Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we (the Windows Management User Group Netherlands) were forced to move our activities to virtual events, which we call WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinars. We hope you enjoyed your holiday even in these strange times, we from the WMUG_NL did and are looking forward to organize meetings again for our still growing…
Category: Configuration Manager
Announcing #WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinar 7 featuring Jörgen Nilsson
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we (the Windows Management User Group Netherlands) were forced to move our activities to virtual events, which we call WMUG_NL Tuesdays Webinars. For next week, June 9th we are proud to announce that Jörgen Nilsson, Principal Consultant at Onevinn in Sweden and Microsoft MVP Enterprise Mobility will talk about “MECM…
Speaking at Workplace Ninja Virtual Edition 2020
I’m very proud to announce that I will be speaking at the Workplace Ninja Virtual Edition 2020 event. The Workplace Ninja Virtual Edition 2020 event will take place from Tuesday 25th till Thursday 27th of August 2020 and will contain 45 sessions, spread across 3 days. Each day will provide 3 tracks, with 5 timeslots….
Distributing content to Distribution points and Distribution point groups in ConfigMgr 2012
With the release of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, Microsoft introduced the distribution point groups functionality. Distribution point groups provide a logical grouping of distribution points and collections for content distribution as described in the following Technet Article: Configuring Content Management in Configuration Manager, Create and Configure Distribution Point Groups A Distribution Point can be…
Configuring Group Policies for your ConfigMgr Servers
Disclaimer: Please test and validate this in your test environment, don’t take the information i provide for granted. This article describes a method to determine correct settings and doesn’t supply the answer to your specific environment ! When you are installing System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) in environments where group policies are used to control…
System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager prerequisite overview on Windows Server 2012 R2
Before you can start installing System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager in your environment you have to install the servers with an OS and configure its roles and features. While the Site System Installation Wizard now provides the option to configure some of the roles and features when not installed, I prefer to setup my…
Some things to consider before installing the ConfigMgr database on a SQL cluster
Note: I’ve already posted this article a while ago, but since my ex-employer decided to whipe the whole website without asking me if I would like a backup it got lost. Therefore i decided to place it here again. Note that this is still valid for ConfigMgr 2012 installations, i’ve modified the article to reflect…
The self signed certificate could not be created successfully error in the Create Site System Server Wizard
Today, a customer contacted me with a very strange issue while installing a new Site System Server in his System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager environment. While adding a new Site System (in this case a distribution point) on the Distribution Point page of the Create Site System Server Wizard the customer got the following…
How to create ConfigMgr 2012 boot images from scratch
Today, after installing a fresh System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 environment, we experienced that the Boot images for both 32- and 64-bit were not created. The reason for this is already widely known, because it had to do with the virus scanner which was active at time of installation. There are already…
Role Based Access Control in ConfigMgr 2012: Part 4 Outcome
In the first part of this series I outlined what Microsoft changed in ConfigMgr 2012 in order to introduce Role Based Access Control. In the second part I outlined a possible scenario and started building the scenario. In the third part we mapped the business roles to the ConfigMgr roles and configured them in the…
Role Based Access Control in ConfigMgr 2012: Part 3 Mapping OpCo roles to ConfigMgr roles
In the first part of this series I outlined what Microsoft changed in ConfigMgr 2012 in order to introduce Role Based Access Control. In the second part I outlined a possible scenario and started building the scenario up to the point where the OpCo roles will be mapped to the ConfigMgr roles, this post will…
Role Based Access Control in ConfigMgr 2012: Part 2 Scenario
In the previous post I introduced Role Based Access Control in ConfigMgr 2012 as the new way to delegate administrative access to a ConfigMgr hierarchy. In this post I’m going to walk you through a scenario and show you how we can delegate the access in order to meet the requirements. The Scenario: The Customer…
Role Based Access Control in ConfigMgr 2012: Part 1 – Introduction
One of the reasons to install multiple primary sites in a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 hierarchy often was due to the fact that Administrative access had to be separated between different departments within a company. Within large companies mostly a Central Primary Site would be installed, not servicing any clients, and under that Central…
Techdays NL 2013: ConfigMgr 2012: Notes from the field
During Techdays, the annual event organized by Microsoft in the Netherlands, i had the honor of presenting a session together with Peter Daalmans, Microsoft MVP on ConfigMgr. Our session, named ConfigMgr 2012: Notes from the field discussed what’s new in both ConfigMgr 2012 and ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 and included our best practices and tips &…
Beware when installing ConfigMgr SP1 when still using vSphere 4 or running other platforms not supporting Windows 8 – UPDATED
Update: Microsoft has released CU2 for Configuration Manager 2012 Service Pack 1, allowing you to use Boot images based on Windows 7 from the WAIK again (with some contstraints but workable). See the KB 2854009 article for more information. See this article written by Brandon Linton from Microsoft for more information on how to import your…