Configuration Manager Blog

Archive for January, 2011

Installing System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 is supported but you need to configure some extra IIS features which don’t need to be configured when installing SCCM 2007 on for instance Windows Server 2003. In this blog I will write about the prerequisites to be able to install SCCM 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2.

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As part of the Community  Evaluation Community the 8th live meeting about System Center Configuration Manager 2012 was scheduled for today. The main subject was Software Update Management in SCCM 2012.

At TechEd in Berlin and during the Live Meeting Microsoft showed the key investments they made regarding Software Updates. For the Configuration Manager Administrator as well as for the End User life regarding Software Updates is getting better. Since the beta1 of SCCM 2012 was released a lot of enhancements were made in the Management of Software Updates.

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Last Friday the Exchange Connector for SCSM 2010 was finally released and is a welcome enhancement for System Center Service Manager SP1. With the Exchange Connector you are able to monitor an Exchange Server 2007/2010 mailbox where people from your company can send their new, or updated incidents to. The connector is used to monitor the mailbox of the workflow service account. Unfortunately you cannot monitor a custom Exchange mailbox.

The installation of the connector is well documented in the deployment guide, but after installing and configuring some issues with the registry occured. 

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When playing around with the System Center Service Manager 2010 Self Service Portal, I wanted to create more portals on the same server. The basic steps of creating a secondary portal are well documented in several blogs around the Internet. But when following the steps a couple of trivial parts are missing. In this blog I will write down the complete steps to follow if you want to add one or more Self Service Portals to System Center Service Manager 2010 SP1.

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