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The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: April 1, 2012 at the top of the topic. For those of you who visited us at MMS in Las Vegas last week, thank...

The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: January 1, 2013 at the top of the topic. This month’s publication sees the official release of the documentation for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager...

The Application Catalog in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager allows users to browse, request, and install software that you make available to them. You might be wondering if you can tailor the Application Catalog capabilities to better suit your business requirements. The answer is yes, and this...

[Today’s post is provided by Lilian Xuan ] Every person who uses the Configuration Manager 2007 console has to work with a complicated tree that has more than fifty nodes and hundreds of actions, even if they have permission to operate on just one node. Instead of this experience, how cool would...

3/19/2014 - Updated Clients for Mac computers have been released. For more information see our announcement post http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2014/03/19/announcement-update-for-configuration-manager-clients-for-mac-computers.aspx . Mac OS X 10.9 Support for the System Center 2012...

You can keep your operating system images updated with the latest software updates from Microsoft using the offline servicing feature of Configuration Manager. Here are a few facts you may not know: Software updates content is not retrieved over the wide area network, rather it is obtained locally...

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 adds support for deployment of Windows 8. The Operating System Deployment (OSD) feature builds on existing functionality to make deployment even easier than before, while also taking advantage of some new capabilities offered by the new Windows...

We are pleased to announce that the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Upgrade Assessment Tool (UAT) Beta has been released to Microsoft Connect and can be downloaded here . The Upgrade Assessment Tool (UAT) is a feature download that provides administrative users with information that they...

The installation files for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the associated Endpoint Protection for Linux OS and Macintosh OS were refreshed on January 25, 2013. The SP1 media was updated across all distribution channels (MSDN, TechNet, Volume License, and evaluation...

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 supports Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1: System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 -supports site system roles for the following operating system SKUS: Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard. Windows Server 2012 R2 Data Center. All site...

The new Configuration Manager Application Catalog represents a great opportunity for you to deliver self-service application installation to your company’s users. By modeling the applications and publishing them in the Application Catalog, you can offer up a service that makes installing applications...

We’ve got a great lineup of Unified Device Management sessions at MMS 2013 covering both System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and Windows Intune. Dive into feature areas such as managing heterogeneous devices, mobile device management, advanced infrastructure changes, deployment, and of course...

With the release of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, the Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering team has moved to a new servicing model for product updates. Instead of individual hotfixes, there will be regularly released cumulative updates. This new approach will reduce confusion about...

Hello Configuration Manager administrators. It’s time to get acquainted with Windows PowerShell! We’ve finally introduced native Windows PowerShell support with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1. Many of you know that Windows PowerShell is the new way to automate, but you haven’t...

In System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, we’ve added the capability to automatically remove software update content from distribution points when that content is related to expired updates. This process helps manage drive space on your distribution points by removing any content you no longer need...

This post is a part of the nine-part “ What’s New in Windows Server & System Center 2012 R2 ” series that is featured on Brad Anderson’s In the Cloud blog. Today’s blog post covers how System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager and Windows Intune allow application delivery...

Updated 8/22/2013 - The MS13-052 update published under KB 2840628 has been revised to include the fix for the issues reported below. New installations of MS13-052 as of August 13, 2013 will no longer require the aditional standalone hotfix KB 2872041. Updated 7/29/2013 - Hotfix available We have...

Over the last few days customers observed Asset Intelligence (AI) synchronization failures on System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 sites. AIUpdateSvc.log entries similar to the following were recorded. Error InternalError during download, watermark returned The root cause has...

We would like to inform you of the upcoming changes to the System Center Online cloud service that is used by Configuration Manager Asset Intelligence synchronization points to synchronize software catalog data. We are upgrading the catalog service and hosting it on a new platform. This week onwards...

Issue Several customers reported that child primary sites were entering maintenance mode after upgrading the central administration site from System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1) with CU2 or CU3 to System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. Entries similar to the following...

The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: June 1, 2013 at the top of the topic. This month’s update sees the first installment of our prerelease documentation for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration...

This blog post describes a problem that prevents pull-distribution points, which were introduced with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1, from acquiring packages that were migrated from another Configuration Manager site. Scenario After a package is migrated from one site to another ...

** WIM links updated 10/2/2012 In the System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection Status monitoring dashboard, one possible malware- remediation status is Offline Scan Required . What does this mean, and how can you address this status? First, what this means is that a particular malware could not be fully...

It is often surprising to me how what may seem like innocuous decisions on how to configure settings in Configuration Manager can lead to very different performance results. A case that has come up recently is the difference between using IP subnet based boundaries and IP address range based boundaries...

One of the advantages of having the Endpoint Protection and Configuration Manager data integrated into a single database in Configuration Manager 2012 is that it simplifies building custom reports. Though we offer over 400 total System Center 2012 Configuration Manager reports out-of-box, there will...