One of the new features of MBAM 2.0 is the ability to integrate with ConfigMgr. This allows the ConfigMgr client to report compliance data into ConfigMgr for a better reporting experience than was available in […]

One announcement that was made during MMS 2013 was the release of MDOP 2013 which includes MBAM 2.0. I’m not writing this blog to tell you about the features of MBAM 2.0, if you want that info you can get it here. […]

A couple weeks ago there was a thread on the SMS mailing list discussing AI, add/remove programs data and third party normalization products. Personally I’ve been using BDNA Normalize CM for a couple years now. I […]

Prior to the writing of this document I have created several deployment packages. I use a total of four packages. There’s one for Windows XP, Windows 7, Office and Adobe. These packages have been sent to a DP […]

In earlier blogs I’ve shown you how to automatically uninstall software using BDNA Normalize CM data in ConfigMgr. The steps I outlined in that blog post definitely work from a technical perspective however […]

Out of the box in Configmgr 2012 is lacking a couple of RBAC roles that I’d think are fairly commonly required. This tutorial will step you through creating RBAC roles for reporting users and reporting […]

We are currently performing an XP to Windows 7 migration across the Enterprise. In preparation for the migration I’ve was asked to supply a custom report in pdf format for each machine. The report contains a list […]

You’ve performed a restore from backup on a ConfigMgr 2012 RTM site and now you notice that software updates are not sync’ing? There’s a bug that should be fixed in SP1 but for now we need to peform some manual […]

So you had some catastrophe and you had to rebuild or restore your CM12 environment. At the end of the restore you are told that you need to reinstall CU1.
You download CU1 and run the installer but it will not […]

So you have some catastrophe and you have to rebuild or restore your CM12 environment. Now you may notice that in your all unknown computers collection you have four entries rather than two. 

You’d think the […]

This blog is a follow-up post to an earlier blog I’ve written. The steps are exactly the same as they were in ConfigMgr 2007 and Service Manager, the only difference is the xml file provided here has been updated. […]

If you are seeing the error “No accessible source location found for the content” in execmgr.log on your ConfigMgr 2012 clients just after an entry such as “Executing program setup.exe” you have configured your […]

I’ve been using Normalize CM from BDNA to normalize my software and hardware information in SCCM for quite a while now. I’ve been very pleased with the data and reporting that this product is providing inside of […]

When attemping to upgrade a shared DP in ConfigMgr 2012 you could possibly see the status hang for hours or even days. You will see “The item MIG_Job 16777217 has finished running” over and over about once per […]

Over the years that I have spent working in the IT industry I’ve heard many buzz words come and go. Many of the ideas behind those buzz words were never realized, but of course many of them are in in use today.
A […]

As promised in my blog, Windows 7 Migration: Analyzing software readiness using Normalize CM, here is the follow-up blog describing how to analyze hardware readiness.
I won’t bore you with the details about why […]

According to my constant reminder, the Windows XP End of Support gadget, Windows XP will finally die in 609 days. If you haven’t seen the gadget you should check it out http://bit.ly/N3a06f I like to keep it on my […]