Although Synchronicity is one one of the best songs ever from one of the best bands ever, this post isn’t about Gordon Sumner, Stewart Copeland or Andy Summers. This post […]
A Word on Support and Zealotry
This post is a brief response to some of the comments I received on my last post: Copying Files to Every User’s Profile. Support One comment and suggestion that came […]
Controlling Program Deployment Execution Time
In System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2007 and beyond, the time that a program for a required deployment is enforced (or run) by the client is generally thought to be […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
ConfigMgr Application Package Recipes – Adobe Reader X
So was Adobe sucking up to Apple when they decided to use the roman numeral for the version number? Anyway, here’s another common package recipe that I see folks struggling […]
ConfigMgr Program Rerun Behavior
So what exactly do each of these options do in an advertisement? The TechNet documentation is actually pretty sketchy and thus this post (inspired by MVP extraordinaire, Torsten Meringer). Note […]
ConfigMgr and Failed Program Retry
Inspired by a recent forum thread (and John Marcum), I put together a little test to verify if ConfigMgr does indeed automatically retry advertised programs that failed.