Author: Eswar Koneti

Happy to say that ‘Microsoft Community Contributor Award’ is renewed for 3rd time in a Row since 2011 for my contribution towards Microsoft Technical forum on Configuration Manager. Dear Eswar, Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that your contributions to Microsoft online technical communities have been recognized with the Microsoft Community Contributor badge. This recognition is reserved for participants who made notable contributions in Microsoft online communities such as MSDN, TechNet and Microsoft Answers. The value of these online resources is greatly enhanced by participants like you who voluntarily contribute your time and energy to improve the online community…

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Microsoft announced the general availability of System Center 2012 SP1! While the RTM bits have been available for a few weeks already to TechNet/MSDN subscribers and volume licensing customers, today marks the broad availability of System Center 2012 SP1 to all customers. This includes All system center products includes Windows 8 RTM server. All products available to download from here I have extracted the link to download Orchestrator (SCORCH) 2012 SP1 RTM only and available from here If you are looking for Orchestrator(SCORCH)2012 SP1 VHD to save time in installation,there is VHD available here The System Center 2012 SP1 release…

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Yesterday Microsoft announced the general availability of System Center 2012 SP1! While the RTM bits have been available for a few weeks already to TechNet/MSDN subscribers and volume licensing customers, today marks the broad availability of System Center 2012 SP1 to all customers. This includes All system center products includes Windows 8 RTM server. All products available to download from here I have extracted the link to download SCCM Configmgr 2012 SP1 RTM only and available from here If you are looking for SCCM Configmgr 2012 SP1 VHD to save time in installation,there is VHD available here The System Center…

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From the release of Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 1(V.Next) to till now, we have seen so many bugs and also workarounds with the additions of new feature support. Below is the list of KB Articles and major fixes which are included in Configuration manager 2012 SP1. KB article number Description 2688247 SQL Server cumulative updates must be manually installed on secondary System Center 2012 Configuration Manager sites that use SQL Server Express 2688285 The Apply button is unavailable after clearing the "Enable PXE support for clients" option on a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Distribution Point 2688288 Changing the SQL…

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The Configmgr 2012  Package Conversion Manager(PCM) allows for converting packages and programs into applications and deployment types in configmgr 2012. There is a migration feature which is released with the Configuration Manager 2012 that allows packages to be migrated from 2007 to 2012. Once you have migrated your package objects and installed PCM it is just a matter of analyzing your packages to determine their readiness state and then converting the packages with the appropriate readiness state to applications. This release comes in 6 languages(Chinese,German,Japanese,English,French,Russian) and will work with both Configmgr 2012 and Configmgr 2012 SP1. Feature Summary: Analyzes Packages…

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The way SCCM Configmgr 2012 object information stored is changed from CM07 with respect to tables/views. In SCCM Configmgr 2012,Status of content stored in dbo.vSMS_DistributionDPStatus view.This view basically contains information about packageID,content status,objectTypeID like what type of package is it(boot image or package/Application etc) and status message ID. These status Message IDs and State Message IDs are translated here in more description way which will help you to take necessary action to fix them. What is status messages and State Messages : status messages provide information about component behavior and data flow, whereas state messages provide a snapshot of the…

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  Problem : Someone has Created package/Package’s (bulk) and distributed to sites/DP’s and these packages are in large size(more than 1GB). You get notification from network Team or other teams about bandwidth issues.You may have to identify what packages are in process of sending to DPs and should also check how much % leftover to take further actions.(Stop sending the packages now and initiate it later sometime during night). You can also Use Senderanalyzer http://eskonr.com/2012/09/troubleshooting-sccm-configmgr-packages/ tool but sometimes packageID will be blank. There are couple of logs and inbox folders to verify this. Lets look at logs file first and…

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Just saw an Email update from Myitforum list about the Release of Configuration Manager 2012 Automation RC is out now. Few months back,he announced the release of Configmgr 2012 Automation Beta here. To know more about what does the scripts do, http://wmug.co.uk/wmug/b/dotraphael/archive/2012/09/28/project-cm12-automation-beta-is-coming.aspx To Download the scripts http://cm12automation.codeplex.com/releases/view/100135 Raphael is working on uploading the videos on YouTube on this also he will update his blog page once everything is there... Hope you like it ! 🙂

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