Well it’s been a little while now since I’ve done much blogging, particularly for WMUG as I’ve been a little pre-occupied the past 12 months or so writing a book with Packt Publishing. I’m very happy that my WMUG colleague Gerry Hampson agreed to co-author with me and he did a great job too. As…
I’ve been having some conversations over the last few days around whether or not Hyper-V replica is a supported solution for providing some level of high availability within a Configuration Manager environment and to be honest I still don’t have a straight answer for you but some guidance you can work to. Personally I have…
I’ve been using powershell with Configuration Manager recently and I’ve been looking at security roles. If you’re looking to create your own security roles with powershell and you don’t already have a template, you’ll first need to copy one of the existing roles to get started. To do this you need to know the role…
This is possibly one of best ‘minimum effort maximum gain’ jobs you can do in your Configuration Manager installation, it’s a real no-brainer. By integrating Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) with Configuration Manager you get the best of both worlds in your deployment scenarios as MDT can extend the functionality of Configuration Manager, pretty much the…
Having passed this exam a number of different Microsoft exams myself, I thought some people may find it useful to get some feedback and guidance from someone who’s been there and done it. Now obviously I’m not going to give away any answers or suggest what the questions may include due to the Non-Disclosure Agreement…
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…
So if you are using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and want to add your machines into different OU’s depending on whether they are laptops or desktops there are many ways you can do it. Probably the easiest way is to use MDT integration and then add a task sequence step condition to use…
If you are experiencing some issues trying to use the remote tools feature of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 on some machines and also deploying to some machines, check All Status messages in ConfigMgr. If you see the errors… “The ConfigMgr Advanced Client received policy that could not be verified. For more information see PolicyAgent.log…
More than patches 