9th May 2012Upcoming System Center 2012 Configuration Manager book
Today I just finished typing the last word in my upcoming book titled System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Mastering the Fundamentals. The book is published by Deploymentartist.com and will be available on Amazon from Mid-June. The book will also be available for Kindle a few weeks later. Once the book is published we will also [...]
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24th April 2012Coretech Shutdown utility 0.9 is ready for download
An updated version of our Coretech Shutdown utility is ready for Download For more information about the utility and how to use it with ConfigMgr refer to this post Change list Bug Fixes: Fixed problem, with program not ending in shutdown/restart/logoff, when using both the /f and /c switch. Additions: Added Localization, the program will [...]
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24th April 2012MMS 2012– Simplify your Deployments
Last week @MMS 2012 Chris Nackers and I had a session on how to review and simplify ConfigMgr 2007 deployments. We have received a lot of positive feedback after the session – thanks for that. Scripts and utilities that we demonstrated Script to remove expired updates from you distribution points and update packages Example used [...]
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24th April 2012Mastering Configuration Mananager 2012 book released
Our book Mastering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is avilable from Amazon . Mastering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager will help you design, plan and implement Configuration Manager 2012. You’ll find a lot of background information about CM12 and also best practices on how to implement the different features. Sample chapters Mastering System Center 2012 [...]
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6th April 2012Error installing the Application web catalog
Just ran into an error this morning while installing the Application Web Catalog role on my ConfigMgr 2012 server. When trying to log on to the catalog I got an IIS error related. I look into the SMSPortalWebSetup.log file on the site server and noticed this Error: IIS Asp.Net is not registered To fix the [...]
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1st April 2012Awarded Configuration Manager 2012 MVP
This Sunday is a great day. Sitting in my hotel room in Zürich with a beautiful mountain view while writing on my upcoming book (title is System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Mastering the fundamentals) and in ticks this mail in my inbox: Dear Kent Agerlund, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2012 [...]
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29th March 2012Sample chapters from the Mastering Configuration Manager 2012 book
The book is almost ready to be shipped from Amazon. Until that happens you can get a sneak preview of the book by downloading two of the sample chapters. My fellow author Peter Daalmaans has uploaded two chapters ready for download. Chapter 3 Migrating from Configuration Manager 2007 Chapter 7 Application Deployment For those who [...]
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20th March 2012Enabling Email approvals for your requested applications in Configuration Manager 2012
By default application approvals must be done from within the ConfigMgr 2012 administrator console. If you have Service Manager 2012 you can use that to implement an approval process. For those of you who do not (yet) have Service Manager here is a tool that you can use. The solution consists of a Website and [...]
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13th March 2012Sessions @MMS 2012 in Las Vegas
MMS 2012 is sold out (again) and just around the corner. I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be hosting a few sessions this year. I hope to see as many as you in those session as possible. Break out sesions CD-B351 A ConfigMgr. 2007 R3: Review and Simplify Your Deployments Join Kent Agerlund and Michael [...]
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26th February 2012Global conditions in ConfigMgr 2012
One of the very need features in the new Application model is Global conditions. A Global condition is a requirement rule that is evaluated in real time by the client. The client will only start downloading the application if the global condition is true. ConfigMgr. 2012 ships with several global conditions like memory, operating system, [...]
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