MMS 2012

JOBS JOBS JOBS! - From Virteva

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Virteva

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.

February 2012 Meeting

Written by Brian Mason on .

Details to come soon, but I need to thank our sponsor in advance:

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Kent Agerlund Returns to MPLS

Written by Brian Mason on .

Kent Agerlund, MVPKent Agerlund is back!

I know many of you in this user group attended Kent's most recent class here for CM12. For those of you who missed it, you're going to get one more chance to spend 4 days with a guy who knows the product probably as well as Wally.

Again, the class will be at Benchmark in Edina where we just held our most recent meeting.  It will be March 19-22.

Kent is a fellow Microsoft MVP for CM and is one of the authors of Mastering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.

Details about the class are here: 

http://truesec.com/mastering_system_center_configuration_manager_

Looks like Benchmark has a direct signup here: 

http://www.benchmarklearning.com/Courses/CrsRegister.aspx?SK=0050328


This just in: Kent has agreed to speak at our March session. Stay tuned!

December 2011 Meeting Notes

Written by Brian Mason on .

From our friends down in AZ:

Hello User Group Members,

I have posted the videos of the meeting up to SkyDrive, along with the bonus material from Greg (found in powershellinfo.zip).  Both Harold Wong (MSFT) and Kevin Remde (MSFT) made recordings (thanks guys!) - and you will see both of them posted.  I think the quality is about the same (although I haven't had a chance to watch both of them completely).  You will see the (two) WMV versions along with the (two) Lync Versions (which require the Lync Recording Player).

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CM07 and PowerShell

Written by Stephen Jesok on .

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.

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November 2011 Meeting Notes

Written by Brian Mason on .

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:

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Scoping the Software Update Role

Written by Brian Mason on .

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!

Update: Not in the video: grant class read for site permissions to your user groups.

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    I recently came across an older, fairly common issue recently but I never see one of the potential workarounds mentioned so I thought I write it up here in case you run into it. With this issue, the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr 2007) Remote Tools and Remote Desktop tools fail to connect to client computers that have a NetBIOS name longer than 15 characters even though regular Windows Remote Desktop works fine.  When your try to start Configuration Manager 2007 Remote Tools you get following error: Unable to contact Host When you try to use the Configuration Manager 2007 Remote Desktop client you get this error: Remote Desktop can’t find the computer <client name>.This might mean that <Client name> does not belong to the specified Network. Verify the computer name and domain that you trying to connect to. When trying to ping the 15+ character NetBIOS name it works, but when we try to ping the truncated NetBIOS name it errors out with the below message: Ping Request could not find host client <truncated NetBIOS name> NOTE In DNS, a Host (A) record is created for the 15+ character NetBIOS name (e.g. Client-PC123456789) although in the Configuration Manager console and under Active Directory users and computers it shows the truncated name consisting of first 15 characters (e.g. Client-PC123456). Most people assume that if you have a NetBIOS name of more than 15 character (the standard, accepted limit), the only way to fix the issue is to shorten it.  While that’s definitely the preferred method, you might be able to get away by enabling "NetBIOS over TCP/IP" on the server and client.  If you have a server or client with an NetBIOS name longer than 15 characters and “NetBIOS over TCP/IP” is disabled then you’ll definitely get the errors mentioned above. To resolve this issue, ensure that both the Configuration Manager 2007 server and the client have NetBIOS over TCP/IP enabled. You can verify this by going to Network Connection -> TCP/IP properties -> Advanced -> WINS tab -> NetBIOS. Adeel Mohd Get the latest System Center news on Facebook and Twitter: App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/appv/ AVIcode Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/avicode ConfigMgr Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/ DPM Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/ MED-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/medv/ OOB Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/oob/ Opalis Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/opalis Orchestrator Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/ OpsMgr Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/ SCMDM Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/mdm/ SCVMM Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm Server App-V Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/serverappv Service Manager Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager System Center Essentials Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenteressentials WSUS Support Team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/sus/ The Forefront Server Protection blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/fss/ The Forefront Identity Manager blog : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ms-identity-support/ The Forefront TMG blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/isablog/ The Forefront UAG blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/edgeaccessblog/

  • KB2509007 does not install correctly when installed at the same time as KB977203 or KB977384

    We recently discovered an issue that KB2509007 would not install properly if installed at the same time as either KB977203 or KB977384 via the PATCH= option in the " Setup Windows and ConfigMgr " task. We were able to reproduce the issue internally and...(read more)

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