I have installed Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 a couple of times now and I must say that the system requirements document on Technet has a complete list of pre-req’s, read it before starting the installation. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff823830.aspx The installation it self is really straightforward if all the system requirements are fulfilled. However almost every installation of either the server…
Source files on a Windows 2003 server
A colleague of mine ran into this interesting little problem the other day and I thought I would share the solution here. The setup used is SCCM 2007 Sp2/R2 installed on a Windows 2008 R2 server with package source-files located on a Windows 2003 server share. When distributing packages the following errors where recorded in the distmgr.log…
Installing the SCCM hotfixes on the clients
When doing a new installation of System Center Configuration Manager there are a number of hotfixes I always install as I mentioned earlier on my blog. A couple of them includes a client hotfix which needs to be installed on all the client either during OS deployment or another way of deploying the client for…
Move Computer to the Correct OU during deployment
When deploying Windows 7 a common scenario is that you want to move all reinstalled computer to a “Windows 7 Client” OU. When reinstalling a Computer that already has an existing computer account in Active Directory neither MDT or SCCM will move that account. This is no new pchallange but I get the question many…
SCCM post installation checklist
When I perform a new Configuration Manager installation after all the standard configuration (enable all agents necessary, configuring the different roles, boundaries, network access accounts and configure all the other standard components) I also end up doing a lot of other configuration as well. I tried to collect all the information needed about the different tasks and thought I would…
SCCM Hotfix list – November 2010
I did a new installation of SCCM 2007 recently and thought I would share the combined hotfixes I install when doing this new installation. The installation was made on Windows 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2 and Configuration Manager 2007 R3 was the version I installed. There are a lot of hotfixes which needs to be applied, the following hotfixes…
6451B – Planning, Deploying and Managing Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007
Last week I had the great pleasure to deliver the updated 6451B – Planning, Deploying and Managing Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 at Cornerstone in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is a really great course and it was a really great week, thank you everyone who attended! The new updated “B” version is updated to cover…
Planning an upgrade of an application
Some of the challenges I often face when installing/upgrading an application are for instance: LAN and WAN links must not be overloaded Exclusions must be handled A phased roll-out must be used to minimize the risks/performance impact on the WAN To be able to do a phased installation/upgrade for instance the computer name can be…