Microsoft announced some exciting stuff about Configuration manager 2012 and upcoming product Configmgr Technical preview (can this be SCCM Configmgr 2016?) at Microsoft Ignite 2015. I did blog yesterday on Configuration manager updates from Ignite session ,Read the post here. After the release of Configuration manager Technical preview,i started downloading and Installed it in my lab to play with it .During the installation,i captured few screen shots will be posting in this blog. There are is Big difference in the Installation of Tech preview compared to its Previous version (configuration manager 2012).If you have done the installation of Configuration manager…
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Lot of interesting news are coming out from Microsoft Ignite 2015 and from social networking Sites(mainly from Twitter).I have been actively monitoring the tags with #msignite and #Configmgr .Some of the interesting facts about Configuration manager products are: 1. Microsoft has made configuration manager and Endpoint Protection Technical Preview (it will be next Configmgr Version 2016) available for testing http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-system-center-configuration-manager-and-endpoint-protection-technical-preview ,for technical preview documentation refer https://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn965439.aspx 2. Service Pack will be released next week for Configuration Manager 2012 and 2012 R2. 3.Support for Windows 10 (No OSD support) using Configuration manager 2007 4.New service pack (Configmgr 2012) supports up to…
The most awaiting Big event Microsoft Ignite 2015 is about to Start from Today (May 4–8, 2015 ) in Chicago, Illinois.More information about Ignite can browse via http://ignite.microsoft.com/ This blog post is quick one to list configuration manager 2012 sessions from this Big and Great Event . These sessions are picked from the Microsoft ignore session catalog. I have now updated the webcast link for the below sessions . 1. Deploying Office 365 ProPlus Using System Center Configuration Manager By Amesh Mansukhani 2. Managing Linux Workloads in Windows Server, Microsoft System Center and Windows Azure Pack By Anurag Gupta…
This week SSRS report is about knowing the count of applications,packages,driver packages,SUP packages,boot images,OS images,Virtual packages etc into Nice Pie Chart also know about the Distribution status of each package . This report has 2 queries inside SSRS 1) for Pie Chart and 2)list the Distribution Status for each package with sorting order. Its always nice to know the figure on the content ,content success status. Download the SSRS Report(.RDL) from TechNet Gallary,Upload to your SSRS Report,change the Database source.
I was troubleshooting configmgr 2012 R2 client,the other day ,I found below error from ccmsetup.log MSI: Setup was unable to compile the file AppSynclet_Local.mof The error code is 80041002 Error code 80041002 says ,Not found.Source: Windows Management (WMI) I tried compiling the AppSynclet_Local.mof (C:\windows\ccm) file, it throw error saying,syntax errors in line 22. This pushed me to cop MOF file from working PC if that make any difference but it did not work. if you look into the mof file,it is trying to operate on \\Root\\CCM\ namespace ,which do not exist on the problem client. I suspected this is…
One of most important and critically used feature in configuration manager 2012 is Software updates .It is always challenging and import task for any sccm administrator to achieve good patch compliance success rate within the given SLA(Service level agreement).Patch compliance success rate is depends mainly on heath of your SCCM clients and some times things may go wrong even though sccm client is healthy (able to receive applications/packages and performing inventory except patches). I have created lot of SSRS reports on software update compliance out of many,one of the widely used report is get the patch compliance status of software…
This blog post is quick one to check ,patch (BulletinID) is member of what software update package.You may be wondering why do you need to check since clients can connect to the DP and download the patches as long as these patches are available on the DP. Here is short background of it. Background :I was looking at patches released during February 2015 as part of patching process in Configuration manager 2012 console at customer.Configmgr site used by 2 different departments with different procedures (one dept manage X number of Clients and other manages Y number of clients) within the…
It has been almost month for now ,since the release of Configmgr 2012 R2 CU4.To know more about what CU4 includes,you can refer the KB3026739 article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3026739. Installation of Configmgr 2014 CU4 is similar to installation of previous Cumulative updates and it is straight forward. If you miss to install the Previous Cumulative updates,you can directly apply CU4 on Configmgr 2012 R2 . To check if CU4 installed ,you can check the Admin console version in the About System Center Configuration Manager dialog box and version should be 5.0.7958.1501. You can also check the registry key if CU level is…