Today Roel van Bueren released the 1.0 (RTM) version of Setup Commander during his session about “Simplifying Windows Application Deployment with Setup Commander“ at our Windows Management User Group NL meeting. As from now the Setup Commander comes as two editions. One free, standard version and professional version for which you need to get a subscription.
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It has been a while since I wrote about my top 10 new features of ConfigMgr 2012 Service Pack 1. Have been busy with setting up our new User Group (WMUG NL), preparing presentations, writing other blogs and contributing to the upcoming book of Kent Agerlund (System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager: Mastering the Fundamentals). Busy times between working and all other hobbies 
Let’s finish this blog series with my number 10 in the list of new features, the support of App-V 5.0. With R2 coming up lot’s of new features can be added to a new top 10, so stay tuned
TechEd North America is going strong and more and more information is shared with the attendees and community. In this blog I will try to share some of the highlights about the Mobile Device Management enhancements that will come with ConfigMgr 2012 R2 and the next version of Windows Intune.
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For our WMUG NL members the following in Dutch / English…. 
Op maandag 17 juni hebben we tijdens de tweede WMUG NL bijeenkomst Wally Mead op bezoek. Wally komt ons bijpraten over de Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 en de deze week gepresenteerde opvolger: Configuration Manager 2012 R2. Ook komt Roel van Bueren ons vandaag in een technische sessie bijpraten over Setup Commander, de eerste officiele release wordt op deze WMUG NL bijeenkomst gepresenteerd. Vandaag kunnen we met trots het programma presenteren, schrijf je snel in want de (gratis) kaarten zijn beperkt beschikbaar. Schrijf je hier in. Meer informatie over de WMUG NL is hier te vinden.
Yesterday was a very big day for Microsoft, not only ConfigMgr 2012 R2 and the new version of Windows Intune were announced but also Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014. During the Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 – Configuration Manager Overview session, held at TechEd NA yesterday, some nice new R2 features were shown. Be sure to watch this session or join us at the WMUG NL meeting at the 17th of June where Wally Mead is joining us to talk about ConfigMgr 2012 and Windows Intune.
As an Enterprise Client Manager you need to of course use the Windows Intune integration in Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 to be able to manage also your mobile devices next to all other Windows, Unix, Linux and MAC OS-X devices.
When setting up Dirsync to synchronize the active directory account to Windows Azure Active Directory, you need to configure the administrator account to get access to this service. After 90 days the password of this account will expire by default and the synchronization will fail since you need to change the password.
Today I was at one of my customers and looked at an issue that my Clean up Powershell script was not working anymore. While troubleshooting I noticed that the script was exited with a Quota Violation error, since they also has some WMI issues since a power outage a couple of weeks ago I thought it was a WMI issue like described here.
Today some little quick tips about some features in the CMTrace tool which I didn’t use and haven’t noticed before, you all did know about it I presume So see this blog as a note to myself We all know that Wally Mead prefers using Notepad.exe when looking at the log files of the Configuration Manager Servers and Clients. Others use the CMTrace.exe utility which you can use to analyze the log files. Besides looking up error descriptions like shown below you are also able to do other things.
When pressing on the Values box in the Query builder while creating a Collection in ConfigMgr you might run into an error that states that “The operation has completed successfully, but the information list has been truncated to the maximum configured count of 2000 items.” For SMS 2.0 and ConfigMgr 2007 there was a registry key that you were able to configure to see more items.
Error connecting to the Primary Site
When using a service account to run for instance my “cleaning ConfigMgr” Powershell script you may run in to an error. When trying to access the Windows PowerShell drive that is mapped to your Primary Site you will receive the following error: “set-location : Cannot find drive. A drive with the name <primary site> does not exist.” (see figure on the left) I see the same behavior when for instance running a Powershell script from System Center Orchestrator 2012 to change settings in Configuration Manager 2012 SP1.
Peter Daalmans
Technical Consultant and Enterprise Client Management (Configuration Manager/Windows Intune) MVP with Microsoft partner IT-Concern with a primary focus on the System Center Suite and Microsoft Exchange. Writing blogs and sharing his knowlegde on ConfigMgrBlog.com.
Co-author of Mastering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager book from Sybex.
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