When you install the latest cumulative update for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM), it automatically creates 4 new packages for client, server and console updates. If you forget to clean up after each update, you’ll end up a situation like this: Unfortunately the SCCM user interface does not support multiselect and delete, so if you want to delete all these packages, you need to walk through the delete wizard for each package. That is both extremely boring but also takes a lot of time. So I wrote this little PowerShell script that will delete all post SCCM 2012 CU4…
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This morning, I got call from one of our internal SCCM Admins that wanted to test the newly released SCCM 2012 R2 CU4 update in his lab environment. He had multiple test installations so he just picked an old one that he hadn’t used in a while and, without checking anything, he just ran the setup. He did follow my Quick Start Guide but he skipped the preparing and checking part. What could possible go wrong? Setup did update the Site successfully but when the creation of the packages started, the setup failed. He knows that I always like to…
Today (on February 2nd or the 3rd, 2015, depending on your current time zone) Cumulative Update (CU) 4 for ConfigMgr 2012 R2 was released. It’s a great update. Not only does it contains 25 updates but also 32 PowerShell fixes and 35 new PowerShell cmdlets. Amazing! Can’t wait to get this baby deployed in production Here’s a list of issues that are fixed: Client (1 fix) Software Distribution and Application Management (6 fixes) Network Access Protection (1 fix) Operating System Deployment (2 fixes) Administrator Console (1 fix) Site Servers and Site Systems (6 fixes) Mobile Devices (4 fixes) Migration (1…
Here is a list of all the 35 NEW cmdlets that was added in System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager CU4. More information and examples will be added to this post later. Add-CMDeploymentTypeDependency Add-CMDeploymentTypeSupersedence ConvertFrom-CMApplication ConvertFrom-CMConfigurationItem ConvertTo-CMApplication ConvertTo-CMConfigurationItem Get-CMClientOperation Get-CMCertificate Get-CMDeploymentTypeDependency Get-CMDeploymentTypeDependencyGroup Get-CMDeploymentTypeSupersedence Get-CMMigrationSource Get-CMObjectSecurityScope Get-CMQuery Get-CMSiteRole Invoke-CMQuery Invoke-CMSystemDiscovery Invoke-CMUserDiscovery Invoke-GroupDiscovery New-CMADGroupDiscoveryScope New-CMDeploymentTypeDependencyGroup New-CMEmbeddedObjectInstance New-CMEmbeddedProperty New-CMEmbeddedPropertyList New-CMQuery Remove-CMCollection Remove-CMDeploymentTypeDependency Remove-CMDeploymentTypeDependencyGroup Remove-CMDeploymentTypeSupersedence Remove-CMQuery Set-CMDeploymentTypeDependency Set-CMDeploymentTypeDependencyGroup Set-CMDeploymentTypeSupersedence Set-CMQuery Sync-CMMigrationSource /Enjoy
Introduction Installing this update is very similar to previous versions but a few things have changed since I did the last post on CU updates. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the upgrade process step-by-step in a standalone primary scenario. The full list of fixes and a link to request the hotfix is available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3026739/ As always, you should start by checking the health of the system, verify the backup, etc. At a minimum, you should check the following: Install any missing updates (security, critical and important). Verify you don’t have a pending restart. Verify that you…
Last night (or early this morning, depending on your timezone), Microsoft released the next Cumulative Update (CU3), for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. More Information: 2994331 – Description of Cumulative Update 3 for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager 2999304 – Description of Windows PowerShell changes in Cumulative Update 3 for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager This update also allows you to configure a client to use a specific management point by setting a registry value. For more information about this feature check this blog post by Justin Chalfant. The new version/build number of CU3 is 5.00.7958.1401 I’ve…
When you first install the Reporting Services Point in System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager (SCCM), it comes with 468 built in reports, and all these great reports uses the default System Center banner. The default banner is a really nice banner, but I often get the question from some of my customers “How to we replace the default SCCM report banner with our company branded banner?”. So I decided to make this blog post that explains how this can be done. Actually, it’s a really simple task, but it can’t be done directly from the UI. First we need…
A few weeks ago I was working with a customer on a global SCCM Project where the use of Pull Distribution Points would be a huge benefit to reduce WAN traffic between some of the major sites. So we ordered a few new (virtual) servers and installed the Distribution Point Role. Everything looked ok, so we moved on and enabled the Pull Distribution Point option, but we couldn’t specify any source for the Pull Distribution Point. I went back to my lab, where I tried to reproduce this behaivor, but in my lab everything worked just fine. But my lab…
System Center 2012 R2 components are now fully supported on the newly released updates for Windows Server 2012 R2 (KB2919355). The update can be applied to the latest version of System Center 2012 R2. The CU1 update for SCCM 2012 R2 is not required but highly recommended. More information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2949669
Last week I had the great honor to speak at two Microsoft Next events in Århus and Copenhagen. Microsoft Next is the main launch event in Denmark, for the new Windows versions and the System Center 2012 R2 wave, so many customers, partners and most of the danish press, was attending the keynote, ready to hear what Microsoft and some on the solution partners had to offer with all these new technologies available… My presentations was two joined session with Louise Harders, the Product Manager for Windows in Denmark. The main focus of our sessions was some of the new…