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using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager – Part 2. Install the primary server – P01

In Part 1 of this series we created our new LAB, we got the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager ISO and extracted it, then copied it to our Active Directory server. We then created the System Management container in AD, … Continue reading

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ConfigMgr 2012 Toolkit and other goodies

if you are looking for the Configuration Manager 2012 Toolkit you can download it from here, note that the Package Conversion Manager and Physical to virtual tools are also listed there as described below:- Package Conversion Manager (PCM) The Microsoft … Continue reading

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using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager – Part 1. Installation – CAS

Introduction System Center 2012 Configuration Manager was released to General Availability (GA) April 17th, 2012 at MMS 2012. If you’ve been following my previous series of Step by Step guides on System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (from Beta 1 through … Continue reading

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In memory of Michael Petersen

It’s with sadness that I post this post as a good friend of mine recently passed away, a young man with a young child and a very bright future ahead of him. While catching up on the MMS news last … Continue reading

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MMS 2012 videos, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to download them all automagically

if you’d like to watch the MMS 2012 videos offline then theres a nice powershell script available from Stefan Roth here. download the script, checkout the settings.txt file and exclude any sessions you don’t want (he includes a PDF linking … Continue reading

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System Center 2012 General Availability

System Center 2012 was released was released yesterday and as a result all System Center 2012 products are available now! You can read more about the Microsoft Private Cloud here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/new.aspx and you can download the Microsoft Private cloud Evaluation … Continue reading

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using Configuration Manager 2012 – The CM12 Guides in PDF and WORD format

hi guys, i know many people have requested to be able to download the guides here in PDF or Word DOC format so with help from a reader (Brian Thorp) we have just that ! now you can download the … Continue reading

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how can I determine if the Prepare disc for BitLocker Partition creation was successful ?

sooner or later you’ll need to know if the creation of the BitLocker Partition was successful, this script will aid you in doing so, simply place it in a sub-folder of your MDT Toolkit Files scripts folder and update that … Continue reading

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How can I pause BitLocker Encryption ?

if you are working on a computer that has BitLocker enabled and it’s just been deployed, the first 90 minutes or so the computer will be busy Encrypting the drive and therefore will be pretty slow to use. If you … Continue reading

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ConfigMgr 2012 Exam

This is an extremely short post to remind you that the ConfigMgr 2012 exam is now publicly available, it’s due to be ready April 16th according to the website, if you’ve been following my Step-by-Step ConfigMgr 2012 guides you’ll certainly … Continue reading

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Configuration Manager 2012 Reports show No Items Found

I had this problem today and thought I’d blog it as someone else will have the same problem someday. I wanted to view some  built in reports but when I clicked on Monitoring, Reporting, Reports it showed No Items found. … Continue reading

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using SCCM 2012 RC in a LAB – Part 18. Deploying a UDI Client Task Sequence with MDT 2012 RC1 integrated in Configuration Manager 2012

In Part 1 of this series we got our AD and SCCM servers ready, and then we installed System Center 2012 Configuration Manager as a standalone Primary site. In Part 2 we configured the SCCM server further by adding some … Continue reading

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using SCCM 2012 RC in a LAB – Part 17. Using MDT 2012 RC1 within Configuration Manager 2012

In Part 1 of this series we got our AD and SCCM servers ready, and then we installed System Center 2012 Configuration Manager as a standalone Primary site. In Part 2 we configured the SCCM server further by adding some … Continue reading

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about to install Configuration Manager 2012 – check your SQL collation first !

If you are planning on installing Configuration Manager 2012 then before you do you need to be sure that your SQL collation is set to SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. You can store any language data in any collation.  All the collation does is … Continue reading

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Customising Windows 7 deployments – Part 6. Adding multiple keyboard layouts and multiple languages

This post is an addition to Part 4 where we installed Language packs on a one-by-one basis (i.e. one language pack selected, one installed, one keyboard layout selected, one installed). What if you want to install multiple Language packs and … Continue reading

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