Author: Eswar Koneti

Have been using nice SCCM 2007 right click tools by Rick Houchins available from http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rhouchins/archive/2008/04/09/sccm-right-click-tools.aspx that will help troubleshooting sccm clients and make them healthy with minimal steps… and now Configuration manager 2012 is out so we need SCCM 2012 right click tools to get the job Done easily for us… Thanks to Ryan Ephgrave ,Dan Ireland and Rich Houchins Here you go with SCCM 2012 Right click Tools http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Right-Click-Tools.zip Note: Ensure you install the cmd file with admin rights(run the cmd with administrator) else files will not be copied to C:\program files When you right click on a device,…

Today was going with Software Update point Role in my Primary site and found role is missing under “Add site system roles” . Did i Miss something here ? In  SCCM 2007,you will see software update point once you are done with installation of Primary or Child sites(Refer this what i mean Primary Child here http://eskonr.com/2012/04/notes-on-sccm-2012-hierarchy-sites-centralprimary-and-secondary-sites/) In SCCM 2012 , If you have Central Administration site (CAS) Hierarchy,you must configure Software Update Role in CAS and then it replicates the configuration file to all its child sites .once the are complied by Despooler successfully ,you can see Software Update Point…

  The Application Approval Workflow (AAW) extends your application approval process. End users can easily request applications on-demand directly through the Configuration Manager Application Catalog or via redirection from the Service Manager Self-Service Portal. Application requests requiring approval are routed to Service Manager where custom approver lists and activities can be configured based on user and application properties. AAW uses System Center 2012 - Orchestrator between Configuration Manager and Service Manager to sync Configuration Manager applications, leverage Service Manager workflows, and post the approval status back to Configuration Manager. We created wizards in Service Manager to configure custom service request…

The ConfigMgr 2012 Package Conversion Manager (PCM) tool allows administrators to convert their legacy SCCM 2007 packages and programs into the new ConfigMgr 2012 Application and Deployment Types. This applies for all legacy packages apart from virtual APP-V packages that will automatically be converted to the new application model during the migration process. Once your legacy packages have been migrated and you have installed the Package Conversion Manager utility, then it is just a matter of analysing your packages in order to determine which readiness state it is in, and then converting your packages. There are still a number of…

Mike has blogged nice post on on http://blogs.technet.com/b/michaelgriswold/archive/2012/04/27/how-do-i-get-the-right-permissions-in-configmgr-2012.aspx how RBA works Role and Scope… If you are new to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and learning the new Role Based Authentication (RBA) model you may initially grasp the concept that you grant a user a role and scope to define their security access.  I find this gets people a little confused some times.  The Role is the set of abilities a user is given. To compare to some thing people are more familiar with, Administrator role means you can do things in AD like crate accounts, stop services, etc.  That’s…

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…

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

A month ago or so ,we had SCCM 2012 Beta exam (#70-243 ) Released in other countries(not in india) but now SCCM 2012 is available in all prometric centers to take up the exam. Here is the course content for it http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?id=70-243#tab1