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 […]
Two OSD Application Install Issues
Here’s a quick synopsis of two issues I had at my recent customer installing some “packaged” applications during OSD.
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 […]
OSD and RunOnce
I recently stumbled onto a somewhat major issue during OSD that is the result of a fundamental (bad) assumption made by many including Windows itself and Internet Explorer. That assumption […]
Installing Fonts During OSD
Here’s a simple little script to install fonts during OSD. Note that this is an example of not doing any manual work during OSD: manual work is un-IT.
What’s in a Heartbeat
Questions often come on the forums about Heartbeat Discovery including how often should they be configured to run or indirectly, what updates certain resource information in ConfigMgr like the IP […]
Accessing OSD Troubleshooting Tools
About the only method for troubleshooting issues in OSD is to drop to a command-prompt (by pressing F8) and then running whatever tool you need; e.g., Trace32. The only real […]
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 […]