2013 Microsoft® MVP Award
After pressing F9 a lot today in Outlook I finally got the mail I was waiting for! I have the great honor of being rewarded with the 2013 Microsoft® MVP Award – Enterprise Client Management! “Dear...
View ArticleKB:Software Updates That Require Multiple Reboots may Cause Task Sequence..
Today Microsoft released a new KB targeting problems with the Install Software Updates hanging when you use the Install Software Updates step in a Task Sequence. This issue has been around since...
View ArticleEndpoint Protection and additional scheduled scans
When doing implementations of Endpoint Protection both 2007 and 2012 one question that comes up many times is that the customer wants to run a weekly quick scan and a monthly full scan or a daily quick...
View ArticleSystem Center 2012 R2 Evaluation VHD’s now available!
All the System Center 2012R2 components are now available for download! The links and to the products that ship Evaluation VHDs can be found at the following below: System Center 2012 R2 Configuration...
View ArticleUpdate a device driver Configuration Manager 2012
Updating device drivers in a task that will have to be done from time to time to solve problems with drivers or software related to the device used. There are two kinds of device drivers, the ones that...
View ArticleConfiguration Manager 2012 R2 OS Deployment Hotfixes
For Configuration Manager 2012 R2 there are now two hotfixes available, remember to only install them if you are experiencing the issues described in the KB article. “An update is available for the...
View ArticleExclude IE 11 when building images using WSUS
In some scenarios that I have written about before I end up building my master image using the ZTIWindowsUpdate.wsf script from MDT to install the updates needed during the build from Microsoft Update,...
View ArticleNovember 2013 anti-malware platform update for Endpoint Protection clients
An update for Endpoint Protection Clients were released on November 28 2013, it updates the client to version: “4.4.304.0″. The update applies to the following Endpoint Protection / Configuration...
View ArticleSystem Center User Group Sweden – Client Gathering 10/1 – 2014
Registrations are now open for System Center User Group Sweden – Client Gathering 10/1 – 2014 at Microsoft in Akalla, Stockholm – Sweden. We are really proud to present Wally Mead as one of the...
View ArticleConfigMgr 2012 R2 Toolkit – Collection Evaluation Viewer
With the release of Configuration Manager 2012 R2 Toolkit three new tools are included in the Toolkit! The toolkit can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36213...
View ArticleLinks from our System Center User Group meeting in Stockholm 14/1 – 2014
Here are the links from mine and Stefan’s (http://cmtrace.com) session “Configuration Manager Community Jewels” that we presented at the System Center User Group meeting in Stockholm 14/1 -2014. There...
View ArticleSigning the Intune Company Portal app – Windows Phone 8
Management of Windows Phone 8 through Configuration Manager 2012 R2 + Intune requires that you download and sign the Company Portal app using a Symantec code signing cert. There is a trial kit...
View ArticleSystem Center 2012 Configuration Manager Tools – TechNet Wiki
As a result on all the feedback on the Configuration Manager 2012 tools list blog post me and Stefan put together after our System Center User Group session and the fact that we couldn’t find any good...
View ArticleImporting reports in ConfigMgr 2012 R2 / Reporting Services
I have gotten a number of requests for some reports in ConfigMgr 2012 which I wrote for ConfigMgr 2007. Finally time to get around to do it. To start of I wrote this little guide for how to import a...
View ArticleProvision ActiveSync email profiles to mobile devices using ConfigMgr2012 R2...
A really cool new announcement was just made: a new feature in Configuration Manager 2012 R2 / Windows Intune that makes it possible to provision ActiveSynce email profiles using ConfigMgr 2012 and...
View ArticleEject the CD/DVD if media is present
When enabling Bitlocker using Configuration Manager the step fails if there are a CD/DVD inserted. There are many great solutions to eject the CD/DVD before enabling Bitlocker out there. As CD/DVD are...
View ArticleBuilding OS images? Bookmark this!
When building a new OS image it is a really good idea to include Visual C++ Redistributable packages in the image as well as .NET framework versions so that we don’t need to handle these software...
View ArticleConfiguration Manager book: High availability and performance tuning
Just realized I missed a release of a Configuration Manager book, “Configuration Manager book: High availability and performance tuning” by fellow MVP Marius Sandbu. A good introduction to...
View ArticleTechED 2014 Houston
I have the great honor to be speaking at TechED 2014 in Houston together with Stefan Schörling. The session is called “Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Community Jewels”. We will present...
View ArticleUninstalling WSUS on Primary Site server causing HTTP Error 500
I have ran into this a couple of times now when moving site roles in Configuration Manager 2012. When uninstalling the WSUS server components from in this case the Primary Site server to move it to a...
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