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Just a quick FYI on a new KB article we published today. This one talks about an error you might get when running the ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 beta prereq check so if you’re not using the SP1 beta builds then this probably won’t be an issue for you. 2794128 ...read more

Cumulative Update 1 for ConfigMgr 2012 is now available. Below are the issues that are fixed: Administrator Console When a new distribution point is added to a package that contains more than 100 existing distribution points, the new distribution point ...read more

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue you might run into where trying to migrate a driver package to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager fails with "SCCM Provider is missing read, write, or delete privilege" ...read more

The good folks from the Configuration Manager product team just released a great article describing all of the documentation available for System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection and where to get it. So why is this coming from the Configuration Manager ...read more

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where changes to an App-V package may not get delivered when the app is deployed using ConfigMgr 2012. ===== Symptoms Consider the following scenario: You create a Microsoft ...read more

In System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, the ‘Backup Site Server’ maintenance task may fail if the Backup Destination is set to a network share. An example is below: When this happens, the following errors are logged: SMSSQLBKUP.LOG Error: Backup ...read more

Consider the following scenario: When running setup for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr 2012), in the Setup window you receive the following warnings: <A communication error has been detected between the specified site system and ...read more

Microsoft’s very own Scott Rachui put together another great self-study guide for System Center 2012, this time focusing exclusively on Configuration Manager. If you’re wanting to jump start your ConfigMgr 2012 expertise then this is where you want to ...read more

We’ve had a few questions regarding critical updates and WSUSSCN2.CAB so I thought I’d publish a quick explainer in case you were wondering the same. Question: Is security advisory KB2719615 going to be added for Microsoft Update Catalog in the near future ...read more

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where attempting to deploy the Integration Pack for .NET that comes with the Orchestrator Orchestration Integration Toolkit, it fails and logs an event ID 10005. ===== Symptoms ...read more

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where a ConfigMgr 2012 Task Sequence fails when using Stand-Alone Media. ===== Symptoms Task Sequence execution fails when using stand-alone media (USB flash drive or CD/DVD ...read more

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where using the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager CMTrace log viewer to review a log that contains a line exceeding 8000 characters causes the log to be truncated at ...read more

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where WDS doesn’t start on a PXE enabled remote Distribution Point in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager if Microsoft.VC90.CRT is not installed. ===== Symptoms After ...read more

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one describes an issue where a PXE enabled Distribution Point will generate a large number of files under C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\S-1-5-18 for each PXE request that it services on the ...read more

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one describes an issue where System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Software Center does not launch on a Windows XP client if Terminal Services is disabled. ===== Symptoms When starting Software ...read more

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one describes an issue where when performing hard-link migrations in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, the User State Migration Toolkit (USMT) state store becomes much bigger than anticipated ...read more

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one describes an issue where it may seem that a change is not saved in ConfigMgr 2012. ===== Symptoms When modifying the Deployment options of a Distribution Point in the Selected Deployment ...read more

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 ...read more

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one discusses an issue where after moving the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SQL Site Database to another drive, creating a new Software Update group, Software Update package, or creating ...read more

Hi everyone, Dennis Donahoe here with a couple tips on how to fix an issue you may see setting up a new install of Configuration Manager. In a new installation of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr), you may find that you cannot connect ...read more

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 ...read more

We are very happy to announce that seven of the Product Solution Centers on http://support.microsoft.com are featuring new Top Solutions sections that pull dynamically from the Top Solutions RSS feeds . The Top Solutions are usually listed on the page ...read more

Just a quick note on an issue you might see that can be a little bit confusing if you’re not aware of what’s going on. After migrating Software Update packages from System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, ...read more

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 ...read more

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 ...read more