Now Configuration Manager is a complex beast, when designing a ConfigMgr site you have to plan carefully your network because there is going to be a lot of traffic going back and forth from your servers to your clients, and from your servers to your other servers. So you have to take some considerations on …
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I actually see a lot of search terms on this blog regarding Remote Control so therefore I wanted to write a post to clarify it’s functionality and how to set it up. It allows for administrators to connect to a client without using RDP and even without a user logged on and you can interact …
I see a lot of questions on the forums and lot’s of traffic on my blog regarding computer collections. In many cases you want to separate your managed computers / servers into different collections.For instance you would want to separate clients from two network segments because they need separate client settings or the clients in …
I see a lot of searches towards the blog regarding boundaries and boundary groups so therefore I thought that I should post a bit more about how these settings work and how they affect your site. A boundary is a network location in your infrastructure that contains one or more devices that you want to …
Microsoft just released the beta of service pack 1 for System Center 2012. And for ConfigMgr that includes: Deployment and management of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Distribution point for Windows Azure to help reduce infrastructure costs Automation of administrative tasks through PowerShell support Management of Mac OS X clients and Linux and UNIX …
A bit hidden in SCCM 2012 is the ability to backup site servers in Configuration Manager with a schedule, open the console go to administration –> site configuration –> sites –> settings –> Site Maintance From there you choose “Backup Sites Servers” and now you choose a backup location and set a schedule –> If …
Since the release in April, Microsoft has been working hard to finish the service pack 1 for System Center 2012. This is needed because the regular System Center 2012 release does not support Server 2012. Therefore Microsoft has to move fast to release SP1 so customers can start building Server 2012 + SC 2012 infrastructure. …
Software Metering is a feature in ConfigMgr 2012 which allows for inventory software usage. For instance you can see how many copies of an application has been deployed to computers and among these you can see how many actually use the application. And how many licenses of a particular software you need. Now in order …
