Hi Everyone, This is our first post in a long while, we've had our heads down ramping up on System Center 2012 and helping the first wave of early adopters. As part of some of the work we've done, we found one common scenario where customers are looking to migrate their server patching from WSUS…
How to Use SQL Joins while writing SCCM Reports

  create reports for the requirement and i first start analyzing the necessity and find the information about the required information where they stored in SCCM Database (SQL views). Most of the reports (SQL) that i have created in this blog created with basic syntax’s like joins. Only certain reports go beyond the joins but…

It was yet another big day for Microsoft and the Windows 8 team as the RTM build was officially made available to download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. So How to activate windows 8 enterprise Via command prompt with product key. Step 1: Right click on cmd and select run as administrator step 2: type…
SCCM report Count packages with no advertisements

This blog post will help you to identify packages (count) for which there is no advertisement created and not used these packages in any task sequence.Once you have the packages ,you can further take action whether you really need these packages to exist in SCCM or cleanup to save disk space and avoid unused packages…
#SCCM /#Configmgr backup failing with error starting asynchronous do snapshotset smsbkp.log

Recently encountered backup issue on one of the primary site server and backup never ends stuck at “info:starting asynchronous do snapshotset… ” though sms_site_backup service running and never(did not monitored for too longtime) ends until you stop it manually. Below is the snapshot captured when error occurred. Why does it hangs over there ? what…

Our engineering team has had an amazing journey this past year with two key releases to help our customers improve their capabilities for deploying Windows in their enterprises.   As you know, we released Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 in April of this year to coincide with the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) and this enabled a lot…

System Center 2012 SP1 (currently in CTP2) includes the following update 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 Service, thin provisioning of logical       units and discovery of SAS storage…