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Today another CEP session about Mobile Device Management in Configuration Manager 2012 was held. Since I attended earlier version this year, I will only write about the changes or new information. Today Hassen Karaa, Project Manager of the Configuration Manager 2012 Team, presented the session. Let’s see what’s new! Read more


Configuration Manager 2012 comes with an Exchange 2010 connector which allows you to manage your mobile devices that are synchronizing with Exchange 2010. The Exchange 2010 connector allows you to manage the Exchange 2010 mobile device policies from Configuration Manager 2012. Let’s see how this connector looks like!

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Like mentioned in an earlier blog the Application Model in Configuration Manager 2012 is changed drastically for the best. :) A new feature in Configuration Manager 2012 is that changes to an application will be stored into the Configuration Manager 2012 database as a revision. When you make a change to an application that is not good you are able to revert to an earlier revision. When playing around with Configuration Manager 2012 I wanted to delete my first application ;)

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This week I was triggered by a question on the support forum of the Configuration Manager 2012 CEP about a nice new feature in Configuration Manager 2012. With Configuration Manager 2012 you are able to service your OS Images by integrating the latest Software Updates from the Configuration Manager Console. Let’s see how this works.

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 Today another Configuration Manager 2012 Community Evaluation Program session was held, this time the subject was Settings Management. Program Manager Roger Kimble presented the latest information about Settings Management. Nice and I think one of the key features of Configuration Manager 2012.

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One of the major investments in Configuration Manager 2012 is the ability to monitor lots of processes in Configuration Manager 2012. In this blog, part four in the series of the features in Configuration Manager 2012, I would like to point out where the monitoring feature is available in the Configuration Manager Console. Of course you still can use System Center Operations Manager to monitor your Configuration Manager 2012 hierarchy.

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Today it was again time for the biweekly Community Evaluation Session again, this time the subject was Software Update Management in Configuration Manager 2012. Since the session was already held in January this year, most of the session of today covered foremost the changes since the last time the session was held. During the beginning of the session I noticed that the GUI was a little bit changed.

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In the series about the features of Configuration Manager 2012, earlier blogs mentioned, the new console, client settings, the application model and software center. Let’s talk today about another real nice and new feature within Configuration Manager 2012, Role Based Administration.

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At the Microsoft Management Summit earlier this year I attended a nice session about Software Delivery Advanced Topics and Troubleshooting. I this blog I want to write down the key take aways of this in-depth troubleshooting session.

 

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My last blog was about the new application model. While playing around with applications and deployment types in Configuration Manager 2012 I ran into a initially weird SMS Provider error. If it is a bug I don’t know, but let’s see what happened.

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