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:

Results and Questions clarifications from April 7th’ Live Meeting: "Configuration Manager 2007 R3, Power Management, Integration with Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010"

First of all, I would like to thank all the participants for attending this Live Meeting, I’ve stated that there will be more events s such organized by “SystemCenter.gr: The Greek SystemCenter User Group” and I will keep my promise for sure!

 

SystemCenter.gr will be operational until the End of May 2011, more details about it’s content and progress in a next blog post, this blog’s content will also get mirrored in there and there will be cross posts between them.

So allow me to sum up about the Live Meeting and to clarify some questions posed.

1η Πανελλήνια παρουσίαση των χαρακτηριστικών διαχείρισης ενέργειας του Configuration Manager 2007 R3 και της λύσης διαχείρισης του Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010

Στα πλαίσια των Partner IT Pro Live Meetings για το έτος 2011 θα γίνει παρουσίαση των χαρακτηριστικών Power Management του Configuration Manager 2007 R3 καθώς και της νέας λύσης Antivirus/Antimalware της Microsoft “Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010” της οποίας η διαχείριση ενσωματώνεται στον Confιguration Manager 2007 R2 και άνω.

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]

Troubleshooting Configuration Manager Part 1: Log Files

Το Άλφα και το Ωμέγα στον εντοπισμό και την επίλυση προβλημάτων στον Configuration Manager είναι η ανάγνωση των Log Files του Server και των Clients.

Χωρίς να θέλω να σας τρομάξω, σας ενημερώνω ότι υπάρχουν πολλά, πάρα πολλά Logfiles, βέβαια δε χρειάζονται όλα για να λύσετε ένα πρόβλημα αλλά κάποιες φορές ο συνδυασμός πληροφοριών μεταξύ διαφορετικών logfiles συμβάλλουν καταλυτικά στη λύση του προβλήματος.

Windows 7 & 2008 R2 SP1 availability and Configuration Manager Support

Hello everybody,

The news are flowing fast about the availability of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2, it is already available on TechNet and MSDN and should be available through Windows Update and Microsoft Download Center on February 22 2011.