When migrating from SMS2003 or another deployment solution to SCCM 2007/MDT, one of the challenges are to import the computers into the MDT database so they are present when a computer needs to be re-installation is necessary. Michael Niehaus have written a great article and powershell cmdlet which I have used a couple of times now…
Category: Configuration Manager
Best-of-MMS Event i Stockholm Sweden
I had the great honor to be presenting two sessions at the Cornerstone event Best-of-MMS in Stockholm 28-29/9. It was really a great event and a great time! Thanks to Cornerstone, all the sponsors and of course everyone who attended for making it a great event!
Using the ACT Connector together with ACT 5.6
In June 2010 the Application Compatibility Toolkit version 5.6 was released. If you do a fresh install of the ACT 5.6 you need to use the following script to configure the ACT Connector to be able ti connect the updated database. The “wizard” in the console to connect to the database doesn’t work against the…
SCCM 2007 and IIS logging
One of the most common problems I see at customers is that the IIS logs on the SCCM servers are filling up the system drive. The log files can easily become around up to 2GB per day on a site server with the MP and DP roles on it, of course depending on many other factors as well, number…
Teched Europe 2010 – Berlin
We are getting closer to the TechED Europe which takes place in Berlin 8-12 of November. It will be a great event! I will be attending along with a lot of other Swedish colleagues. we will be staying at the Swissôtel and I highly recommend all other Swedish attendees to join us at the same hotel! See…
Adding Computer to AD groups during deployment
There are many scenarios where there is a need to add a computer to an AD-group during deployment, for instance to enable the computer to use a wireless network or adding the computer to a application group. I created this little script which can be run for instance from a task sequence in SCCM, which…
Unattended installation of SCCM Admin Console
As we work with System Management of course we must deploy the SCCM Admin Console to our administrative computers automatically by using SCCM, installing it manually is no sport 😉 Many of us use SCCM 2007 R2 and as you all know it must be installed in addition to the SCCM admin console to enable…
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 RC – Available on Connect
The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 RC is now available for download on Microsoft Connect. It includes R3 version 6556 with Client version 6492. Also check out the new Powerspy tool availabe since the beta refresh. What is power spy? Power Spy is a client tool provided with Configuration Manager 2007 R3 which allows administrators to view and troubleshoot…