A new version of the FEP Definition Update Automation Tool is released. It contains a great new feature, that the Software Update Package containing the FEP definitions isn’t updated if there are no new Definition Updates. With the old version the DP’s were always updated, so this will save replication traffic to remote locations. Great…

The release candidate is now available! Release candidate = new product name, it is now “System Center 2012 Configuration Manager“! There are a lot of new features in the Release candidate so be sure to check it out! http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27841 Some of the new features: “In the Release Candidate, we’ve introduced some additional and enhanced capabilities, including:…

On the 25-26 of October the Best-of-MMS 2011 event took place in Stockholm Sweden. I had the great honour of doing a 5 minute demo on Configuration Manager 2012 in the keynote. It was great fun! I also delivered two sessions: “Microsoft Bitlocker Administration and Monitoring Tool” “Configuration Manager 2012 + Forefront Endpoint protection 2012…

Haven’t upgraded to Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Update Rollup 1 yet? Here is one reason which me and my customers really appreciate and that is the amount of information included in the E-mail alert sent when a malware is detected. More information have been added to the mail  in Update Rollup 1 compared to RTM. Thank…

I have done a couple of upgrades to FEP update rollup 1 and it works great, using the instructions at Technet Library. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh211538.aspx What I found however is that the shortcut on the Start Menu is duplicated as the shortcut included in the RTM FEP client is called “Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010” and the shortcut…

I got this fantastic mail!! “Dear Jorgen Nilsson, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2011 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in System Center Configuration Manager technical communities during the…

When Windows 8 Technical Preview was made available I just had to test it together with SCCM 2012 beta 2 and it works! Nice with some new toys.Here are some screenshots Software Distribution Inventory Remote Control Kent bet me to it, he posted this yesterday: http://blog.coretech.dk/kea/todays-big-question-can-you-deploy-the-configmgr-2012-beta-2-client-to-windows-8/ Niall already tested OS deployment with Windows 8, Excellent! http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/4215-using-sccm-2012-beta-2-in-a-lab-part-12-test-deploying-windows-8-developer-preview/ /Jörgen

I have used this script many times now in many different versions and I thought it was time to share an example on what can be achieved with a vbscript. It can be used to display information to the user and let the used postpone the Installation/Upgrade a number of times, check for running processes…