Author: martin

  • SCCM 2012 – To CAS or not to CAS, that is the question

    System Center 2012 Configuration Manager ist now available nearly since more than 1 and a half-year, and the biggest question to start a new Project is to decide wether to build a hierarchy with a Central Administration Site (CAS) or without. Read more, that you can consider if you want to build a CAs or…

  • SCCM 2012 SP1 – Windows Phone 8 Portal App and Azure Active Directory allowed characters

    Hey, here’s Martin again. I faced the Problem, that I could not Rollout the Company Portal app to a Windows Phone 8 Device. Well, I thought that this might be the Problem, but later more… Everything started with my new Windows Phone 8 Device, and the possibility to manage this Device through System Center 2012…

  • SCCM 2012 – Multiple SMS Providers

    When you’re running a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager hierarchy with secondary sites, then you often have also to give some people in the secondary sites rights, as example, to add a Computer to the SCCM hierarchy. So, they will have to use the console, but where do they have to connect?

  • SCCM 2012 SP1 – Azure AD Password synchronization

    When you want to Support Mobile Devices with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1, you will set up an Intune Connection.  For User authentication, you have several Options:

  • SCCM 2012 – RBAC: Add computer to SCCM

    ,

    Hey, here’s Martin again. You often come across to the requirement, that you have give access to users to the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Console, that they can add new Computers to the Hierarchy to stage them with a Task Sequence. They only have to add them to a specific collection, nothing more: with Role…

  • SCCM 2012 SP1 – Install Console on Remote Client

    ,

    So, my last blog entry Tasks about, what to do, when the Report Viewer is missing, when using a remote console. And yes, I wanted to know, why the Report Viewer is missing. This is why I renew the post about installing the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Console on a remote console.

  • SCCM 2012 SP1 – Reports on Remote Admin Console

    ,

    Hey, here’s Martin again. Recently i made a post about create custom reports, now I faced the Problem, that I could not open any of my reports through the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Console installed on a remote Client. Right click on a Report and choose Run, nothing happend.

  • SCCM – SCUP Database with multiple users

    ,

    Hey, here’s Martin again 🙂 When you use System Center Update Publisher together with System Center Configuration Manager (even 2007 or 2012), you will get to the Trouble, that when multiple Users want use SCUP, they all got their own Database in their Profile Directory.  This means, that other users don’t see, which Updates are…

  • SCCM 2012 – Create Report with SQL Report Builder

    ,

    In this post I would like to Show, how to create a Basic Report with System Center 2012 Configuration Manger SP1. Besides your SCCM 2012 Installation you will need Access to the Report Service and have installed the SQL Report builder. Let’s say you will a simple Report, that Shows the Resource ID, NetBios Name…

  • SCCM 2012 – Reboot after Installation in Maintenance Window

    ,

    When you patch your Server automatically, and also want to reboot the machines when a maintenance window is active, that is quite easy. Modify the Settings of the specific collection, I would recommend to use collections created for the use of maintenance window only, in this example, we have a short window of 45 minutes: