Having freshly installed SCCM clients not pick up their policy for the first time is, unfortunately, not terribly uncommon. A quick look at the LocationServices.log or ClientLocation.log files will generally…
While doing some Configuration Manager maintenance, I needed to completely remove a defunct site system. I removed all the roles that were still present but was unable to delete the…
I had a need recently to restore a production SCCM backup into a lab environment in order to perform some tests. I built a domain and site system servers using…
Recently I came across an issue when attempting to silently deploy Office 2013. I use MDT to build my image, and during the image build process Office 2013 is installed….
IT administrators are facing numerous challenges these days. Security has always been a concern and is an ever changing and evolving challenge to keep up with. With so many solutions…
Microsoft’s made some significant changes to their System Center offering. I’ve had a chance to really look it over and I’m very impressed. For those unfamiliar with System Center 2012,…
Configuration Manager – Unknown Host One of the things I like about System Center Configuration Manager’s OS Deployment is that once a Task Sequence is working as expected, it continues…
Loss of SCCM 2007 / FEP 2010 Policies If you run into the issue that I did after enabling FEP2010 into SCCM 2007, that you lose access to the polices…
Why deploy Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager? Almost everyone is tasked with trying to do more with less these days. Time is a precious commodity and anything to increase your…
SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012 Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 is now in Beta 2 release. “SCCM 2012” is a considerable rebuild over SCCM 2007. Similar to Novell’s ZenWorks,…