Stephan Wibier

HTTPS Communication SCCM 2012 SP1 (Part 3) 3

Feb

2

2013

If you do a default installation of ConfigMgr 2012 the clients will communicate over HTTP with the Management Point. Also all traffic from the Distribution Point will be over HTTP. And if you use the Application Catalog, well that’s HTTP also. In this 3 post series I will explain the steps to go from HTTP ...

HTTPS Communication SCCM 2012 SP1 (Part 2) 7

Feb

2

2013

If you do a default installation of ConfigMgr 2012 the clients will communicate over HTTP with the Management Point. Also all traffic from the Distribution Point will be over HTTP. And if you use the Application Catalog, well that’s HTTP also. In this 3 post series I will explain the steps to go from HTTP ...

HTTPS Communication SCCM 2012 SP1 (Part 1) 3

Feb

2

2013

If you do a default installation of ConfigMgr 2012 the clients will communicate over HTTP with the Management Point. Also all traffic from the Distribution Point will be over HTTP. And if you use the Application Catalog, well that’s HTTP also. In this 3 post series I will explain the steps to go from HTTP ...

Create Cloud Distribution Point on Windows Azure with SCCM 2012 SP1 (Part 2) 1

Feb

1

2013

Cloud, everybody is talking about that. And with the new ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 fully integrating with Windows Azure it’s time to see how this works. You need to have some things in place first, so here we go: A Windows Azure subscription (duh) A working PKI Infrastructure 2 (a .cer and a .pfx) certificates to ...

Create Cloud Distribution Point on Windows Azure with SCCM 2012 SP1 (Part 1) 2

Feb

1

2013

Cloud, everybody is talking about that. And with the new ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 fully integrating with Windows Azure it’s time to see how this works. You need to have some things in place first, so here we go: A Windows Azure subscription (duh) A working PKI Infrastructure 2 (a .cer and a .pfx) certificates to ...

System Center 2012 SP1 – Evaluation VHDs

Feb

1

2013

Want to test, play or evaluate the new System Center 2012 SP1 products? Microsoft launched the public VHD’s for System Center 2012 SP1. The download consists of a single pre-configured VHD file for the System Center 2012 SP1 product. These downloads are free for everyone who wants to see what the new System Center 2012 ...

Hide Management Pack (MP) from Operations Manager Console – SCOM 2012

Jan

31

2013

So you got Operations Manager 2012 installed. The console looks fine and you can select which Management Packs (MP) you want to see and which ones you don’t. Every admin who logs in to the console will have to do this and this is fine for sealed MP’s. But what about your own, unsealed, MP’s? ...

Operations Manager 2012 (SCOM) Activation 10

Jan

31

2013

When you install Operations Manager 2012 (SP1) you may notice is that there is no request for a product key when you install Operations Manager 2012. Once the install is complete and you open up the console the following is displayed: When you click Help à About à will show that you are running an ...

Domain-Join Account for SCCM and MDT 8

Jan

30

2013

When working with deployment tools you need to have an account which can add Computers to a certain Organizational Unit (OU) in Active Directory. As we all know: do NOT use a ‘Domain Admin’ account for this purpose. The account used for adding computers to Active Directory will appear unencrypted in the unattend.xml! So it’s ...

SCCM 2012 SP1 and SQL Server 4

Jan

30

2013

Here is an overview of the SQL Server configurations and requirements for supported SQL Server installations for ConfigMgr 2012. Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682077.aspx Configurations for the SQL Server Site Database Each System Center 2012 Configuration Manager site database can be installed on either the default instance or a named instance of a SQL Server installation. The SQL Server instance can be ...