SC 2012 R2 now on technet downloads...
day early :-)
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SCCM 2012 SP1 installation reboot behaviour on 3010 return code
Recently, we had a situation where we deployed a small client via SCCM 2012 SP1. All tested fine and the pilot group appeared fine - but upon deploying the client widely, the customers helpdesk started getting calls about a reboot message popping up. Sure enough, the msi has a /noreboot switch and wasn't causing a…
Continue readingSCCM 2012 reference build updates fail due to proxy error when WPAD in use
Installing windows updates into a reference build has long caused hassles for less experienced SCCM admins... in general, as long as you cover the following, it will work: - Ensure there is an IP boundary which covers the VLAN the reference machine is on - Ensure the SMSMP client property is specified (or if you…
Continue readingMS monitoring agent 2013
http://m.windowsitpro.com/operations-manager/microsoft-releases-monitoring-agent-works-or-without-operations-manager Interesting approach from MS, releasing a SCOM compatible agent that can work either with SCOM or without. Every now and again, MS do something that makes sense..... it can be a bit of a shock.... especially at the moment.
Continue readingVMXNet3 drives for PE
So I imagine most of you do your reference builds (and test builds) in virtual machines..... if your running Hyper-V - this "just works"..... Today I had a client who mandated the use of VMXNet3 in their VMware 5.1 environment, instead of E1000 - which we usually ask for (and get) - "that's fine, ill…
Continue readingHyperV in 2012 R2
Link to Bink article... - http://www.bink.nu/what’s-new-for-hyper-v-in-windows-sever-2012-r2 Some of the stuff in there looks pretty cool.... hopefully the release of VMM2012 R2 will follow this a bit quicker than it did for 2012 Hyper-V.
Continue readingSCCM – Install at logoff (or similar)
A few times over my career, ive run into certain situations where an application is always running and does not have a nice method of shutting itself down in order to update or install. An example of this is a data terminal in a police car, or a kiosk run by a government department.... both…
Continue readingSCOM 2012 RTM wont upgrade to SP1
When upgrading a clients SCOM 2012 to SCOM 2012 SP1, I was getting the incredibly frustrating error "Host not found", followed by A bunch of googling came up with info that didn't help resolve the issue.... The event logs were fine.... so, due to the error "host not found" - I put wireshark on there…
Continue readingOSD driver good practice – updated for 2012
http://hayesjupe.wordpress.com/sccm-2012-osd-driver-good-practice/
Continue readingSystem Centre 2012 SP1
Missed this.... doesn't look like its on the public MS site as yet - but noticed that the entire system centre range with SP1 is available on TechNet downloads.... and looks like it has been since the 20/12/2012.... not sure if there is meant to be a stand-alone version of SP1 - but I would…
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