September, 2012

Overview Historically, a pull-based client communication mechanism is employed in the System Center Configuration Manager line of products. As a result, in large scale enterprise environments, when an administrator initiates a task, it would take minutes...

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: September 1, 2012 at the top of the topic. These updates...

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...

This is something we mentioned a few months ago but it’s such a great series I wanted to mention it again in case some of you missed it. Microsoft’s own Travis Wright spent quite a bit of time with customers over the last 6-12 months helping them plan...

We are announcing support changes for the following releases. These changes will be reflected in the Configuration Manager 2007 Supported Configurations and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Supported Configurations within the next month. Configuration...

Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Beta supports the management of Linux and UNIX servers. The clients for Linux and UNIX extends the scope of your Configuration Manager environment to collect inventory, deploy software, and run reports...

There are some files that you can use in order to activate or deactivate some features in Configuration Manager 2012 on client side or server side, such as preventing Software Inventory for a particular folder or preventing the installation of ConfigMgr...

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: August 1, 2012 at the top of the topic. A few topics are also...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about some issues you may see with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Application Evaluation if a third party deployment type is not registered properly on a client prior to a deployment...

The Beta of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (“SP1”) enables System Center customers to jointly evaluate System Center 2012 with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. The Beta is for evaluation purposes only and not to be used in production as described...

This blog post addresses the Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 support questions you’ve been asking about for Configuration Manager and Endpoint Protection. Question: Which versions of Configuration Manager will support Windows 8 and Windows...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where a backup task in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 may not work correctly if the backup destination folder contains a special character or the folder name ends...