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Call to Action! Microsoft needs our feedback on the upcoming 70-243 & 70-242 certification exams that will cover System Center Configuration Manager 2012 and System Center Operations Manager 2012. Wouldn’t it be great with two tests per product? one for day-to-day admins and one for IT-Pros? Tell Microsoft your opinion using this 5 question survey

During today’s keynote the announcement we all were waiting for was made – System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 available for download now! Beta 2 is also feature-complete which means that all features which will ship in the finished product are now in there. I can’t wait to start playing with it. I encourage

SCCM 2012 will support managing Unix/Linux During the “Configuration Manager – State of the union” breakout session which as always is a highlight at MMS, a Super-secret announcement was made that it is now official that Configuration Manager 2012 will support managing Unix/Linux. The focus is to manage the server side of Unix/Linux not the

Today I had the great opportunity to attend the MMS 2011 Keynote delivered by Brad Anderson, let me tell you it was great! Thanks Brad for a great keynote! The clear message is that the cloud is all about the applications, quote:  “It’s all about the apps!” The definition for cloud management was explained where

When reinstalling a computer which is already present in Configuration Manager 2007 it sometime obsolete the existing client record specially when reinstalling it using PXE boot. When I wanted to use Direct Membership only in a project instead of using AD-groups for instance for targeting this became a major issue. I then found this excellent

ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Server ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Asp-Net ServerManagerCmd -i Web-ASP ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Windows-Auth ServerManagerCMd -i Web-WMI ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Mgmt-Compat ServerManagerCmd -i Web-DAV-Publishing ServerManagerCmd -i Application-Server ServerManagerCmd -i BITS ServerManagerCmd -i RDC ServerManagerCmd -i WDS ServerManagerCmd -i FS-Fileserver %windir%\system32\inetsrv\AppCmd set config “Default Web Site/” /section:system.webServer/webdav/authoring /enabled:true /commit:apphost %windir%\system32\inetsrv\AppCmd set config “Default Web Site/” /section:system.webServer/webdav/authoring /fileSystem.allowHiddenFiles:true /commit:apphost %windir%\system32\inetsrv\AppCmd

Last week I got an idea that it must be possible to add a newly created software distribution package to distribution points automatically. I thought that using a status filter rule to trigger a script which will add the package to distribution points should be no problem. Status filter rules are awesome! However I ran into some challenges

I have answered this question many times now on the Technet forum so I think it is time to write about it here as well. When installing Windows 7 from the DVD manually the partition needed for Bitlocker is created automatically, when deploying a captured image using SCCM however this has to be created manually.