Today Microsoft released CU3 version of ConfigMgr 2013 R2, and there are some minor bugfixes but there is also one important new change here! That is the ability to define allowed Management Points for a client to communicate with, This cumulative update introduces a new registry key on clients that will restrict which management point …
For sometime now I have been occupied with my little book project, it has taken a lot of time from my blogging since it has been completely new territory for my part. But! it has been a unique learning experience and I think that I’ve never been this good a using Word… Ever! A while …
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 …
Well, along time since I’ve managed to blog! But ill give a quick update about the book im writing. Im writing a book about Configuration Manager which is going to cover high-availability and performance tuning, really exiting times! It takes up alot of my time therefore my lack of blogging lately.Anways, this is something I’ve …
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. …
Now Citrix released a beta build of Excalibur a couple of months ago, which shows the next generation of XenDesktop and XenApp architecture. (Well actually just XenDestkop, since the XenApp architecture is disappearing) In addition, with this release we have some fancy choices for how to manage the machines within XenDesktop. Excalibur will add additional …
Had some trouble with a case today that the application catalog would not start. When we opened the catalog they could not connect to the catalog service and got this error message. According to the error message it could not connect to the application service. If we checked the service with ConfigMgr console we can …
The new Intune release that will be an early christmas gift for many has numerous new features including: And now you can connect your on-premise ConfigMgr instance with Intune for more broad device management. Here you have a list of the fully supported mobile devices. Still missing the direct support for Android based phones but …
With Service Pack 1 there is a lot of new features available for instant actions. ConfigMgr is not happening “real-time” so when you deploy software to a computer it needs to wait for the computer to update its policy before it realizes that a new software is available. With Service Pack 1 you have more …
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With the major release of System Center 2012 and soon to be Service Pack 1. Microsoft has updated the End-of-life of its former System Center 2007 products. Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Operations Manager 2007 Data Protection Manager 2007 Service Manager 2010 System Center Virtual Machine Manager And with the release of Windows Server 2012, System …
