Author: Eswar Koneti

Few days ago have install Core Hyper-V server 2008 R2 on Desktop machine which has around 8 GB of RAM and assigned IP Address for it through DHCP. Server is running fine with hyper-V manager but when I try to connect to it from another machine as it is CORE and no console based (less resources used by this) ,it gives me error “You do not have the required permission to complete this task. Contact the administrator of the authorization policy for the computer” John has nice post on this here . Below are the steps what I have performed…

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earlier I posted entry to list all virtual computers http://eskonr.com/2011/04/sccm-collection-for-virtual-or-physical-computers/ this collection gives you all computers that are Physical (running as Host) not Virtual… select SMS_R_System.ResourceId, SMS_R_System.ResourceType, SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_R_System.SMSUniqueIdentifier, SMS_R_System.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup, SMS_R_System.Client from  SMS_R_System Where SMS_R_System.ResourceId not in (select SMS_R_System.ResourceId from  SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM on SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.Model like "%Virtual%") and SMS_R_System.Client is not null

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We are announcing support changes for the following releases. Please look for these changes to be reflected in the Supported Configuration pages within a few months. System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 and R3 support Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (upgrade): System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 and System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 now support upgrading an existing site database to Microsoft SQL Server 2012.  The Reporting Services Point site system and Client Status Reporting feature in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 are also supported with SQL Server 2012. To use SQL Server 2012 for the site database, you…

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collection to get all 32 Bit and 64 Bit servers.   select SMS_R_System.ResourceId, SMS_R_System.ResourceType, SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_R_System.SMSUniqueIdentifier, SMS_R_System.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup, SMS_R_System.Client from  SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM on SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId inner join SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM on SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.ResourceId = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where (SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.SystemType = "x64-based PC" or SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.SystemType = "X86-based PC") and SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.Caption = "Microsoft Windows Server%" Reference Via http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgradminconsole/thread/ee47ec21-b113-4aed-956d-36205b619091

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In my Recent post,I posted how to enable .net framework feature in windows 7 http://eskonr.com/2012/04/enable-net-framework-3-5-1-feature-in-windows-7/ but need to enable sub functions in it they are Windows communication foundation features. If you try to add these two features in additions to .net framework using DISM,it doesn’t work and you will get error :50 in execmgr.log due to missing elements required for  HTTP Activation. I tried enabling these features using command line manually with : Dism.exe /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /FeatureName:WCF-HTTP-Activation /FeatureName:WCF-NonHTTP-Activation It failed with error code 50 saying  The operation completed but WCF-HTTP-Activation feature was not enabled. Ensure that the following parent…

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  In ConfigMgr 2007, we now have several different types of packages, which can make it difficult to find a specific package which is referenced by a task sequence.  Here are a couple of tips to help resolve package references: If you select your task sequence in the Admin UI and select the "References" tab on the preview pane you will get a list of all packages that the task sequence references (including the type and version fields which can be used to find them). You can use the "Packages referenced by a specific task sequence" report to get the…

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Enabling the .Net framework feature in windows 7 can be done using manually but if you want to do this on all clients ,how do you manage it ? Script Based using OCsetup ? or enabling this feature in Image ? or PowerShell script ? I go with DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management)tool to enable this feature. Download and install WAIK to get DISM tool http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=10333 Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) is a command-line tool used to service Windows® images offline before deployment. You can use it to install, uninstall, configure, and update Windows features, packages, drivers, and…

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