Maintenance Windows are a nice feature in Microsoft System Center 2007 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) and beyond (hopefully you are beyond by now). Maintenance Windows are, however, often misunderstood by those new to […]
Update SSRS Reports for ConfigMgr (a how-to)
Actually importing reports into SSRS is a fairly trivial process: just click the Upload File button in the SSRS web portal and select the .rdl file.
OSD Information Script for ConfigMgr
Here’s my version of an OSD information tattoo script for ConfigMgr. There are a few others out there, but I didn’t like exactly how they worked or they weren’t really […]
Additional ConfigMgr Post Restore Step
After performing a System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) Current Branch (CB) site restore with a customer recently, I started noticing a lot of the following error message in distmgr.log: Failed […]
SCEP Licensing for Windows 10 in ConfigMgr
A recent forum question asked whether System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) CALs were needed to manage Windows Defender in Windows 10 using System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr). I wasn’t sure, […]
Certificate Deployment with ConfigMgr
In general, using Active Directory Group Policies to deploy certificates is the easiest and best way to go; however, what if you don’t trust Group Policy, your organization isn’t willing […]
WSUS Cleanup for ConfigMgr
Since ConfigMgr 2007 was released, the recommendation and firm statement from Microsoft has been to not perform any administration within a ConfigMgr integrated WSUS instance. In particular, performing approvals or […]
User Context in ConfigMgr 2012 Applications
Every now and then someone will post to the forums claiming that ConfigMgr is not running an application as the user when the deployment type is set to “Install for User” […]
Stop the Insanity
I see a lot of different things in a lot of different environments done by different Windows and ConfigMgr administrators. Sometimes, I just have to shake my head and press […]
Local Shutdown Tracking in ConfigMgr
Another example I quickly covered in my System Center Universe Europe 2015 session on Advanced Data Collection was tracking shutdowns of managed systems. This is done by selectively collecting event […]