Author: Ronni Pedersen

Welcome to the Microsoft MVP Roadshow 2015. I’m super excited and really looking forward to speak about Mobile Device Management (MDM), Microsoft Intune and about all of the benefits of the EMS Suite. Both Kenny Buntinx, a fellow MVP from Belguim and Rasmus Hald from Microsoft, will join me on stage to make sure you’ll get all your questions answered. Check out the full agenda and register here: MVP Roadshow – 16. March in Copenhagen 09.00 to 12.00 MVP Roadshow – Mobile Device Management The volume and diversity of devices users want to use to access corporate assets grows every…

When you install the latest cumulative update for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM), it automatically creates 4 new packages for client, server and console updates. If you forget to clean up after each update, you’ll end up a situation like this: Unfortunately the SCCM user interface does not support multiselect and delete, so if you want to delete all these packages, you need to walk through the delete wizard for each package. That is both extremely boring but also takes a lot of time. So I wrote this little PowerShell script that will delete all post SCCM 2012 CU4…

This morning, I got call from one of our internal SCCM Admins that wanted to test the newly released SCCM 2012 R2 CU4 update in his lab environment. He had multiple test installations so he just picked an old one that he hadn’t used in a while and, without checking anything, he just ran the setup. He did follow my Quick Start Guide but he skipped the preparing and checking part. What could possible go wrong? Setup did update the Site successfully but when the creation of the packages started, the setup failed. He knows that I always like to…

Today (on February 2nd or the 3rd, 2015, depending on your current time zone) Cumulative Update (CU) 4 for ConfigMgr 2012 R2 was released. It’s a great update. Not only does it contains 25 updates but also 32 PowerShell fixes and 35 new PowerShell cmdlets. Amazing! Can’t wait to get this baby deployed in production Here’s a list of issues that are fixed: Client (1 fix) Software Distribution and Application Management (6 fixes) Network Access Protection (1 fix) Operating System Deployment (2 fixes) Administrator Console (1 fix) Site Servers and Site Systems (6 fixes) Mobile Devices (4 fixes) Migration (1…

Here is a list of all the 35 NEW cmdlets that was added in System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager CU4. More information and examples will be added to this post later. Add-CMDeploymentTypeDependency Add-CMDeploymentTypeSupersedence ConvertFrom-CMApplication ConvertFrom-CMConfigurationItem ConvertTo-CMApplication ConvertTo-CMConfigurationItem Get-CMClientOperation Get-CMCertificate Get-CMDeploymentTypeDependency Get-CMDeploymentTypeDependencyGroup Get-CMDeploymentTypeSupersedence Get-CMMigrationSource Get-CMObjectSecurityScope Get-CMQuery Get-CMSiteRole Invoke-CMQuery Invoke-CMSystemDiscovery Invoke-CMUserDiscovery Invoke-GroupDiscovery New-CMADGroupDiscoveryScope New-CMDeploymentTypeDependencyGroup New-CMEmbeddedObjectInstance New-CMEmbeddedProperty New-CMEmbeddedPropertyList New-CMQuery Remove-CMCollection Remove-CMDeploymentTypeDependency Remove-CMDeploymentTypeDependencyGroup Remove-CMDeploymentTypeSupersedence Remove-CMQuery Set-CMDeploymentTypeDependency Set-CMDeploymentTypeDependencyGroup Set-CMDeploymentTypeSupersedence Set-CMQuery Sync-CMMigrationSource /Enjoy

Introduction Installing this update is very similar to previous versions but a few things have changed since I did the last post on CU updates. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the upgrade process step-by-step in a standalone primary scenario. The full list of fixes and a link to request the hotfix is available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3026739/ As always, you should start by checking the health of the system, verify the backup, etc. At a minimum, you should check the following: Install any missing updates (security, critical and important). Verify you don’t have a pending restart. Verify that you…

When upgrading the System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) client to a new version, most customers would prefer to create new collections for this task. As a cosultant I create alot of these “ad-hoc” collections every time I visit a customer, so I’ve created a small libary of PowerShell scripts that will help me create these collections really fast when I need them. Here is a simple PowerShell script that will create 2 kinds of collections that will help you for this specific task. #CLI – Client Version; That will have all clients with a specific client version. #CU – Cumulative…

“We Are the World” is a song and charity single originally recorded by the super group “USA for Africa” in 1985. (The last recording session for the song was held on January 28, 1985.) That is exactly 30 years ago today. About 10 or 12 years ago, I found this funny little video on an internal file share. The video was created in 1987 by the company I work for (EG) as part of the 10th year anniversary party. It’s truly a great video, so I thought I’d share it with all of you right here /Enjoy

The team behind System Center User Group Denmark has announced the events scheduled for 2015. As always, you can expect nothing but the highest quality of technical sessions available in Denmark. All content will be delivered by some on the world’s best and brightest experts in their field along with top speakers from all over the world. If you spend your day working with Microsoft products like Windows Server, System Center, Microsoft Azure and Client/Mobile Management; these are the user group meetings you cannot afford to miss. And they’re 100% FREE to attend! Read more about the schedule and pre-book your calendar here:…

Microsoft has released the Configuration Manager Servicing Extension for ConfigMgr 2012 R2. This new add-on for the Administrator console provides a summary of the Configuration Manager versions in the environment, simplified client targeting, and information on new Configuration Manager related releases. Feature Summary The Servicing Extension provides the following capabilities: Notifies you of Configuration Manager updates as they become available, with the ability to filter updates according to which major product release they apply to Provides version details on the sites in your environment, including the last major Configuration Manager version installed and the most recently installed Cumulative Update Provides…