29th December 2011Configuration Manager 2012 training from Microsoft
The follwing two Configuration Manager 2012 courses will be published by Microsoft next year: Course 10747A: Administering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager For a complete description of the course: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/course.aspx?ID=10747a Course 10748A: Deploying System Center 2012 Configuration Manager For a complete description of the course: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/course.aspx?ID=10748a Please note that the courses have not been released [...]
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29th October 2011How to create a context menu for SMS Client Center in the Configuration Manager 2007 console
If you have ever worked with Configuration Manager 2007 you properly know about the great freeware tool called SMS Client Center created by Roger Zander. The latest version of SMS Client Center can be downloaded from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smsclictr/files/SCCM%20Client%20Center/ You install the tool locally on your computer and it does not require the installation of the [...]
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21st October 2011The complete Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 installation and configuration guide
Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (FEP 2010) allows you to consolidate desktop security and management in a single solution, because it is built on System Center Configuration Manager 2007. That means in many cases you can use your existing client management infrastructure to deploy and manage your endpoint protection. My colleague Kent Agerlund and I have [...]
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16th September 2011Enabling Hyper-V in Windows 8 Preview
Microsofts virtualization platform Hyper-V is now included in Windows 8. The requirements are as follows: Windows 8 64 bit version At least 4 GB of ram An x64-based processor Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) Hardware-assisted virtualization: Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) or AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) technology. Hardware-enforced Data Execution Prevention (DEP): Intel XD bit (execute [...]
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14th September 2011Installing Windows 8 Developer Preview in a virtualization environment
Now that Microsoft have made Windows 8 preview availible you are properly eager giving it a test run and in the age of virtualization you are properly going to install it in a virtual machine. To save you some despair I will outline which virtualization environments that you can use to test run Windows 8 [...]
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14th September 2011Windows 8 Developer Preview is ready for download
Microsoft has made Windows 8 Developer Preview availible for download. You can get the 32 and 64 bit version both with or without the developer tools, which consists of: Windows SDK for Metro style apps Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview 28 Metro style apps including [...]
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8th July 2011Migrating Bitlocker enabled machines to another domain
In the SCCM Admins guide to preparing your environment for Bitlocker Drive Encryption post series, I walked you through how to prepare your environment for Bitlocker in order to enable the backup of the Bitlocker recovery password and the TPM owner password hash, to Active Directory. But what will happen if: 1. You join a [...]
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9th June 2011SCCM Admins guide to preparing your environment for Bitlocker Drive Encryption – part 3
In part 1 and Part 2, I talked about the requirements for Bitlocker and walked you through how to extend your Active Directory Schema if you run Windows Server 2003 SP1/SP2 Windows Server 2003 R2 domain controllers. We then sat the permission so that a Windows 7 machine was able to write its own TPM [...]
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29th May 2011Links and notes from MOC 6451 and introduction to App-V (Norway)
SCCM Right Click Tools http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rhouchins/archive/2008/04/09/sccm-right-click-tools.aspx System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Toolkit v2 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5a47b972-95d2-46b1-ab14-5d0cbce54eb8 SMS Client Center http://sourceforge.net/projects/smsclictr/ Creating Configuration Manager Reports Part 1: http://blog.coretech.dk/confmgr07/config-mgr-inventory-and-reporting/creating-configuration-manager-2007-reports/ Part 2: http://blog.coretech.dk/confmgr07/config-mgr-inventory-and-reporting/creating-configuration-manager-2007-reports-part-ii-creating-the-first-reports/ Creating Custom Reports by Using Configuration Manager 2007 SQL Views http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=87BBE64E-5439-4FC8-BECC-DEB372A40F4A&displaylang=en Read the blog at Coretech.dk for information about System Center, deployment and scripting http://blog.coretech.dk/ Microsoft System Center [...]
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16th May 2011SCCM Admins guide to preparing your environment for Bitlocker Drive Encryption – part 2
In part 1, I talked about the requirements for Bitlocker and showed you how to extend your Active Directory Schema if you run Windows Server 2003 SP1/SP2 Windows Server 2003 R2 domain controllers. We then sat the permission so that a Windows 7 machine was able to write its own TPM owner password to Active [...]
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