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We are a team of Microsoft Premier Field Engineers (PFEs) from the UK, specialising in System Center products, mainly Configuration Manager and Operations Manager.
A PFE works with Premier customers focussing on the health of a product, training, and maximizing the product's potential.
This blog is a collection of our notes and findings we believe and hope will be useful to others.
We hope you enjoy the blog!
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Migrating from WSUS to Configuration Manager
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8 months ago
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SaudM
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Hi Everyone, This is our first post in a long while, we've had our heads down ramping up on System Center 2012 and helping the first wave of early adopters. As part of some of the work we've done, we found one common scenario where customers are looking...
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Disabling User Program Notification for Virtual Applications
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over 2 years ago
by
Rob York
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I’ve been sitting on this for a little while, partly due to getting confirmation I wasn’t doing anything unsupported, partly because I haven’t had time and partly a couple of other reasons I won’t go in to! The good news...
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Modelling Conceptual Entities in a SCOM 2007 Management Pack
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over 2 years ago
by
Rob York
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Drum roll please…. Below is the first Operations Manager blog to be submitted to the Manageability Guys! Meaning we can now live up to our name as it isn’t just Configuration Manager articles. My OpsMgr knowledge is limited at best but...
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Testing SLP Availability
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over 2 years ago
by
Rob York
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Hi all, A quick one from me. Ever had site discovery issues on your client machine? You can stick one of the following into your web browser to confirm that the Server Locator Point is up and running: If you use AD Sites for boundaries...
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HELP! Where did the disk space on my Management Point go?
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over 2 years ago
by
Rob York
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Recently I was working with a customer and we found that their ConfigMgr Management Point had an unexpectedly low amount of disk space left. When we looked at this machine we found that there were lots of IIS Logs in the %SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\LogFiles...
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What Accounts Should I Be Using?
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over 2 years ago
by
Rob York
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Something which I have seen recently on a few occasions is that customers using the same credentials for ConfigMgr Client Push account and the Network Access Account. Sometimes, for simplicity sake the account is even a member of Domain Admins. It’s...
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Useful ConfigMgr Resources (Updated)
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over 2 years ago
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Rob York
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A while back (2 years to be precise) Saud posted a list of resources to do with ConfigMgr. Below is a well overdue update to that list: ConfigMgr Resources/Information: Learning : TechCenter on TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us...
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Improving ConfigMgr Console Performance - Removing the Action Pane
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over 2 years ago
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Rob York
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Sometimes I find that the console in ConfigMgr does not perform as quickly as I would like. My last blog post on this topic showed how we can speed up the boot time for the SCCM console by turning off a web check, but how about when I am in the console...
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Are My Backups Really Taking Place?
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over 2 years ago
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Rob York
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Something which I have seen as a recurring theme a few times with customers is with backups failing and them not realising. While, of course we would always recommend that you have a test environment with some Hyper-V images where you can always test...
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Improving ConfigMgr Console Performance - Disable TechCenter Homepage
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over 2 years ago
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Rob York
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In Configuration Manager 2007 does it take a while for the console to start? If so, then this little tip will help. The Console home page attempts to connect to Microsoft whenever you open up the console. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library...
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