Configuration Manager OSD - All Comments

re: Configuration Manager 2012: PXE Setup and Boot Image Management

Ashish Kumar - System Center Engineer — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:25:26 GMT

Hi Paul024

PXE is part of the Distribution Point in ConfigMgr 2012, therefore you have to make that server a DP and enable PXE on it. You can chose not to distribute package to it and use it only for PXE.

re: Configuration Manager 2012: Offline Servicing for Operating System Images

scarneol — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:05:07 GMT

Sure would be nice to include the minimum permissions (RBAC) required to perform off-line servicing. Everyone always assumes we've been assigned the Full Administrator Role and never include the minimum permissions required to perform actions like this in SCCM 2012.

re: Configuration Manager 2012: Distribution Points and PXE Services

IM5FOOTNOTHIN — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:37:55 GMT

John,

Are there any updates in ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 to the following comment (from the link below) for PXE service points scalability guidelines?...

"In Configuration Manager 2007 our capacity planning states “Up to 10 PXE service points per site, with a maximum of 75 PXE service points per primary site database” from the following link? One of the reasons for this is due to reliance on the Site Component Manager. Learning from our customers requirements, we have redesigned portions of our PXE service point. Starting with Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2 the PXE service point is a property of the Distribution Point role and no longer a separate site system. Since it is a property of the distribution point, it no longer monitored or installed by SiteComp. This is now done by Distribution Manager. With this change, it will allow Configuration Manager 2012 to improve the capacity beyond the numbers published for Configuration Manager 2007."

Ad(Thanks)vance!

re: Configuration Manager 2012: Content Management

Babatola.Oresajo — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:48:28 GMT

Hello John,

I have a confusing issue with content distribution and association.

Here is the scenario:

We have a primary location (HQ) with multiple branches.

The branches are over a WAN link

We do not expect any administration at the branches, all has to be done centrally. However we want systems in each branch to pick definition updates from their local branches and not across the WAN.

Our Approach.

SCCM site server installed in HQ

Site systems (distribution points) was installed in all the branches.

boundaries were automatically created for site assignment

new boundaries were created based on branch ip address range. these branch boundaries were associated with corressponding branch boundary group.Each branch boundary was configured for content management, and the DP in the branch was made the reference point.

Endpoint protection ADR was configured to download and distribute content to the DPs in the branches.

please can you analyse this strategy

re: Configuration Manager 2012: Offline Servicing for Operating System Images

Levi Stevens — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 22:30:50 GMT

Are there any other limitations not documented? For example, the WIM I have has to indexes, one for 32-bit and one for 64-bit. The "Schedule Updates" is grayed out on the console. Is this supported?

re: SP1 Setup Changes – System Center 2012 Configuration Manager

John.V — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:29:49 GMT

At this time System Center 2012 Configuration Manager only supports deploying Windows Operating Systems

re: SP1 Setup Changes – System Center 2012 Configuration Manager

Trevor Sullivan — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:38:07 GMT

Excellent -- looking forward to the release of SP1. By the way, will there be good documentation on deploying non-Microsoft operating systems? I never really touch them, so I'm pretty clueless when it comes to deploying Mac OS X or Linux type OS's.

Cheers,

Trevor Sullivan

re: Configuration Manager 2012: User Device Affinity and OS Deployment

DwightMaloney — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:40:54 GMT

John,

Do you have a followup post regarding the last step in the process "User Targeted Applications Set for Pre-Deploy Install"? I am looking for information about how this works since there is no step you can create in the task sequence called "Install User Affinity Applications"... etc.

re: Configuration Manager 2012: PXE Setup and Boot Image Management

Paul024 — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:58:02 GMT

We are planning to do a clean migration from 2007 to 2012. Can we share the same PXE server? and can we just have PXE point and not use at a distribution point?

re: Configuration Manager 2012: PXE Setup and Boot Image Management

John.V — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:21:56 GMT

The boot image needs to be on the PXE distribution Point that services the PXE requests. Generally you setup PXE forwarding on the routers to a specific server. That delivers the initial boot image. At that point the client agent in the boot image will find the nearest distribution point for the remaining content.