Browsing: SCCM 2012 R2

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…

It’s friday afternoon, and I’m sitting in my office, preparing my new SCCM 2012 R2 demo environment for the upcomming Microsoft CampusDays in Copenhagen. During this preperation I just noticed a new default built-in query; “All jailbroken or rooted devices”. It really made me smile, and gave me a few ideas to a new demo. So I though I’d share it here Have a great weekend.

Microsoft has release a preview of the next version of the “Cloud OS” vision. This release was announced at TechEd Europe during the Keynote in Madrid earlier today. This release includes both the Server OS, the System Center suite, SQL and Windows Azure. Evaluation versions of this new “R2” wave, is now available on MSDN and TechNet: Windows Server Evaluations Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview for IT Professionals Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview on Windows Azure Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview for Developers Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Preview Windows ADK 8.1 Preview Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8.1…

Microsoft TechEd North America 2013 in New Orleans has kicked off, and the sessions has started to show up on Channel 9, where most sessions and PowerPoint slides will be available 24 hours after the presentation. I’ve just watched the WCA-B328 Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 – Configuration Manager Overview session by Jason Adams and Dilip Radhakrishnan. And even if it the session title says SCCM 2012 SP1, lots of the new R2 stuff was covered. Truly a great overview session. View online session: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2013/WCA-B328 Download PowerPoint: http://video.ch9.ms/sessions/teched/na/2013/WCA-B328.pptx Here are my notes from the session:(The R2 screenshots are from the…