This summer Microsoft Sweden invites everyone to some free learning before summer vacation, called Sommarkollo. A great way to get some information about new technology and to prepare for the fall and some exciting released coming up! The agenda is packed with many sessions! I have the great pleasure to talk about System Center 2012 Configuration Manager…
Upgrading ConfigMgr 2012 from Evaluation version
In System Center 2012 Configuration Manager it is really easy to upgrade an installation that was made using the Evaluation option when you installed it to a fully licensed installation by simply entering the Product key. This it useful in so many scenarios. It is done by using the “Configuration Manager Setup” which can be…
ConfigMgr 2012 Adminconsole unattended installation
I have written a couple of scripts before to install the SCCM 2007 console which is a challenge with R3 and hotfixes e.t.c. In System Center 2012 Configuration Manager this has now changed, it is really simple to install the Admin Console unattended. There is no need to run Setup and use an unattended file…
Running Configuration Manager 2012 Remote Control standalone
In some scenarios you may want for instance servicedesk or helpdesk personnel run the Configuration Manager 2012 Remote Control without having to install the Admin Console and grant them permissions to use the Admin Console when they really only need to run Remote Control. Here is how to do it, the following files are needed….
Technical Documentation Download for ConfigMgr2012 is available!
The offline documentation for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is available for download! It is available in three formats: CHM (as part of the Help Update Wizard msi) – last updated May 23, 2012 DOCX – last updated May 23, 2012 PDF – last updated May 23, 2012 It is a great resource to have…
MS KB:A PXE enabled Distribution Point that uses a self-signed certificate will generate many files in ConfigMgr2012
Hi, This article was released a couple of days ago and can be good to know about. From the MS KB: “A PXE enabled Distribution Point will generate a number of files under C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\S-1-5-18 for each PXE request that it services on the network. This occurs whether the device sending the PXE request has a…
Adding a Collection ID prompt to “Computers not inventoried recently…”
There was a question asked on the Technet forum today on how to make the builtin report in SCCM 2007 “Computers not inventoried recently (in a specified number of days)” to be filtered per Collection and prompt for a CollectionID. The updated report looks like this, the changes made are in bold letters: SELECT INST.SMS_Installed_Sites0, SYS.Netbios_Name0, SYS.User_Domain0, SYS.User_Name0,…
Adding language support in ConfigMgr 2012 after installation
In some scenarios where you would install System Center 2012 Configuration Manager you install the languages you need, but when your company is expanding you will need to install additional languages. In ConfigMgr 2012 we don’t have any International Client Packs which was the case for earlier versions, instead the languages are selected and installed…