Error installing Lync 2010
Last Friday I had the pleasure of being contacted by a customer who was in the middle of a Lync 2010 deployment. The scenario: Windows XP, Windows 7×86 & Windows 7×64 client. Some computer do already have Office Communicator 2007 installed which must be uninstalled. Solution, creating a task sequence: Conditions to only unstall Communicator [...]
Category: Software distribution, Troubleshooting | 4 Comments
Understanding the new content library store in 5 minutes
Content management has somewhat been completely rewritten for this version and do require “a little getting used to”. Below are some of the changes related to the Content Library but first a quick recap of the new distribution point features. Distribution Points We only have one type of DP in ConfigMgr. 2012, no more branch [...]
Category: Configuration Manager 2012, Software distribution | 5 Comments
Configuration Manager shutdown utility
To suppress or not suppress a computer restart when deploying software and software updates that is the question. No matter what you do, you most likely will not win the “best colleague of the Month” award. If you do not force a computer restart you might face problems like: Non-compliant computers Computers being in reboot [...]
Category: Configuration Manager, Software distribution, Software Updates, Tips and tricks | 12 Comments
Configuration Manager 2012 Prestage content on Distribution Points
Highly inspired by this blog post I started to do me own prestage content testing. Prestaging has long been one of the main reasons (along with bandwidth control) for implementing a secondary site in Configuration Manager 2007. In configuration Manager 2012 both features has now been added to the distribution point. This more or less [...]
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Updating the package source in Configuration Manager 2007
In my “Migrating from Configuration 2007 to Configuration Manager 2012” session at the System Center User Group meeting in Copenhagen last Friday, I demonstrated a tool to automatically update the package source in Configuration Manager 2007. As promised, this tool is now available for download. The background for the tool As we start migrating from [...]
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How to list ConfigMgr package structure in Powershell
This post show how to do a list of all package structure in ConfigMgr 2007, via standard PowerShell.
Category: Configuration Manager, Powershell, Scripting, Software distribution | 2 Comments
Install the Configuration Manager administrator console
Recently I had to prepare a “Configuration Manager Servicedesk kit”. In the kit I added the Configuration Manager console and Client Center. The installation had a few challanges: Creating and specifying Setup.ini during the installation Installing the correct version of Client Center – X64 or X86 – depending on the architecture. To solve the challenge [...]
Category: Configuration Manager, Software distribution, Tips and tricks | 2 Comments
Using Software distribution and Desired Configuration Management to fix non-compliant computers
Desired Configuration Management (DCM) is a feature in Configuration Manager which helps us tracing non-compliant computers. In Configuration Manager 2012 the feature also allows us to automatically remediate non-compliant computers. With Configuration Manager 2007 we can use a combination of DCM and Software Distribution to achieve the same functionality. In this example I will create [...]
Category: Configuration Manager, Desired Configuration Management, Software distribution, Tips and tricks | 5 Comments
Collection for computers that failed to run an advertisement
Recently I got a question from a student who wanted to have two collections for each software deployment. 1 collection containing computer that ran the advertisement successfully; and 1 collection for those who failed. There can be several ways to solve this puzzle. In my example I look at the status messages coming from the [...]
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Distribution Manager – package status is install pending
Its Friday the weekend is coming up and what I don’t want is a day filled errors . On the other hand, errors can be a cool way to start the weekend – if you get them solved! The first 10 minutes at the customer site went according to my plan. I got some coffee [...]
Category: Software distribution, Troubleshooting | 2 Comments
