Listing down Technical videos on SCCM 2012 (system center 2012 Configuration Manager) and other technical stuff for quick reference . Thanks to Johan(Deploymentartist). ConfigMgr 2012 Software Distribution Part 1 - With Wally Mead Run in Full Screen and HD (720). Courtesy of Deployment Artist and Knowledge Factory - Breakout sessions presented by Wally Mead during…

Overview : This Community Technology Preview (“CTP2”) enables System Center customers to jointly evaluate System Center 2012 and Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate. CTP2 includes updates and enhancements to the following System Center 2012 components: Virtual Machine Manager Improved Support for Network Virtualization Extend the VMM console with Add-ins Support for Windows Standards-Based Storage Management…
#SCCM / #Configmgr 2012 SP1 Upcoming Enhancements

The Product Group have recently announced the Beta of ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 at TechNet 2012 North America. You can view the announcement at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/MGT309 Kent blogged about new enhancements over http://blog.coretech.dk/kea/configmgr-2012-sp1-announced-teched-2012/ Enhancements include: Platform Support: Windows 8 Windows 8 tablet (Intel SoC) support Mac OS X Linux and Unix Operating System Deployment: Windows To Go…
Publish Custom Office Templates End users

This post is going to be a something new today to publish Custom Office templates made available to all users when they open PowerPoint or Word or Excel Office applications. This can be done several ways like AD group policy management or Scripting or other ways But I would prefer to do it using Configuration…

Creating collection to get computers that starts and end with particular string is used mostly using % .If this percentile used at the end of the variable name, you get all computer names that starts from particular string and if you use this in the beginning, gets all computers that ends with particular string. Examples…

  Full Details :http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrgeneral/thread/7b4d3810-a262-4c63-8dd6-7cc906b85941 select sys.name0,sys.AD_Site_Name0,FCM.SiteCode,ARP.DisplayName0,ARP.Version0,ARP.InstallDate0 from V_R_system sys inner join v_Add_Remove_Programs ARP on arp.resourceID=sys.ResourceID inner join v_FullCollectionMembership FCM on FCM.ResourceID=sys.ResourceID and arp.DisplayName0 like '%project reader%' and ARP.Version0 < '4%' For collection ,follow the post here on http://eskonr.com/2012/05/sccm-collection-computers-with-lower-version-application/

Full Details http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrgeneral/thread/7b4d3810-a262-4c63-8dd6-7cc906b85941 This collection is created using sub selected queries http://eskonr.com/2011/12/sccm-collection-sub-selected-quiries/ select SMS_R_System.ResourceId, SMS_R_System.ResourceType, SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_R_System.SMSUniqueIdentifier, SMS_R_System.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup, SMS_R_System.Client from  SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS on SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ResourceID not in (select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS on SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS_64 on SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS_64.ResourceId = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where (SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName like "%project reader%"…

Project Description The tool is designed for IT Professionals to troubleshoot SCCM/CM12 Client related Issues. The Client Center for Configuration Manager provides a quick and easy overview of client settings, including running services and Agent settings in a good easy to use, user interface. This Tool is currently an alpha Version. For testing purposes only...…