After 4 weeks’ vacation I started working again and the first thing I planned to do was to implement the new feature in FEP 2010 Update Rollup 1 for automating approval of FEP 2010 definition updates in SCCM instead of doing it separately in WSUS on the SCCM server as many of us do today….
Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 hotfix list
I have put together a list of hotfixes for Configuration Manager 2007 with descriptions and download links. I started doing it together with a colleague (thanks Ola) and thought that more people could have use for it. My plan is to keep this up to date as new hotfixes are released in the future and include…
Query to determine 32 or 64 bit Operating System
In many cases there are a need create a collection with either all Windows 7 – x86 or all Windows 7 x64 installed. This can be used for targeting only a specific platform with an update or a program. I do this by querying the SCCM inventory, SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.SystemType which returns “x64-based PC”or “X86-based PC”. Query to…
What’s New in FEP 2010 Update Rollup 1
I stumbled accross this updated article on Technet this morning about what’s new in FEP 2010 Update Rollup 1. I guess this means that the Forefront Update Rollup 1 is soon to be released! The download link doesn’t work yet but I am sure it will soon 😀 Here is the link to the download…
System Center Updates Publisher and OSD
When you use System Center Updates Publisher(SCUP) to publish updates to SCCM/WSUS so that they can be deployed as patches you have to have a code-signing certificate, as many guides describes out there. If you use the WSUS self-generated you need to distribute the self-signed certificate to the client computers using either SCCM or a…
SCCM Report – Clients that have not reported recently – Per Collection
There was a question in the Technet forum for a report with Last Hardware and Last Software inventory date per collection. Therefor I added the CollectionID as a condition for the built-in report “Clients that have not reported recently (in a specified number of days)” so that it can be run per collection. This can…
SCCM Packages report with Packagetype
There was a question asked in the Microsoft Technet forum after a report which displayed all virtual application packages in the site. From that I got the idea to add a column to the normal All Packages report which contains the Packagetype. After the modification the report looks has a new column called Package Type…
FEP 2012 Beta 2 available for download
Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012 Beta 2 is now available! During the second half of 2011 Microsoft will release the next version of System Center Configuration Manager 2012 and in near future after that a new version of FEP will also be released. The new version of FEP will be integrated with SCCM 2012 so you…