reading tip! This book is a great book if you want to get started with Configuration Manager 2012! It is well written by experienced professionals (Brian Mason and Greg Ramsey both MVP’s) with tons of experience, with a focus on getting you started and explaining why you do the things you…

In some scenarios in Configuration Manager 2012 you want your packages, OS images, boot image and driver packages, well everything you use in a task sequence to be available on the package share so that we can use the option to access the content directly during OS deployment. This of course takes up more disk…

Sometimes an OS deployment fails for different reasons, one thing that can be a problem is that users in some cases don’t see the error message saying that the installation failed and starts using the computer. Even if we use “SMSTSErrorDialogTimeout” to change the default 15 minutes error dialog to 22 hours, the installation can…

The recording from our System Center User Group Livemeeting, “System Center 2012 Configuration Manager – Tips & tricks”  is now live on Youtube! The recording is in Swedish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaEVZ08E-z0&feature=plcp

I wrote post a long time ago on how to modify the builtin reports in Configuration Manager 2007 to display serial numbers for Lenovo computers as well as they are not stored in the same WMI class, https://ccmexec.com/2010/04/lenovo-computers-and-serial-numbers-in-reports/ Per request here is how to do the same in Configuration Manager 2012 for the report “Hardware…

Did you know that you can multi-select topics in the Technet library and export it to a PDF in a very nice format, with table of content and chapters?It is extremely nice for viewing on a tablet on a plane for instance? I found this nice little feature in the Technet Library which I didn’t have a…