Author: Eswar Koneti

Summary: In this post, Chris focused on helping many of us get started in testing your environment by not requiring you to do it against your packages/programs.   Instead, Chris provided you with files you can use to test PCM and get familiar with it.  This will allow you to go through the various scenarios that PCM solves for you. In the past few months, we’ve received a lot of requests to help many of you focus on “testing” the new Package Conversion Manager (PCM) that is available in the Microsoft Download Center.  It is rather trivial to actually download PCM…

Raphael Finally released beta Version of his most loving project which is called CM12 Automation using scripts. What it Does basically ? Prepare Active Directory Install the Prerequisites for Configuration Manager 2012 like IIS,SQL etc. Install SCCM Site with MDT Integrated Install Site Roles More information about this project ,Feed back and downloads refer http://cm12automation.codeplex.com/ How to use this and Feedback http://wmug.co.uk/wmug/b/dotraphael/archive/2012/09/28/project-cm12-automation-beta-is-coming.aspx You can also email directly to Raphael @ raphael@rflsystems.co.uk Thanks to Raphael for getting this done !

Prerequisites for the installation of SCCM 2012 SP1 Beta Secondary Site which I noted when installing Some Key Points about Secondary Site: Each secondary site can support communications from up to 5,000 clients when you use a secondary site server computer with the recommended hardware and that has a fast and reliable network connection to its primary parent site. A secondary site might be able to support communications from additional clients when its hardware configuration exceeds the recommended hardware configuration. Each secondary site supports a single management point that must be installed on the secondary site server. The secondary site…

Today I was looking at Packages to see how many packages are created without any distribution Points added. This might help you in identifying whether these packages are really needed to be in SCCM or archive them. This below report will help you in achieving this. select PackageID,Name,Version,SourceDate from v_Package where PackageID not in (select packageid from v_PackageStatusDistPointsSumm) Note : Some packages might use just command line (script based) and they do not have any distribution Points . Double Verify them before you take any action)

We all know about what is SCCM client center tool and what it does. Roger Zander who has developed this application (SCCM Client Center) basically to troubleshoot SMS/SCCM 2007 Client related Issues.This also provides lot many features to troubleshoot all kind sccm client related issues more http://sccmcat.codeplex.com/. Download Client center Tool for Configuration manager 2007 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/smsclictr/ Download download Client center Tool for Configuration manager 2012 http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rzander/archive/2012/05/22/client-center-for-configuration-manager-2012.aspx How do you run this tool with different user if logged in account do not have enough rights? You can run this tool by holding alt+Shift to get run as different user but…

Unlike VMware WorkStation or Virtual PC(Shared folders) ,Hyper-v do not have Easy way to share Host Machine Shared Folders unless you do some Configuration . In this post,will go through how to Access Your Host shared folders(Physical Machine) from your Guest OS (Hyper-v) Machines and Vice Versa (Guest to Host). I am running Hyper-V on my Windows 8 machine and it is Great. After you install Hyper-V,You must have Created Internal Virtual Switch Via Virtual Switch Manager to be used only for Your Lab computers. If you want to have Internet connection on Lab machines ,you can add one more…

Background info about Replication in SCCM 2012 SP1 : In SCCM 2012 SP1,each site communicates with its parent site and its direct child sites by using two data transfer methods: file-based replication and database replication unlike SCCM 2007. Note: Address is renamed to File replication in SCCM 2012 SP1 Beta. Secondary sites not only communicate to their parent primary sites by using both data transfer methods, but can also communicate with other secondary sites by using file-based replication to route content to remote network locations. File Based Replication happen with applications and packages that you want to deploy to distribution points…

  Software update point Role will fail to Install if you just install WSUS 3.0 SP2 without 2 patches. The minimum Supported Version for Software update Point Role is Min WSUS 3.0 SP2+KB2720211+KB2734608