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• ConfigMgr 2007 Security permissions

  Following on from my ConfigMgr 2012 RBA permissions post , I thought I'd put up the ConfigMgr 2007 Security permissions even though it has been around a while :-) This data was formed via a script from John Nelson , output dumped into Excel and touched... Posted Apr 02 2012, 06:15 AM by ConfigMgr 2012 Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, Permissions, Matrix

• ConfigMgr 2007 - SQL 2008 - Reporting made easy by John Marcum

  John Marcum MVP wrote an awesome beginners guide to generating ConfigMgr 2007 reports using SQL 2008. Well, I did something like this a while back, and the only reason I bring it up, is not to steal some of Mr Marcums thunder, but because I wrote it for... Posted May 20 2011, 06:35 AM by Robs Blog - MVP in the dark arts Filed under: Reporting, ConfigMgr 2007, John Marcum

• ConfigMgr 2007 / 2012 Documentation update for May 2011

  The SMSDOCS team have released the May 2011 update to the ConfigMgr 2007 Documentation Library And yes, you didn't read that wrong, the ConfigMgr 2012 documentation Library is up and browsable. Lots has been added, worth reading the release notes... Posted May 20 2011, 06:31 AM by Robs Blog - MVP in the dark arts Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, Documentation Library, Configmgr 2012

• Clifton Hughes - ConfigMgr 2007 Bare Metal Win7 Task Sequence Deployment with the Enable Bitlocker Step

  Priceless information, thanks for bringing this all together Clifton! ConfigMgr 2007 Bare Metal Win7 Task Sequence Deployment with the Enable Bitlocker Step Posted May 06 2011, 06:52 AM by Robs Blog - MVP in the dark arts Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, Task Sequence, OSD, Clifton Hughes, Bitlocker

• Steve Rachui - How to create offline or standalone USB media for OS Deployment in ConfigMgr

  Another good article from the blogs on Technet for ConfigMgr. This one, is a summarisation of content already in the ConfigMgr Documentation Library, but brings it all together in one place for us, with a step by step walk through to boot. How to create... Posted May 06 2011, 06:40 AM by Robs Blog - MVP in the dark arts Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, Blog, TechNet, OSD, Steve Rachui

• Clifton Hughes is at it again - ConfigMgr 2007 Basic User Driven Install TS step by step

  I'm liking the stuff Clifton Hughes from MS is turning out. This time it is ConfigMgr 2007 Basic User Driven Installation Task Sequence Step by Step and defo worth a read! Posted May 06 2011, 06:37 AM by Robs Blog - MVP in the dark arts Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, Task Sequence, Step by Step, Clifton Hughes

• ConfigMgr Client in workgroup or untrusted domains

  I've written a few documents covering this, but never for the community, always an employer! Well Clifton Hughes over at MS has taken opportunity to bring together all the nuggets of information on aiding ConfigMgr to support workgroup based or clients... Posted May 03 2011, 11:39 AM by Robs Blog - MVP in the dark arts Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, workgroup, untrusted domain

• SQL query for Site servers and Site Systems

  Thought I'd blog this as an Aide mémoire more than anything. Determine which Site Systems are present in the Hierarchy select distinct ServerName as SiteSystems from v_SystemResourceList where servername not in (select servername from v_site... Posted Mar 31 2011, 07:37 AM by Robs Blog - MVP in the dark arts Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, SQL query, Site systems

• ConfigMgr SP2 - Support for Win7 SP1 and W2K8 R2 SP1 platforms

  Microsoft released a patch that allows Win7 SP1 and W2K8 R2 SP1 to become valid recognised clients in ConfigMgr. As a patch, you request and download it, then apply to your Site servers and not to your Site systems. It modifies the entries in the Requirements... Posted Mar 29 2011, 05:21 AM by Robs Blog - MVP in the dark arts Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, Patch, KB, SP2

• Wally Mead - ConfigMgr 2007 R3 and ConfigMgr 2012 Beta 1 videos

  Took me a while, but I managed to create three videos with runtimes of around 1hr 30min+ each from the days video taken at the WMUG November 1st 2010 meeting in London, England in which Wally Mead, Senior Program Manager, gave us a run through of ConfigMgr... Posted Feb 08 2011, 05:49 AM by Robs Blog - MVP in the dark arts Filed under: WMUG, ConfigMgr 2007, Videos, R3, Rob, Configmgr 2012, Beta1

• Video: ConfigMgr 2007 R3

  I did a quick (20 minute) video introducing the features of ConfigMgr 2007 R3. This video contains no audio, instead I use slides to pass on information and to break up the video in to sections covering each of the features. Play video ConfigMgr 2007... Posted Dec 13 2010, 08:22 AM by Robs Blog - MVP in the dark arts Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, R3

• Yes! ConfigMgr R3 is RC!

  Wow check this out: 1. Monitoring and Planning : Power Management collects information about computer usage and power settings for computers in the origination. Reports are provided to allow the administrator to analyze this data and determine optimal... Posted Aug 05 2010, 07:41 AM by Robs Blog - MVP Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, RC, R3

• Steve Rachui: Direct Access – SCCM – Managing internet clients

  Steve rattles out another quality write up , this time on Direct Access and ConfigMgr (please stop calling it SCCM folks!) Do you have internet based clients that you want to manage? Does the idea of switching to SCCM native mode to manage those client... Posted Aug 02 2010, 05:21 AM by Robs Blog - MVP Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, Steve Rachui, Direct Access

• Launching ConfigMgr Resource Explorer outside of the console

  A collegue of mine is currently tasked with looking at inventory for some clients, and he needs to invoke Resource Explorer quite a bit ... it's a time consuming process, as he has to first ID the client in the console (slow), right click (context... Posted Jul 29 2010, 07:59 AM by Robs Blog - MVP Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, vbscript, Resource Explorer

• ConfigMgr 2007 and Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 integration

  Jeff Wettlaufer highlighted this video on how to integrate FEP 2010 in to ConfigMgr 2007, seems to have caused a bit of a stir at TechEd 2010 I believe, bit of a hot topic ... http://blogs.technet.com/b/systemcenter/archive/2010/06/10/configuration-manager... Posted Jun 21 2010, 09:10 AM by Robs Blog - MVP Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, FEP 2010