Configuration Manager 2012 R2 Hotfixes

Tweet SCCM 2012 R2 has some hotfixes you might need: 2905002 An update is available for the “Operating System Deployment” feature of System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager This update resolves the following issues in Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. Issue 1 After you enable the PXE Service Point role (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj217832.aspx) on an instance of ...

Configmgr 2012 R2 Toolkit

Tweet We all know that sometimes the good old SCCM toolkit can help up troubleshoot problems. Well Microsoft has released the updated version for SCCM 2012 R2. It can be found here: ConfigMgr 2012R2 Toolkit For the site this information is found: The Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Toolkit contains fifteen downloadable tools ...

What is new in System Center 2012 R2

Tweet José Rodas has made a nice overview of all the new features of the What’s New in System Center 2012 R2! Here is the overview: Configuration Manager R2 Deploy and manage Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Configure and deploy WiFi profiles, VPN configurations and certificates Maintenance windows exclusively for updates UI improvements ...

Monitoring ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 via OpsMgr 2012 SP1 1

Monitoring ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 via OpsMgr 2012 SP1
Tweet This post will describe the setup that is needed in order for your OpsMgr 2012 SP1 environment to monitor your ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 site. First download the MP via this URL http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34709 Execute the installer and you will end up with 4 files: EULA.rtf Microsoft.SystemCenter2012.ConfigurationManager.Discovery.mp Microsoft.SystemCenter2012.ConfigurationManager.Library.mp Microsoft.SystemCenter2012.ConfigurationManager.Monitoring.mp Import the 3 Management Pack Files for ConfigMgr. ...

OpsMgr 2012 Management Packs for Windows Server 2012 and SCCM 2012 SP1

Tweet All Management Packs can be found in Pinpoint: http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/search/operations-manager-d11?q= Here is an overview of Server 2012 MPs: Monitoring Pack for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (SCCM) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34709 Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39039 Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36438 Windows Server DNS 2012 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=37141 J2EE, JBoss, Tomcat, Weblogic, WebSphere http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29270 Windows Server Cluster http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2268 Windows ...

SQL Server 2012 SP1 – MsiInstaller Application Log Entries

SQL Server 2012 SP1 – MsiInstaller Application Log Entries
Tweet If you are on SQL Server 2012 SP1 (11.0.3000) and you notice the Windows Application log filling up with MSI Installer events: Information / Event ID 10000 / RestartManager / Starting session 0 – YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:sss.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Information / Event ID 11724 / MsiInstaller / Product: SQL Server 2012 Management Studio — Install started. Information / ...

Change Management console language Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 2

Tweet   When starting the management console the language of the local OS will be detected. Then it will search if a language pack is present. When found, the corresponding language will be shown and troubleshooting will become a lot harder. Try searching errors in Dutch 😉 for instance… Two solutions are possible to show ...

PXE boost SCCM 2012 2

PXE boost SCCM 2012
Tweet PXE booting during a OS Deployment with ConfigMgr 2012 can be a bit slow on a Windows 2008 R2 / 2012 server. This is because Microsoft has set values that will suite most network environments. But I want SPEED. Now what? Good news. You can tweak your PXE-enabled Distribution Point! Add a registry key: ...

Components in WinPE Boot Image – SCCM 2012 SP1 1

Tweet I was going through the Optional Componets you can select to inject in your SCCM 2012 SP1 Boot image. Then I found this reference to the excellent Microsoft site: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824926.aspx Here is an overview for the components. First the standard and then the optional ones! Area Optional component name Description Scripting WinPE-Scripting WinPE-Scripting contains ...

Cumulative Update (CU1) Pack for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1) 2

Tweet Microsoft has released the first Cumulative Update (CU1) Pack for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1). This CU1 is available here! An overview: Issues that are fixed Administrator Console A Discovery Data Record (DDR) that contains organizational unit (OU) paths that are longer than 220 characters are not processed. The DDM.log ...