Author: Eswar Koneti

MMS 2013 is getting nearer , (Apr 4-Apr 8) with loads of technical sessions on newly released products with hands on lab. More info here From Apr 4-8,total of 300+ sessions happening on various technologies . Many folks who works on Configuration manager like me, look for what content catalog. Here is the pdf file listing out all SCCM 2012 related stuff which might help you to follow up . download MMS 2013 SCCM 2012 SP1 Content Catalog These configuration manager Sessions will generally be available for streaming around 24 hours after the session is complete. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MMS/2013?sort=sequential&direction=desc&term=Configuration%20Manager How to participate in…

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If you are planning to migrate your SCCM 2007 environment to SCCM 2012,you may have to think about your packages,collections,OSD and other stuff. you cannot migrate all collections from SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012.Couple of things to note before you migrate them. Points to note  on collection migration: 1. Collection can contain only either devices or users but not both. 2.  Every collection must have Limitation. 3.   Sub collections are no longer exists instead you have folders. blogged couple of posts on archiving/removing packages not been used for X days that will help you to not migrate them to…

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How to add link URL or shortcut file to users desktop profile ? Easiest way to accomplish this task is with GPO(Group policy Object). If you want to accomplish this task using Configuration manager(SCCM),you can create simple VB script that does this job. Option Explicit dim path path=CreateObject("WScript.Shell").ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%UserProfile%\desktop") dim objFSO set objFSO=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") If objFSO.FileExists(path & ("\eskonr.url")) = False Then objFSO.CopyFile "\\servername\folder name\eskonr.url", path & "\" end if Full Details http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrswdist/thread/ba1647a1-0385-48a9-9e83-1fc5daa00976/#e9d4f330-500e-45db-b3e1-5e3954f50ea4

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This is Continuation to previous post package archival process.up on the query results,I would not delete the packages from console directly rather i delete them from its assigned Distribution points and move them to Archive folder and let be there for sometime until for sometime incase if it is required. If you have large number of packages,you may find difficult in moving the packages by identifying where they reside (if you have subfolders).If you have less packages <10,you may use the report to know the root path of the package  and then right click on the package Move to archive…

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Long ago ,written SCCM report to list packages not used for 6 months as part of Package Archival process http://eskonr.com/2012/11/sccm-configmgr-package-archival-process-cleanup-activity/ .This report tells you to take further action to clean or move to Archive folder to wait for some more months before it goes for Deletion. What next ? Delete these packages from Assigned DPs to get some disk space ? You may find several scripts to do this task on the internet but, i  find this is easy for me to get this activity done. Identify list of package which you want to remove ,pipe them to notepad .You…

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Old post but useful to share from J.C.HornBeck .We all know there are some hidden files(they are kind of secret files) which are available since Since Many years( I would think from SMS 2003 or may be from 2.0) in order to activate or deactivate some features in SMS/SCCM 2007 /SCCM 2012 (now) on client side or server side, such as preventing Software Inventory for a particular folder or preventing the installation of ConfigMgr files on a machine. Here’s some information on some of those files and how you might use them to control your Configuration Manager environment. The files…

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SCCM Configmgr 2012 SP1 is already out to All Customers (General Available) brining several cool features ,several fixes, improvements. However, due to a recent problem (Installation error 0x800b0101 and binary installation Endpoint Protection for Linux and iOS.) on this component,Microsoft just review the ISO SCCM 2012 SP1 and launched it again, duly corrected. So if you downloaded the ISO before the day 25.01.2013,It would be recommend to download again. If you already in Production with Configmgr 2012 SP1 media released before the date,you should have already applied the fix to correct the issue and there is no need to Deploy…

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Configuration Manager 2007 gives you an option to create New folder (kind of Custom reports folder ) with New Category to create your Own reports what you required But in Configuration Manager 2012,i don't see way to create New folder to create all the custom reports for your reference. Creation of Custom folder is not available in configuration Manager 2012 ,the only option left out is to go with Category . How do you create New Category ? If you right click on reports node from Configuration Console,you don't get such option to create one. You will have to go with…

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