First, thanks to both Ryan Boswell and Eric Morrison for contributing to this list as well as madluka and Steven Wilkinson. There has definitely been a lot of hoopla around Service Pack (SP) 1 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr). From lots of failures actually caused by certain, over-zealous anti-virus/security products to the fact …
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ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 Upgrade Guide
March 18th, 2013 | Posted by in ConfigMgr 2012 | Configuration Manager - (2 Comments)KB2522623 and Offline Servicing
September 3rd, 2012 | Posted by in ConfigMgr 2012 | Configuration Manager | Software Updates - (0 Comments)In a recent post about ConfigMgr 2012 Application Installation Failures, I discussed applying the hotfix described in KB2522623 during a build and capture task sequence to resolve access denied error for untrusted clients for Install Application tasks. As a follow-up, the brilliant, Quiet Shy (aka WMI) Guy just IMed me and asked whether you could …
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ConfigMgr Forest Discovery and Name Resolution
August 31st, 2012 | Posted by in ConfigMgr 2012 - (0 Comments)Forest Discovery is a new feature in ConfigMgr 2012 that enables ConfigMgr to dynamically create boundaries based on subnet information in Active Directory and publish service location information to multiple forests. You can specify an account in the discovery’s configuration if the site server account does not have permissions to read from or write to …
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ConfigMgr 2012 Application Installation Failures
August 30th, 2012 | Posted by in Applications | ConfigMgr 2012 - (6 Comments)I’ve seen this as an issue now a few times now in my lab and production environments as well as on the forums. In brief, this specific issue is an access denied (hresult of 0×80070005) when downloading the application content and is clearly denoted in either smsts.log (if the application install is during a task …
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Updating the Windows Update Agent (WUA) with ConfigMgr
August 20th, 2012 | Posted by in Configuration Manager | Rants | Software Updates - (1 Comments)With the latest update to WSUS (described in KB2720211) also came an update to the WUA, version 7.6.7600.256; however, this updated WUA is not available for separate download and can only be installed directly via WSUS as described in KB949104. This is somewhat disconcerting for a handful of reasons including the following: There is no …
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ConfigMgr 2012 and 32-bit Application Installers
August 12th, 2012 | Posted by in Applications | ConfigMgr 2012 - (0 Comments)Why are 32-bit application installers special and why do they need special handling? First, a caveat: If you don’t have any 64-bit OSes in your environment (or never will), then there is nothing special about them. I think I can safely say that no one using ConfigMgr 2012 falls into this category though. On 64-bit …
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I’ve seen a lot of environments and the one typical commonality is that there simply was no planning or forethought put into where to store everything like source files, packages, downloads, etc. Chaos reigns and it ain’t pretty. For all of my lab builds and production rollouts, I use a simple script to build up …
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Secondary Sites and Boundary Groups
August 2nd, 2012 | Posted by in ConfigMgr 2012 | Configuration Manager - (4 Comments)Boundary Groups were introduced in ConfigMgr 2012 to combine boundaries together and give them one of two common purposes: Content Location Site Assignment These are the same two things that boundaries were used for in ConfigMgr 2007; however, all boundaries were used for both purposes in 2007 and there was no way to separate them …
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ConfigMgr Startup Script Update
July 29th, 2012 | Posted by in Client | Configuration Manager - (1 Comments)After a lot of work, here’s my latest incarnation of the startup script, version 1.54: http://blog.configmgrftw.com/?page_id=349. Lots of new features since 1.03 including: Bug fixes More error checking Better and more error messages Automatic ConfigMgr client agent hotfix installation Startup delay Time stamps WinPE check Local administrator check Calling of an external script to check …
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