I recently conducted an audit of all software inventory rules set within the various environments my team manages. I wanted to perform this audit for several reasons; one of which was to ensure there were no “*.exe” rules still lingering in any environment. In this blog I’ll show how...

Have you been looking for a way to visually see the status of SQL replication within your System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) environment? If you have, keep reading; this blog introduces three custom reports I use for watching replication in a ConfigMgr client environment here at Microsoft...

In this second blog of mine, along with my coworker Partha Chandran, we are going to talk about the Distribution Point migration from Configuration Manager 2007 using the migration feature of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. Before we dive into the steps that are involved in the actual migration...

In case you haven't seen these links, there are two new papers published on how Microsoft deployed ConfigMgr in our desktop environment. Quite a few of the blog posts on this System Center in Action page are related to the work that went into the deployment over a two year time period. The first paper...

Are you headed to the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2012 this year? This event (already sold out!) is one of our favorite conferences, not to mention that the event is in sunny Las Vegas. MMS provides a great opportunity to meet with other IT Professionals and to talk shop about managing & monitoring...

Hi, I am Naveen Kumar Akkugari and I work at Microsoft in the Management Platforms and Service Delivery (MPSD) organization. I work on the Configuration Manager Infrastructure team which provides services to roughly 300,000 client machines at Microsoft. Below I share the process we followed to migrate...

Hi, my name is Dharmendra Thotakura. I am an engineer at Microsoft, and I specialize in Configuration Manager Application Management, Application Catalog, Role Based Access and User Device Affinity. For my first post on this System Center in Action blog, I am going to share some of our experiences with...

Bryan Allen and Mike DeGooyer will be presenting on Thursday, November 10th about their deployment experience in Microsoft IT with Configuration Manager 2012. They've gotten beyond 150,000 clients on Configuration Manager 2012 - over half of the 280,000 clients managed at Microsoft using Configuration...

One of the folks on our team just posted about his infrastructure experience in MSIT migrating to System Center Configuration Manager 2012. Read about his experience here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shitanshu/archive/2011/10/16/configuration-manager-2012-deployment-real-world-experience-part-1.aspx

Hi folks, I am Arun Chengi and I manage a team of very talented individuals who work tirelessly in delivering various software delivery services at Microsoft and to several external customers we manage. I have been in the IT industry for nearly 20 years and been in Microsoft over 6+ years. The organization...

Hi all, I am Karthik Jayavel and I work in MPSD on Settings Management (Desired Configuration Management), Power Management and Mobile Device Management. In this blog entry we are going to walk through the implementation of Exchange Connector feature. Before System Center Configuration Manager (Configuration...

One of the benefits of dogfooding is to be able to use new technology before it's fully released. System Center Configuration Manager 2012 has some great new features and our team is doing more than just testing it - they're deploying it across 150,000 clients to really see how it works and how it can...