Another fancy feature from within Configuraiton Manager is the ability to create VHDs direcly from the console by using a task sequence. Think of the possibilities of creating golden images by bulding a VHD file and then importing this direcly into SCVMM. In order to do this process there are a couple of requirements.* You …
One of the awesome features in Configuration Manager SP1 is the ability to define a distribution point as pull based. In essence what it does is that instead of pushing content from a site server to all the distribution points within a site, you define a pull DP and a source DP. Regular content distribution. …
The Configuration Manager team at Microsoft released a huge number of updates today regarding the System Center 2012 R2 release –>http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2013/08/29/announcement-configuration-manager-documentation-library-update-for-august-2013.aspx And something I was waiting for, finally showed up! how to create a VHD from a task sequence –> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn448591.aspx
A customer asked me recently can I configure load balancing for my Application Catalog service on Configuration Manager, since It runs on Silverlight im unsure how it will work… Sure you can!The Application Catalog in Configuration Manager consist of two components, the Application Catalog Web Service Point and the website point. Now when you install …
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Microsoft has seen that all environments aren’t all black and white. Some have Linux/Unix based systems, some have Mac’s and some are just sitting on a terminal such as Wyse or Igel.And then there are some that just use a tablet (iPad or Android based) Some are lucky enough to have a Windows 8 RT …
First part of this series, I showed how you could run and install all the necessary prerequisites silent and automated, this time I will write a bit more instead of just adding the commands.In Service Pack 1, Configuration Manager will finally include cmdlets for PowerShell this allows for a scripted and automated setup process. Therefore …
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To run the Setup Downloader from command promt setupdl \MyServerMyShareConfigMgrUpdates /VERIFY: Use this option to verify the files in the download folder, which include language files. Review the ConfigMgrSetup.log file in the root of the C drive for a list of files that are outdated. No files are downloaded when you use this option. /VERIFYLANG: …
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 …
Short post!What is important when planning your SCCM deployment ? Plan for High Availability! (among other things)SCCM can span from a simple to a very complex solution And it can also be in a complex hierarchy as well. So it is important to know “where do I need to deploy multiple servers in order 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 …
