Monthly Archives: May 2011

Adding a hotfix to the Setup Windows and Configmgr step in a task sequence

Step 1. Download the Hotfix In this example we’ll be applying the following hotfix, KB2509007 (Task sequence that installs many updates stops responding on a System) and as always we need to get the hotfix from Microsoft here. The following … Continue reading

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using vNext beta2 in a LAB – Part 2. Configuration configuring SCCM 2012 beta 2

In Part 1. of this series we Installed vNext, now we will start to configure it. Quote In Configuration Manager 2012, a boundary is a network location that can contain one or more devices that you want to manage. Boundaries … Continue reading

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Mastering Windows 7 Deployment – a book worth reading :)

I’ve just finished reading a great new book called Mastering Windows 7 Deployment from Sybex by Aidan Finn [MVP] (and Darril Gibson and Kenneth van Surksum [MVP]). The book is 482 pages and well worth reading from start to finish … Continue reading

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How can I force a Site to sync from it’s parent site

While troubleshooting some weird site replication issues today it was decided that we needed to force a sync of our SCCM 2007 site with it’s parent as the child primary was missing some OSD advertisements. So after some research the … Continue reading

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using vNext beta2 in a LAB – Part 1. Installation

If you’ve been following my previous series of guides on Vnext, then you’ll know where this is going, we are going to install vNext beta 2 from scratch and configure it, use it, test it. Step 1. Create the Lab … Continue reading

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