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Got a call from a client today who was concerned, because they were deploying SCEP, but it was not removing Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.0 or 12.1... At the time of writing, only certain products are uninstalled http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff823900.aspx The client installation checks for and uninstalls the following existing antimalware clients: Symantec Endpoint Protection version 11 Symantec…
Continue readinghttp://www.bink.nu/windows-8-has-reached-the-rtm-milestone I've made the (fair) assumption that server will become available at the same time as the client. Im not convinced that many people (in the corporate space) actually care about Win 8.... part of that is because Win7 is a bloody good OS.... if Win-7-to-go existed... i think there would be even less interest…
Continue readingLike some of these features coming up.... Download MDT 2012 Update 1 Beta 1 now! [ http://connect.microsoft.com/site14/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=8689] Download the latest release to stay up-to-date on your deployment needs. New features and enhancements make large-scale desktop and server deployments smoother than ever! This release expands your deployment capabilities with support for the latest software releases, including…
Continue readingSo we've done a few production SCCM 2012 design/installs now.... and the bit im most impressed with (apart from the general speed and new management UI) is SCEP (System Centre Endpoint Protection) 2012. It is just so incredibly easy (as it should be) to deploy clients, check on status, force scans, force definition updates and…
Continue readinghttp://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=25175 not much more to say on this really :-)
Continue readingAfter going through this with a client the other day, i thought it might make a good post. So - you have made up your Windows 7 SOE using SCCM OSD and its all working well on virtuals - and now it comes time to start adding support for all the various makes and models…
Continue readingSo i grabbed the SC 2012 RC suite last night... tried to install using the unified installer, as megh - a quick and easy way of getting all the products on at once for a test enviornment - sounds good to me. The local MS guys mentioned this to me a few weeks ago…
Continue readingSystem Centre 2012 RC's - cool.... but FFS - give the private cloud shit a rest. Giving hosted services another name doesnt change them from being hosted services.... not sure who's worse, the marketers that make this shit up or the CIO's that fall for it. (similar to who's worse, the spammers, or the people…
Continue readinghttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh505660.aspx yes, its exciting for nerdy people - the rest of you - if your not nerdy - how the fuck did you get to this blog ? Of most interest to me (like many) SCCM 2012 RC... but im interested in having a play withy orchestrator too....
Continue readingAn employee passed this onto me today.... a good article on testing SCCM packages (which seems to be a struggle for some clients) http://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/archive/2011/10/13/how-to-quickly-and-easily-test-your-configmgr-packages.aspx
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