Master Rank in System Center area of Experts Exchange achieved!

Today I got this great notification from Experts Exchange:

New Member Rank Earned Congratulations gsimos, The knowledge you have shared on Experts Exchange has earned you a Master Member Rank. You now have a new Member Rank Shield in your profile as well as access to a custom Expert Badge to display on your personal website or blog. Visit the "Rewards" tab in My Account to create your badge: ( http://www.experts-exchange.com/editProfile.jsp ) Keep up the great answers — you are a valuable part of the Experts Exchange community and we appreciate your contributions! Thank you, The Experts Exchange Team

I’m now officially a Master in the “System Center” area of Experts Exchange! YEAH!!!!

Here are goes my badge:

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How To: Enable Defrag on Server 2008R2 and Windows 7 Using ConfigMgr Setttings Management

A great article from MVP and friend Greg Ramsey:

How To: Enable Defrag on Server 2008R2 and Windows 7 Using ConfigMgr Setttings Management.

Certification for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Completed!

Wow this is really great news!

On February 23/2012 I had the privilege to take the Beta Examination of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager named and coded as “071-243 Administering & Deploying System Center 2012 Configuration Manager”, the examination results would be announced 8 weeks after the beta cycle completion.

System Center 2012 RC Versions available for Public Evaluation (along with some Betas)

Well after some hiatus from blogging I’m back to update you with stuff I learn for the System Center family of products and especially “Configuration Manager”.

I’ve been waiting since July 2011 the RC Version of Configuration Manager 2012 or better known as “System Center 2012 Configuration Manager”, notice the re-branding of the product, it’s not any more “System Center Configuration Manager 2012” it is “System Center 2012 Configuration Manager”, the same goes to the other products of the “System Center” family, now they are all named as “System Center 2012 Product Name”, it will take me some time to get used to it but that’s not a serious issue .

Configuration Manager 2007: Advertisement status error

Fellow MVP from Canada Garth Jones has encountered an error while checking the Advertisement Status for a Specific time frame in Configuration Manager 2007, after the error message the console crashes.

This has been filed as a bug in Connect (https://connect.microsoft.com/site16/feedback/details/654967/mvp-advertisement-status-error) and here are the reproduction Steps:

Automating Configuration Manager 2007 Remote Server Migrations to CM 2012 Version with Configuration Manager Physical to Virtual Migration Toolkit (CTP)

These are really exciting news, during MMS 2011 it was announced from the Configuration Manager Team, that there is a tool available in Community Technology Preview (CTP )Version which will facilitate the migration of Remote Site Servers that need to be retained during the Side-by-Side Migration process of Configuration Manager 2007 to Configuration Manager 2012.

Here is the official info, the link at the connect site to download it can be found at the end of the post:

Configuration Manager 2012 Public Beta 2 has been Released!

The heat is up during this week in Las Vegas because of MMS 2011, the premier event for Systems Management organized by Microsoft is changing the way we manage, deploy and govern Systems and Datacenters.

So what’s better from great availability announcement of products we love such as Configuration Manager 2012!

The public beta 2 is available, you should get your copy and start testing in your labs, here is the announcement from the official System Center Configuration Manager Blog:

Announcement: System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 has been released!

Posted Wed, Mar 23 2011

[Today’s post is from Ken Pan]

The strange non-operation of Context menu entry “Manage” on Start Menu and Desktop Icon “Computer” item.

This one has been torturing me for some time and I haven’t had the time to pinpoint and resolve it, however today was the right time because I was tweaking my laptop for this week’s Hyper-V Training session. I’ll explain what happened below…

Guide for deploying software that resides in DFS folders via Configuration Manager 2007

Some months ago I faced the need to use a uniform folder structure that spanned across numerous sites of an enterprise to be used as a common repository for the Software packages of the Configuration Manager 2007 infrastructure.