"System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection is going to consolidate desktop security and management into a single on-premise solution" So what's new? It been there ever since FEP 2010 was integrated into SCCM 2007. Is there anything new about it? What is going to change for a business user? These are a few questions which I will try to answer in this post. First of all it is now called System Center...

Cross posted from PTS Blogs http://blogs.technet.com/b/ptsblog/archive/2011/03/02/using-sccm-r3-pre-stage-media-to-prestage-os-deployments.aspx In this post I’ll demonstrate how to use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 to create prestaged media, and then prestaging the operating system (OS) image on a fresh hardware using a Task Sequence. Afterwards, we will install the operating...

Cross posted from PTS Blogs http://blogs.technet.com/b/ptsblog/archive/2011/12/16/how-to-install-the-configuration-manager-2012-primary-site.aspx Previous Post: How to Install the Configuration Manager 2012 Central Administration Site On the primary site server, again make sure you have following components available. 1. Make sure you have x64 Windows server 2008 Operating System 2. Install...

Cross posted from PTS Blogs http://blogs.technet.com/b/ptsblog/archive/2011/12/16/how-to-install-the-configuration-manager-2012-central-administration-site.aspx When I recently had to install Configuration Manager 2012 in my lab setup, I thought of capturing screenshots. I installed a Central Administration Site and a Primary site attached to it. Here is a high level overview of all steps involved...

Cross Posted from PTS Blogs: http://blogs.technet.com/b/ptsblog/archive/2011/12/19/configuration-manager-2012-rc-what-s-new-in-software-update-management.aspx Configuration Manager 2012 is introducing a lot of changes in update deployment procedures. Most of the changes are around the "HOW" part while there are some new concepts too. In this post I'll talk about what some of the changes are around...

Cross Posted from PTS Blogs: http://blogs.technet.com/b/ptsblog/archive/2011/12/20/configuration-manager-2012-rc-configure-software-catalogue-portal-and-publish-applications.aspx The Software Catalogue portal is a cool new feature in System Center Configuration Manager 2012. Administrators can publish applications for end users, and optionally they can enforce authorization before actual deployment...

  When I tried to deploy a Task Sequence in CM 2012, I noticed two surprising elements.   One, that the Deploy Task Sequence option was greyed out. I checked almost everything related to the task sequence, but found nothing that could change the status. My colleague Sreekanth had already went through the same pain, and found that the Format and partition disk TS was throwing an error, if...

This article is cross posted from my original post on PTS Official Blog A few days back, I configured OS deployment in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Beta 2 to deploy a Windows 7 Image, which I had captured using Configuration Manager 2007. It was all in a Hyper-V environment so no drivers were to be included in this scenario. I wanted to share an illustrated walkthrough of the process...

Hello and welcome to my first blog post. My name is Anil Malekani, and I work as a Partner Consultant at Microsoft. In this position I work with Microsoft Partners to provide consulting to our customers and partners in areas like System Center, Forefront Endpoint Protection and Rights Management. I’m very excited about the System Center suite of products like System Center Configuration...