Stefan(www.cmtrace.com) and I had the great honor of presenting Configuration Manager Community Jewels at TechED Europe 2014, it was great fun! There are so many cool tools out there that can save a lot of time, increase the quality in what we do and improve the implementations out there as well. Thanks to all who…
Tag: Configuration Manager
2Pint Software – BranchCache for OSD Toolkit
When preparing for our session a TechED 2014 in Barcelona on Community Tools, we found this nice little tool that adds BranchCache support in WinPE, which means that during OS deployment the client can download the content from a client on the local network instead of pulling it from a DP, this is great for…
Configuration Manager book: High availability and performance tuning
Just realized I missed a release of a Configuration Manager book, “Configuration Manager book: High availability and performance tuning” by fellow MVP Marius Sandbu. A good introduction to High-availability. You can find it here on
Remove from collection and clear PXE flag vbscript using Status Filter Rule
I wrote a post a long while ago which started as question in on Technet Forum on how to remove a computer from a collection using a status filter rule once the OS deployment Task sequence is successful, I posted the script here: https://ccmexec.com/2010/03/remove-a-computer-from-a-collections-when-osd-task-sequence-is-completed/. I still use it in almost all of my implementations of Configuration…
Unattended installation of SCCM 2007 Admin Console including R3 & FEP
I wrote a post a while back on how to install the SCCM 2007 Admin Console including R3 and required hotfixes: https://ccmexec.com/2012/01/unattended-installation-of-sccm-2007-admin-console-including-r3/ In that post i also promised to write a post on how to install the SCCM 2007 Admin Console + R3 + FEP. It turned out to be a bit of a challenge as…
Forefront Endpoint protection and Locally Removed
In Forefront Endpoint protection 2010 there is no possibility to password protect the uninstallation of the FEP client. This makes it possible for instance for local admins to remove the FEP Client. I started testing to advertise the FEP client to the “Locally Removed” collection where the client will end up if the FEP client…
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…