February 2011 - Posts

• Preparing for the MVP summit 2011

  Hi All, Just getting myself ready for the MVP summit in Seattle next week, as our other 3 SCUG MVP’s ( Kim Oppalfens & Alexandre Verkinderen & Mike Resseler ) . For me it is going to be an exciting event for me , as it is my second MVP summit... Posted Feb 24 2011, 08:21 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: MVP, summit

• New Intune Client available

  Today I received an email from the Intune program Description Thank you for your participation in the Windows Intune beta and your feedback to date. Based on feedback that we received, we have recently made changes to the service. What this means to you... Posted Feb 23 2011, 02:43 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: Client, Intune, Administration, Maintenance

• Upgrading DPM 2007 to DPM 2010

  A customer is running DPM 2007 SP1 on a Windows Server 2003 with a Remote SQL 2005 database. The customer want's to upgrade to DPM 2010. In this post I will explain my upgrade plan and the issues I ran into. Before starting the upgrade process, I... Posted Feb 20 2011, 08:03 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: dpm 2010, Tips and Trics, Data Protection Manager

• DPM 2010: Bare Metal Recovery–Network Connectivity

  I was doing some test with Bare Metal Recovery. Most parts of the recover procedure are explained great in blogpost like this one from CTRL+P: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm/archive/2010/05/12/performing-a-bare-metal-restore-with-dpm-2010.aspx But I was... Posted Feb 20 2011, 07:45 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Windows Server 2008, dpm 2010, Tips and Trics, Data Protection Manager

• Configmgr 2007 and how to automate Windows 7 Backup Activation thru a task sequence

  One of my customers is using a GHOST principle on their laptops, to restore an original image from a restore partition. This partition is right now visible for the end user. Now that we are migrating towards SCCM we want to do the same thing thru Configmgr... Posted Feb 20 2011, 06:43 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: configmgr, sccm, SCCM 2007, sccm2007, Configmgr 2007, OSD, SCCM 2007 R2, ConfigMgr 2007 R2, Windows 7, Installation, SCCM 2007 SP2, ConfigMgr SP2, SCCM 2007 R3, ConfigMgr2007 R3, Operating System Deployment, Deployment, Task Sequence, Windows 7 SP1

• Configmgr 2007 : Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) supportability

  Hi Guys ,   News is traveling fast about the availability of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2, as it is already available on TechNet ,  MSDN and MVLS site .   However it is NOT certified and therefore NOT SUPPORTED... Posted Feb 19 2011, 04:22 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: configmgr, sccm, SCCM 2007, sccm2007, Configmgr 2007, OSD, SCCM 2007 R2, ConfigMgr 2007 R2, SCCM 2007 SP2, ConfigMgr SP2, R3, SCCM 2007 R3, ConfigMgr2007 R3, Operating System Deployment, FEP2010, Windows 7 SP1

• MMS 2011 is only 5 weeks away and Birds of a Feather session on ConfigMgr R3 Power management : Lessons learned from the field

  Hi All, I have recently deployed Configuration Manager 2007 R3 RTM in production at my TAP customer. Those who attended my presentation at the Belgian System Center Day “http://scug.be/blogs/sccm/archive/2010/09/30/announcement-system-center-day-in-belgium... Posted Feb 18 2011, 03:50 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: SCCM 2007, configmgr2007, mms, R3, SCCM 2007 R3, ConfigMgr2007 R3, Power Management, BOF, MMS-2011

• EASE

  Microsoft Belux is about to launch a new campaign called EASE EASE stands for: Explore the newest technology Solve problems with Technical Insight Advance your career to the next level Engage with your local IT community The idea behind the campaign is... Posted Feb 18 2011, 11:23 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: fun, information, Microsoft, Campaign

• TechDays 2011: Final Chance to Register with Early Bird Pricing!

  Soon it will be Techdays 2011 in Belgium.  Techdays Belgium is the opportunity to see some great sessions from top speakers all over the world, and some local speakers as well. I’m honored to say that I will be presenting myself, together with Alexandre... Posted Feb 17 2011, 01:50 PM by SCUG.be

• Mpsetup.log: Setup was unable to create ccm_incoming on a Windows 2008 (non R2) Box after installing a patch

  Issue : During a necessary patch installation it denied installing the Configmgr client hotfix package on the site server because it told us another install was already occurring . After rebooting the server , the server had issues with reinstalling the... Posted Feb 16 2011, 01:40 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: configmgr, sccm, SCCM 2007, sccm2007, Configmgr 2007, SCCM 2007 R2, ConfigMgr 2007 R2, MP, SCCM 2007 SP2, ConfigMgr SP2, R3, SCCM 2007 R3, ConfigMgr2007 R3

• Calling the Belgians for MMS 2011

  Hey All, As you might have read or seen in the media the last days, there is a possibility that a volcano will erupt in Iceland soon.  For those who can remember it, a volcano eruption happened which caused some of us to drive to Madrid Airport and... Posted Feb 10 2011, 01:21 PM by SCUG.be Filed under: MMS 2011

• Data sources clean-up/update for Service Manager

  Hello, In this blog I want to share some experience with importing data in Service Manager. As you probably already now, you can automatically import CI’s (and other object) in Service Manager via connectors. SCSM connectors are available for Active Directory... Posted Feb 08 2011, 06:17 AM by SCUG.be

• The Intune Notice Board

  Whenever Microsoft needs to do maintenance to the Intune system, it will let you know in time. It does this in three ways: 1) By email Windows Intune Beta Planned Service Outage Account:  Infront Consulting Group BVBA Source:    Path: ... Posted Feb 06 2011, 02:19 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: Intune, Notification, Status, Maintenance

• ConfigMgr on xendesktop with the usage of provisioning server : Unique GUID issue and the smscfg.ini

  Have you ever tried to manage your XENDesktop or PVS target devices using Configuration Manager in combination with an App-V integrated scenario ? I have a few customers that started to use Citrix Provisioning services and where faced with some issues... Posted Feb 04 2011, 03:25 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: configmgr, sccm, SCCM 2007, configmgr2007, sccm2007, Configmgr 2007, SCCM v.Next, SCCM 2007 R2, ConfigMgr 2007 R2, SCCM 2007 SP2, ConfigMgr SP2, R3, SCCM 2007 R3, ConfigMgr2007 R3, Xenapp, citrix, ConfigMgr V.next, Deployment, SCCM 2012, ConfigMgr 2012, PVS, Xendestop

• Prepping for MMS 2011

  As we are now beginning of February, the excitement for the next few months is starting to come.  In a few weeks we will have the MVP summit where I will meet many of my peers, fellow MVP’s and more interesting people and where I will attend great... Posted Feb 03 2011, 07:12 AM by SCUG.be Filed under: System Center Data Protection Manager, MMS 2011