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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...

** 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...

With the integration of Endpoint Protection into System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, it’s easy to get your clients rapidly protected from malware, and managed by System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection as part of the operating system deployment (OSD) process. Here, I’m going to cover...

9/9/2011 - The script in this posting has been updated to handle assigning a new machine name during the deployment. [Today’s post comes from Minfang Lv ] This post describes how and when you might see duplicate records when you use unknown computer support with Active Directory Delta-Discovery...

[Today’s post comes from Chaohao Xu ] This blog post introduces how to create prestaged media for Windows Embedded Standard 7.1, PosReady7 and ThinPC with ConfigMgr 2007 R3. First, you need to setup a reference machine that runs the operating system you plan to deploy. Then, you need to capture...

[Today's post is provided by Chaohao Xu .] The Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7 SP1 is released and can be downloaded from the following location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=0aee2b4b-494b-4adc-b174-33bc62f02c5d You don't have to upgrade to...

[Today's post is provided by Chaohao Xu .] If Windows hotfix KB974571 is installed on a Windows 7 reference image, then it is highly likely that you would see the following log entries in smsts.log when deploying this image to an existing client. Notice that because the client certificates were not...

[May 13 Update] Thank you all for your patience. A hotfix to address this issue is now available for download here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2509007 -- Brian Huneycutt [Today's post is from Brian Huneycutt ] The Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering and Customer Support and...

[ Martin Li has provided today's post] The task sequence (TS) feature was introduced in Configuration Manger 2007 to enable Operating System deployment scenarios. As a good "side effect", it also provides a convenient mechanism for administrators to perform a series of arbitrary tasks on selected...

[Today's post is provided by Chaohao Xu ] If a Configuration Manager client has received and started an advertised operating system deployment task sequence, attempting to start another operating system deployment advertisement within a certain period of time might result in the deployment being ignored...

[In today's post Levi Stevens discusses an issue with USMT and Config Manager 2007 SP2] Problem Description When upgrading or reinstalling Windows XP to Windows 7 using USMT 4.0 to migrate system and user state, settings like Wallpaper and Network Printer mappings are not migrated. Running scanstate...