Nowadays with the advent of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 you no longer require WAIK for use with Configuration Manager 2012 SP1. Instead you should download and install ADK. Be aware that this download is effectively a web installer, once you run adksetup.exe you are given the option to download on the fly or store…
I fell foul of this problem this week whereby I had been installing a System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 site server. This was a new build Windows Server 2012 but as I began the installation a handy error message alerted me to the existence of an SCCM client. It became apparent that the existing Configuration…
So I thought it about time I started to get to grips with Orchestrator 2012. It’s a product I’ve been aware of and known a bit about since Opalis (pre-Microsoft) days and as someone who frequently uses other Microsoft System Center and server products I know it’s capabilities and how useful it can be to…
Whilst searching for a SQL Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guide I stumbled across this link http://bit.ly/A8nQsI (69MB zip file) which allows you to download 92 current (and some past) IPD guides in one fell swoop. Really handy to keep hold of as a point of reference whether you’re a multi-skilled consultant or internal sys admin, these…
So here’s the scenario, you’ve been told that there are machines showing a network adapter with an exclamation and error in windows device manager. The task is to get a list of the machines using ConfigMgr 2012 which are affected by this and then you can work on narrowing down the problem. It may be…
In order to get the most out of your Microsoft System Center 2012 investment you’ll no doubt want to get the Asset Intelligence features of Configuration Manager (SCCM) working. You can add your Microsoft Volume licensing statement into SCCM but what if you want to add in non-Microsoft licences? Now I’m making an assumption here…
Today Microsoft released the first update roll-up for the System Center 2012 SP1 suite. A pretty quick release from Microsoft seeing as SP1 isn’t yet available to Joe Public and the whole System Center 2012 suite hasn’t been available for a year yet. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2785682 I think this shows 2 things from Microsoft: There are still a number…
More than patches 