Author: Eswar Koneti

Microsoft has released an update for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2). This article includes information about the contents of the update and how to obtain the update. Issues that are fixed : This update lets servers that are running Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 SP2 provide updates to computers that are running Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012. This update fixes the following issues: Installation of update 2720211 may fail if Service Pack 2 was previously uninstalled and then reinstalled. After you install update 2720221, health monitoring may fail if the WSUS server is…

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Neil Peterson blogged about Cross Forest Support in #SCCM / #Configmgr 2012 into 4 series of guides and they are listed below. Introduction - Welcome to the last in this series of four articles examining cross forest support in 2012 Configuration Manager.  In the previous three postings I have examined configuration options for client management across a non-trusted forest. To recap, the following scenarios or configurations have been discussed. Scenario 1 – Simple management of a small amount of know clients residing in a non-trusted forest. Scenario 2 – More complex management of a larger number of unknown clients residing…

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Michael Niehaus Blogged nice post on configuring SCCM 2012 Console with MDT automatically. Here is what it says .. As part of the MDT installation process, you need to run the “Configure ConfgMgr Integration” wizard to add the MDT components into the ConfigMgr console and database.  But what if you want to automate that process?  Fortunately, that’s pretty easy to do using PowerShell, as the integration process really just copies some files around. See below for the attached PowerShell script, which performs the following tasks: Locates the MDT installation directory. Attempts to find the ConfigMgr 2007 console’s installation directory.  If…

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SCCM 2012 is now configured up to 20 Site roles which you can install/Configure on single machine or distribute to different machines for load balancing . Site server Site Database Server Site system Application Catalog Web Service Point Application Catalog Website Point Asset Intelligence Synchronization Point Component server Distribution Point Endpoint protection Point Enrollment Point Enrollment Proxy Point Fallback status Point Management Point Mobile Device Management Point Out of band service Point Reporting services Point software update point State Migration Point System health Validator Point

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You have Username but unsure what is their computer name where they logged into to track it(this all happens if and only if sccm client is healthy else you see old information). This report gives you all the machines name with your supplied user names if you have bulk users to know all . Create report with below SQL code and Run Other SCCM reports based on last logged on user names http://eskonr.com/2011/03/sccm-report-for-computers-with-last-logged-on-user-from-collection/ http://eskonr.com/2011/03/sccm-report-to-list-all-computers-based-on-last-logged-on-user-name-from-collection/ SELECT  GS.Name0, GS.UserName0, WS.LastHWScan, GS.Domain0, OS.Caption0, SYS.SystemRole0 FROM v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM GS, v_GS_OPERATING_SYSTEM OS, v_GS_SYSTEM SYS, v_GS_WORKSTATION_STATUS WS WHERE GS.ResourceID = SYS.ResourceID AND WS.ResourceID = GS.ResourceID AND OS.ResourceID…

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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 to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.  For desktop migrations, customer are usually happy to take all updates or the majority of updates and just start fresh.  For servers, they want to be sure that they only thing they pull across is whatever was approved by…

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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 still not that difficult until you know the logic to achieve the results. In this post, i wanted to bring up, how the SQL syntax join's will help you to achieve the desired results. You basically need to understand how these joins works. Joins? In…

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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 SLUI.EXE 3 and press Enter Step 3: Type your MAK key in and click "Activate"

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