Configuration Manager Blog

Archive for April, 2011

While taking part of the first wave of the CEP sessions, the Migration subject was already be part of the program. Today as part of the rerun of the CEP, Migration is again on the program for today. Let’s see today if again Eric Ormar shows us some new Configuration Manager Beta2 features.

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The new version of System Center Configuration Manager 2012 is going to change the world of the System Center Administrator later this year for the best. The management and structure of SCCM 2012 is much more simplified and easier to manage. At the Microsoft Management Summit the beta2 version was released to the public.

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Missed the CM CEP session a couple of weeks ago because of technical issues with the livemeeting call which resulted in the fact that I couldn’t join the call. But as always you are able to download the recordings and the Powerpoint presentation.

Sr. Technical Product Manager Jeff Wettlaufer presented the overview of ConfigMgr 2012 Beta2.

System Center Configuration Manager 2012 is in the last view months of engineering and it will be out in the market in November this year.

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During the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago, Deployment guru Johan Arwidmark had a session about troubleshooting Configuration Manager 2007 OS Deployments. During this session Johan had a couple of nice tips to make the troubleshooting a little bit easier.

One of the tips was adding the “SMS Trace” (trace32.exe) tool to Windows PE and changing the log size of the smsts.log file. Normally this file has a maximum size of 1MB, after the file reaches the maximum size another smsts-<date>.log file will be created. Also this file has a limit of 1 MB and it will rollover when the maximum size is reached. With setting the maximum log size to a higher level no log entries will be lost. Read more