Next WMUG NL Webinar announced with Johan Arwidmark
Last week we announced our next Windows Management User Group Netherlands Webinar. On May the 6th we have invited Enterprise Client Management MVPs Johan Arwidmark to talk with us about OSD – MDT 2013 & ConfigMgr 2012 R2 highlights. Johan Arwidmark is the Chief Technical Architect with Knowledge Factory. He is a consultant, author and…
Next WMUG NL meeting announced with Kent Agerlund and Brian Mason
Last week we announced our next Windows Management User Group Netherlands meeting. On May the 22nd we have invited Enterprise Client Management MVPs Kent Agerlund and Brian Mason to talk with us about Patch Management. Kent is joining us from Denmark to talk with us about third party software updates with System Center 2012 R2…
Implementing RBAC in System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager
This blogpost will detail my experiences and insights gained from implementing Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in a System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager environment. Overview: After installing Service Manager a couple of so called User Roles are created: Report User End User Read-Only Operator Activity Implementer Change Initiator Incident Resolver Problem Analyst Change Manager…
WMUG NL Meeting on subject Monitoring on the 12th of February
On Wednesday evening the 12th of February the Windows Management User Group Netherlands is organizing a new event. This time the subject throughout the evening will be monitoring, and for this we have found three excellent and knowledgeable speakers on the monitoring subject. We start with Stefan Stranger, who will talk about using PowerShell with…
Event: Dutch VMware User Group conference on March 6th
On the 6th of March, the Dutch VMware User Group, which is a subsidairy of the global VMware User Group organizes a conference in the Netherlands. The conference which starts at 8:30 and end at 17:30 will be held in Conferenciecentrum 1931, in Den Bosch. The keynote of the event will be hosted by Brian…
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…
Windows Management User Group Netherlands: Meeting on the 17th of September
On Tuesday evening the 17th of September the Windows Management User Group Netherlands organizes its 3rd meeting. The announcement, which is in Dutch can be found here. The subject of the evening is virtualization, and its hosted by PQR and we have three fantastic speakers for this evening, session summaries will be communicated soon: Program:…
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…
Introducing the Windows Management User Group Netherlands (WMUG NL)
Text below is in Dutch, together with Bob Cornelissen, Marnix Wolf and Peter Daalmans we created a new User Group called the Windows Management User Group Netherlands or in short WMUG.NL. With the user group we want to provide a platform for and by people involved with managing the Microsoft Windows platform. Our first session…
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…