A customer of mine needed to check if a specific IP address was within any of the IP range boundaries that was present in ConfigMgr. I did some research on how this could be scripted, and found out that there’s a...
Maintenance Windows in ConfigMgr can help you a great deal to determine when installations will occur on your clients. Since the Maintenance Windows are configured per a collection basis, it’s recommended to have...
If you’ve ever worked with HP ProLiant servers before, you’re probably familiar with the HP Service Pack for ProLiant (HP SPP). As I’ve only worked with Dell servers before (it’s kind of fun that...
Microsoft has now released Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) for ConfigMgr 2012 R2. More details about the Cumulative Update is available here. Follow the steps in this guide to install the Cumulative Update in your ConfigMgr...
While troubleshooting a client that intermittently was reporting Waiting for content back to ConfigMgr, I found that the BITS transfer queue had gone total bananas. In this scenario I was pushing a firewall...
Microsoft has released a new hotfix that solves some problems that was discovered in ConfigMgr 2012 R2. One of them is the infamous slow download of WIM files during OSD. A specific hotfix for that issue was released...
Ever since I’ve started my new job as an Senior Consultant in Enterprise Client Management, I’ve been working with ConfigMgr every day. In the project I’m currently working with, we had to move the...
When you’re working with ConfigMgr 2012 and task sequences, these tend to fail now and then. I’ve previously blogged about how you can re-run a required task sequence that is deployed to a client where...
If you’re upgrading to ConfigMgr 2012 R2 and have modified the default boot images, you’ll notice that the upgrade process was unable to update those boot images to the latest version (6.3.9600.16384). This...
Status Message Queries are perhaps not the most explored and used feature of ConfigMgr 2012, but it’s a great way to get information about what’s happening in your environment. By using Status Message...