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We are announcing support changes for the following releases. These changes will be reflected in the Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Supported Configurations and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Supported Configurations topics within the next month ...read more

The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: April 1, 2013 at the top of the topic. There were no significant updates to the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation ...read more

We are pleased to announce that we’ve just published a new quiz in our popular series of quizzes for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. This new quiz tests your knowledge of many of the new features and functionality in Configuration Manager ...read more

Most customers who want to manage Mac computers using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 will use the enrollment tool, CMEnroll. This tool allows users with an Active Directory account to install the Configuration Manager client and automatically ...read more

We’ve got a great lineup of Unified Device Management sessions at MMS 2013 covering both System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and Windows Intune. Dive into feature areas such as managing heterogeneous devices, mobile device management, advanced ...read more

We are pleased to announce that the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Upgrade Assessment Tool (UAT) has been released and can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center here . The Upgrade Assessment Tool (UAT) is a feature download ...read more

Cumulative Update 1 for Configuration Manager SP1 is now available as a hotfix download via KB 2817245 . In addition to various issue fixes, this update also includes the following: New and revised Windows PowerShell cmdlets: KB 2817245 contains ...read more

The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: March 1, 2013 at the top of the topic. We also released a Windows PowerShell for Configuration Manager help update ...read more

In the Service Pack 1 release of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, we’ve made some significant changes to software update points, and I want to talk about those here. So what’s changed with software update points in Service Pack 1 ...read more

In System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1, we've added the ability to set multiple software update points per primary site. This change allows for placing software update points cross-forest, and providing fault tolerance without requiring ...read more

Welcome to installment #2. In case you missed installment #1 - Getting Started – here’s the link . With the Getting Started blog, you tried a few basic Windows PowerShell cmdlets. I hope you took a bit of time to explore what other cmdlets ...read more

With the SP1 release of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, we now have the ability to connect to Windows Intune to manage mobile devices via the Internet. This allows you to use the Configuration Manager console to provision mobile devices, apply ...read more

Hello Configuration Manager administrators. It’s time to get acquainted with Windows PowerShell! We’ve finally introduced native Windows PowerShell support with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1. Many of you know that Windows ...read more

The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: February 1, 2013 at the top of the topic. This month’s ...read more

It is often surprising to me how what may seem like innocuous decisions on how to configure settings in Configuration Manager can lead to very different performance results. A case that has come up recently is the difference between using IP subnet based ...read more

We’re pleased to announce a new release of the downloadable documentation for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. The downloadable files contain the product documentation for Configuration Manager with no service pack and for Configuration ...read more

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 ...read more

Over the last few days customers observed Asset Intelligence (AI) synchronization failures on System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 sites. AIUpdateSvc.log entries similar to the following were recorded. Error InternalError during ...read more

Hi everyone, my name is Kerim Hanif. I am a Program Manager in the Configuration Manager team responsible for content distribution. In Configuration Manager SP1 we introduced two new distribution points, the Cloud-based Distribution Point and the Pull ...read more

The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: January 1, 2013 at the top of the topic. This month’s publication sees the official release of the documentation ...read more

The installation files for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the associated Endpoint Protection for Linux OS and Macintosh OS were refreshed on January 25, 2013. The SP1 media was updated across all distribution channels ...read more

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 ...read more

We’ve been getting a few support calls regarding an issue with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and the recently released Windows Management Framework 3.0 update KB2506143 . Management points that are collocated with the client are experiencing ...read more

Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) for Configuration Manager is now available as a hotfix download via KB 2780664 . In addition to several new fixes, this latest update includes all fixes previously released under Cumulative Update 1 . Note that all of the items ...read more

The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: November 1, 2012 at the top of the topic. These updates include ...read more