Security Compliance Manager 3.0 (SCM 3.0) is now available for download! SCM 3.0 is a free tool from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team that enables you to quickly configure and manage both desktops and servers using Group Policy and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. In addition to key features from the previous version, SCM 3.0 offers new Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, and Internet...

User Driven Installation lets your end users control the OS deployment and you can let them select things like the computer name, Add themselves to the local admin group, select the Image, select the domain and the OU, enable bit-locker, applications to deploy etc. With the integration of SCCM 2012 and MDT 2012 you can use a single infrastructure and merge the benefits of these two different tools...

A new version of System Center Cloud Services Process Pack is available for download now. This will work with Service Mnager 2012 RTM so if you are one of the enthusiasts waiting after RTM installation, go grab it! Its available under System Center 2012 – Service Manager Component Add-ons and Extensions http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28726&WT.mc_id=rss_alldownloads_all...

To configure the integration between MDT 2012 and SCCM 2012: 1. Go to Start > All Programs > Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2. Select Configure ConfigMgr Integration On the first screen, fill out details of configuration manager Primary site server and click Next (Use the removal option if you had any previous integration in place) Review installation results and make sure it...

Download MDT 2012 from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25175 Before you start the installation from the MSI installer make sure the prerequisites are in place. Some of the common Prerequisites for installing MDT 2012 are: Microsoft Management Console version 3.0 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) Windows PowerShell™ version 2.0 Windows AIK for Windows 7...

The Server Locator Point is no more a separate site system role in SCCM 2012. It's functionality is merged into the Management Point. To install CM12 client on workgroup machines: Make sure your Management Point is published on DNS or WINS Make sure Management Point FQDN can be resolved from the client machine For the client installation on Workgroup machines use the CCMSetup.exe...

The latest version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit—version 2012— is now available for download. Visit the Download Center to download MDT 2012. Deploy Windows 7, Office 2010, Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Windows Server “8” Beta and Windows Server 2008 R2 with the newly released Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012. MDT 2012 is the newest version of Microsoft Deployment...

Inventory reports with stale records have been one of the pain areas for Administrators. The poor client health with no auto-remediation and inefficiently configured maintenance tasks are major reasons behind it. Configuration Manager 2012 is going to be the true friend of IT administrators and managers when it comes to address these challenges. Here I'll talk about some key strengths of CM 2012...

Question: I have successfully Installed Configuration Manager 2012, with one Central Administration site and two Primary site servers. Okay, so what do I do next and where to start from? Answer: This is well documented in the TechNet library and here is how I would prioritize a few must do things, after you install Configuration Manager 2012 site servers: On the topmost site server in your...

In case you have not yet tried enabling Endpoint Protection in CM 2012 and wondering how to do it, let me try to help you. One of the most important things to determine Is where to install the Endpoint protection Point role in your CM 2012 hierarchy. If you have a CM 2012 standalone primary site server, you can enable the Endpoint Protection Point site system role on the Standalone primary site...