Monthly Archives: October, 2013

Microsoft Campus Days 2013 is over. Now it’s time to start preparing for the next big event; Microsoft Next. Microsoft Next is the main event this year for CIO’s and IT decision makers in large and medium size enterprises. I have the honor of presenting two shared sessions with Louise Harders (Windows Product Manager) about Window 8.1 in the Enterprise. At these sessions, you can learn how customers today are using Windows 8/8.1 and how Microsoft provide a unified management experience of multiple Windows devices with Microsoft System Center and Windows Intune. More information about Microsoft Next here: http://www.microsoft.com/danmark/next/ Looking…

I just got back home from Microsoft CampusDays 2013; the biggest IT event in Denmark for IT Pro’s. Microsoft CampusDays is one of the many great events where some of the most skilled IT Professionals from customers and partners in Denmark meet to increase their technical expertise through deep technical training, sharing of best practices and interaction with innovators and pioneers in Microsoft technologies. As a Microsoft MVP, I’m always looking forward to this event. This year I gave a presentation on Application Managenment using the upcomming release of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2. This talk was given at…

Friday (October 18th. 2013) Microsoft is releasing the next major release of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager the “R2” release. My guess is that many customers would like to install this update very fast, so I thought I’d make a simple overview guide to help with this process. This checklist/guide will explain the steps required to upgrade an existing SCCM 2012 SP1 Stand-alone primary site to SCCM 2012 R2. Verify that all your sites run SCCM 2012 SP1 Uninstall the existing version of Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) 8.0 Note: If you have other servers with the SMS Provider…

An update is available to address 3 issues that were discovered after the release of Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) for Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1). The 3 issues are: Issue 1 The SQL Update part of the Cumulative Update 3 installation fails when the date format on the instance of Microsoft SQL Server is defined in the DD/MM/YYYY format. Issue 2 The All Windows RT and All Windows RT 8.1 Preview entries should not appear in the supported platform list for new configuration items. Issue 3 Task sequences that contain Windows 8.1 as a condition…