In a recent post about ConfigMgr 2012 Application Installation Failures, I discussed applying the hotfix described in KB2522623 during a build and capture task sequence to resolve access denied error […]
ConfigMgr Forest Discovery and Name Resolution
Forest Discovery is a new feature in ConfigMgr 2012 that enables ConfigMgr to dynamically create boundaries based on subnet information in Active Directory and publish service location information to multiple […]
ConfigMgr 2012 Application Installation Failures
I’ve seen this as an issue now a few times now in my lab and production environments as well as on the forums. In brief, this specific issue is an […]
ConfigMgr 2012 and 32-bit Application Installers
Why are 32-bit application installers special and why do they need special handling? First, a caveat: If you don’t have any 64-bit OSes in your environment (or never will), then […]
ConfigMgr Folder Structure
I’ve seen a lot of environments and the one typical commonality is that there simply was no planning or forethought put into where to store everything like source files, packages, […]
Secondary Sites and Boundary Groups
Boundary Groups were introduced in ConfigMgr 2012 to combine boundaries together and give them one of two common purposes: Content Location Site Assignment
ConfigMgr 2012 Application Deployment By Example: User EXE Deployment
Scenario: Deploy an application using the new application deployment capabilities of ConfigMgr 2012. Criteria: Native install using EXE installer (instead of an MSI based installer) Deploy to all users in […]
IP Subnet Boundaries are EVIL
This is my long planned post on the evils of IP Subnet boundaries in ConfigMgr – this includes both 2007 and 2012 because nothing has changed between the two versions […]
Copying Files to Clients Using ConfigMgr
This seemingly simple task stumps and trips up a lot of people in both ConfigMgr 2007 and ConfigMgr 2012. It’s not that it’s a difficult task per se, it’s that […]
OSD and Multicast
Multicast is a commonly misunderstood technology particularly with respect to OSD in ConfigMgr. The basic misperception revolves around multicast somehow being “magically” faster or better than the normal unicast method […]