Category: System Centre

SCCM 2012 and FEP 2012 Beta 2

So not exactly new news here - but i had a bit of a quick play with this..... and FEP 2012 - looking good. Interface has been aligned a bit more with the SCOM/SCSM look and is definately better than the SCCM 2007 add-on... Grab the stuff and have a look for yourselves... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=4da60258-5e61-4d16-8fae-d3c9fccf56dc http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=B64C2029-0F56-4606-BA0C-EA92E03541F5&displaylang=en…

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WAIK – Win7 SP1 compat issues

Mike Niehaus has posted a blog entry about issues and workarounds for WAIK Win 7 SP1..... realisticially, the guts of it is - dont use this version of the WAIK yet.... (do people even use the WAIK outside of MDT and SCCM ?) http://blogs.technet.com/b/mniehaus/archive/2011/03/12/issue-with-mdt-2010-update-1-and-windows-aik-for-windows-7-sp1-supplement.aspx

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SCOM 2007 R2 – Never ending discovery

A client of mine recent came and asked about SCOM - their discovery process was running "forever" - and sure enough it was. The permissions looked fine, the SPN's had been set the SQL broker was enabled.... It turned out to be that the collation on the SQL server was set differently to the collation…

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SCCM R3 chat....

http://edge.technet.com/Media/Whats-New-with-Configuration-Manager-R3-and-vNext/ SCCM R3 being focused on power management, we all already know that... forefront security management being integrated into the console... meh - kind of interesting, but the fact remains that forefront needs to get usable first (which i am hoping 2010 will be) MDT integration updates to build in end user choices (instead of…

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DPM 2010 RTM's

http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2010/04/19/the-right-tools-for-the-job-sce-2010-dpm-2010.aspx ignore sce - but DPM 2010 looks like it has RTM'ed.... hopefully will be available for download in a few days

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APPV 4.6 available

mmmm, finally, x64 support.... but at least its not an announcement, it's available from the technet site right now. http://blogs.technet.com/mdop/archive/2010/02/19/app-v-4-6-and-med-v-1-0-sp1-rc-are-here.aspx On releases - SCCM 2007 R3, was due in janurary.... now i hear its end of the calendar year! not sure whats happened there....

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SCCM – FFS!

Recently we've dealt with a number of schools who have been moving to SCCM... so far, each school has used their "default" services provider to install SCCM.... for a few days up to a few weeks...with wildly varying degrees of failure.... from not even getting a primary installed to getting it installed, but having the…

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