SCCM Systems Analyst
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 12 Months Contract
Location: Eagan, MN

Role Description:
This person is responsible for requests from our customer for any of several End Point Management services such as Application Packaging, S/W or Patch Distribution using Microsoft SCCM, Tier 3 Incident Support, Image Development using Microsoft MDT 2010, and Problem Management of systemic or recurring Desktop Management problems.

Requires strong knowledge of Microsoft SCCM, Wise Packaging, ITSM/Remedy, and VBScript.

Ideal Education background would be:
Minimum 2 yr related college degree required, 4 yr degree preferred.
Minimum 2 years closely related experience with Microsoft and/or Wise based services relevant to the position.

Regards,
Manish Patel312-698-8982

If you missed last night's meeting, you missed one of the best of the year. Thanks again to OpenDNS for the pizza!

Jarvis Davis, CDW, showed us how he simplified the hierarchy of a defense contractor from many hundreds of servers to just 1 primary site with CM12. Jarvis is a natural at group speaking and it was good to hear him again.

Kent Agerlund, Coretech, ConfigMgr MVP, gave us an hour of CM12 SUM tricks. He also answered questions brought up before his session and integrated them into his slides. Good questions and answers all around. Kent just emailed me about the slides:

The slides can be downloaded here - http://blog.coretech.dk/download/MNSCUG-March-2012.zip the two reports that I created (they are not finalized I just created the first drafts yesterday) http://blog.coretech.dk/download/reports.zip

We look forward to having Kent back this year. But since we owe him one and he expressed interest, we're thinking of having another SQL session from #2 in June when he returns.

We also have the May meeting tentatively moved to Thursday, May 17th and will try to start working in some Thursday sessions as some of our group members just can't make Wednesday night sessions.

In case you missed our January session, Catapult has released these videos:

Before I blow my demo box away, I figured it'd be a good time to make a video to show how I carved out permissions in CM so that I didn't need to bring up another site for the server team for security reasons. This method lets everyone share the same central site. Of course, all this is made easier in the next version via RBAC, but for now, this is what we have.

For that inheritance script I mention, you can download it here.

By the way, I'm hoping to show the pre-beta built of v.Next in our next user group meeting!

Thanks to Tom Grezek for stepping in as our new Microsoft sponsor (Kevin Remde also offered to help when needed as did Tim Benjamin).

We had almost 60 people show up last night and fortunately, we were able to get shifted to the larger room thanks to the receptionist (can't recall her name).

I went over the new features of RC1 in CM12. About 6-7 people say they have RC in the lab. But nobody seemed to have a set goal of rolling it out next year.

Here is a shot of the ADR buildup I was talking about when you make one daily for EP:

Project Overview:
Health Baseline and remediation using SCCM 2012 DCM (Desired Configuration Management)
Evaluate current application automated provision strategy during build. Evaluate use of UDI (User Driven Installation as a part of MDT / SCCM integration. Diagnostic Partition to maintain workstations.

Requirements:

• Advanced knowledge of SCCM / OSD and Desired Configuration management (Configuration Baselines)
• Knowledge of DART (Desktop Application recovery toolkit)
• Expert with MDT 2010 / 2012 and integration into SCCM OSD including UDI (User driven installation)
• Experience with web-services
• PowerShell / Vbscripting

Please let me know if you are interested in more details

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www.talution.com
312-878-5284

Matthew just sent his zipped files he showed off at our last meeting.  You can get them here.

He's also provided his contact information should you have further questions.

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Thanks again Matthew for making dull PowerShell very interesting!  Thanks Steve for reminding us that Ochestrator is easy to learn and quite powerful.

Reminder to all: if you own CM with SA, you already own Orchestrator too.

And thanks again to Corey Olson from Benchmark for the food and beer!

Virteva has 4 openings to offer. I zipped the Word docs into this file for you to download!

I hope this can help someone in our group who might be looking. They're all MPLS based.

More positions!

Here is stripped down powershell script that will setup an advertisement tied to a collection based on an AD group (It creates all 3). The SCCM parts are in bold. I found the PowerShell module out at http://www.snowland.se/sccm-posh/. It and a MDT module are in the attached zip.