Is IIS on your CM12 Site Systems properly configured ? An easy way to monitor (and automatically fix) your settings is using the compliance settings management from Configuration Manager 2012…

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A first beta of Collection Commander for Configuration Manager 2012 is now published on http://cmcollctr.codeplex.com. Collection Commander for CM12 is an extended version of the recently released Patch Monitoring […]

Thanks to Mark Whitte for reporting and fixing!!! some Issues on SCCM Client Center (the one for SCCM 2007).

Version 2.0.4.2 includes the following changes:

Bug: Slp doesn’t clear after connecting to a […]

I have seen an Environment where the Table SYSTEM_CONSOLE_USAGE_DATA had multiple entries per device… with the result that the TopConsoleUser was an old, orphaned entry on some reports.

The following Query will […]

I made this adhoc Tool to get a brief overview of the Patch-Status from a list of machines… You can right click selected rows to trigger some patch related […]

If the “SMS Agent Host” service does not start after migrating to Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 and you find the following error in ccmexec.log:

Initializing power state manager.
Initializing network state […]

The following PowerShell command will install all approved updates (also those without a deadline) on a ConfigMgr2012 […]

Did you know that Client Center for CM12 provides the PowerShell code for all of the functions in the tool… ?!

Just make your changes in the the Tool and copy the PowerShell code from the text box:

A preview of Client Center for Configuration Manager is published on codeplex.

Start the Click-Once release from:
http://sccmclictr.codeplex.com/releases/clickonce/SCCMCliCtrWPF.application?localhost

Note: […]

The SCCM Client Center Automation Library does now support creating DDR Files with DateTime Attributes.

The following example (C#) will generate a simple DDR with a DateTime Attribute (ADLastLogon):
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Have you installed all related SCCM2007 PostSP2 Hotfixes on the SCCM Agents… ? Are you sure that the fixes are really in place ?
It seems that the installation Order is important to have successfully […]

CM2012 Provides a ClientSDK WMI Namespace (rootccmclientsdk) to interact with the SCCM2012 Agent. The following Diagram shows all Classes and Methods of that Namespace (it’s from the Beta2 of CM2012)

Click the image for full size…

Note!: The following content was provided from my Colleagues Armin Denzler and Markus Stucki. Thanks these guys to share the knowledge of their work. Warning, use at your own Risk! The final WinPE boot image may contain a mechanism to format the partition(s) on the local drive before SCCM Task Sequence logic comes up. Thus, simply booting from [...]