I have ran into this a couple of times now when moving site roles in Configuration Manager 2012. When uninstalling the WSUS server components from in this case the Primary Site server to move it to a dedicated server instead the Management Point on the Primary Site server started giving HTTP Error 500 Internal Server…
TechED 2014 Houston
I have the great honor to be speaking at TechED 2014 in Houston together with Stefan Schörling. The session is called “Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Community Jewels”. We will present and demo many of the cool tools that are available created by the community and show how they can help you solve day to…
Configuration Manager book: High availability and performance tuning
Just realized I missed a release of a Configuration Manager book, “Configuration Manager book: High availability and performance tuning” by fellow MVP Marius Sandbu. A good introduction to High-availability. You can find it here on
Building OS images? Bookmark this!
When building a new OS image it is a really good idea to include Visual C++ Redistributable packages in the image as well as .NET framework versions so that we don’t need to handle these software components as dependencies for all applications but have it included in the standard image instead. I also copy Cmtrace.exe to…
Eject the CD/DVD if media is present
When enabling Bitlocker using Configuration Manager the step fails if there are a CD/DVD inserted. There are many great solutions to eject the CD/DVD before enabling Bitlocker out there. As CD/DVD are not used at all that much anymore I was kind if annoyed that it ejected the CD/DVD every time and when enabling Bitlocker…
Provision ActiveSync email profiles to mobile devices using ConfigMgr2012 R2 and Windows Intune
A really cool new announcement was just made: a new feature in Configuration Manager 2012 R2 / Windows Intune that makes it possible to provision ActiveSynce email profiles using ConfigMgr 2012 and Windows Intune. Thought that I would post this here as well as it is bigger news than just the fact that you can…
Importing reports in ConfigMgr 2012 R2 / Reporting Services
I have gotten a number of requests for some reports in ConfigMgr 2012 which I wrote for ConfigMgr 2007. Finally time to get around to do it. To start of I wrote this little guide for how to import a Configuration Manager 2012 Report using Report Builder. It is not really as simple as in…
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Tools – TechNet Wiki
As a result on all the feedback on the Configuration Manager 2012 tools list blog post me and Stefan put together after our System Center User Group session and the fact that we couldn’t find any good list of tools when we prepared the session. I have created a TechNet Wiki page and posted the…