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Dec04

ConfigMgr SCCM 2012 SP1 Upgrade Checklist

Microsoft has released the check list for Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 upgrades. Download the evaluation version of CM 2012 SP1 from here. Also, be aware of know issues of CM 2012 SP1 from here. Re download the CM 2012 SP1 if you’ve downloaded it before 25-Jan-2012. There are updates in the binaries. More details here. How to update client to SCCM 2012 SP1? What are the options available this will be the next challenge. More information on client upgrade to SP1 here. There is a Cumulative Update 1 for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1. CU1 resolves Known Issues of SP1. More details about CU1 fixes here.

Few Eye Catching Bullet Points

1. Top to Down approach. Need to upgrade the CAS server (if you’ve one) first then primary and it’s secondary servers.

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May21

NEW Veeam Backup and Replication v7 with Built-in WAN Acceleration

One more enhancement with Veeam Backup & Replication v7. Built-in WAN Acceleration is the newest enhancement that they’ve announced part of count down and this is part of “Disruptive innovations” . There are another 50+ enhancements in Veeam Backup & Replication v7. Build-in WAN acceleration includes global caching, variable length dedupe, traffic compression, TCP/IP optimizations (multi-threading, provisions for high latency links) and resume on disconnect.

As per the blog post here on Veeam blog. You can install WAN accelerators on existing proxies and repositories. Just install a WAN accelerator component at the source site and at the target site, and you’re ready to go. We estimate that WAN-accelerated backup transfers will be up to 50x faster than a traditional file copy across the WAN. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May16

ConfigMgr 2012 Tip Not Able to Create Requirement for Deployment Type

One more quick ConfigMgr 2012 Role Based Administration (RBA) tip. I’ve already published a series of posts about RBA Gotchas and troubleshooting tips here. This is again a quick and short post related to RBA and Security Scopes. When you’ve a multi-tiered hierarchy (something similar to the setup which I’ve mentioned in my previous posts and referred above), you’ll have to spent some time while doing the design of security role, security scopes in SCCM 2012.

Here is the scenario. When “Application Administrator” (Default Security Role comes with CM 2012) tries to ”create requirement” for new app model –> deployment type then he could not find any of the default condition drop down list. So just give a background, these conditions you see in create requirement window are nothing but “Global Conditions“. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May09

ConfigMgr 2012 Tip about the Option Require the Site server to Initiate Connection to this Site System

Have you ever noticed importance of the option “Require the site server to Initiate Connection to this Site System” in Site System Properties? Is this option really useful? Yes, it’s very important and useful when you’re deploying Remote Site Systems to untrusted forest/s. If you think about untrusted forest scenario, there is “no way” the remote site system can contact your site server (by default). Whereas, site server can initiate connection with remote site system using “site system installation account”.

Once you select “the site server to initiate connection” option for a remote site system. The site server initiate a connection and it will copy all the required files to respective folders in site server. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May07

Advantages of Using SolarWinds System Center Extension Pack

Customized monitoring of wide range of 3rd applications in SCOM/OpsMgr 2012 is now possible via Solarwinds System Center Extension pack. Solarwinds System Center Extension Pack includes “Server & Application Monitor (SolarWinds-SAM-v5.5.0-Eval-p857 )” and “System Center Management Pack ( System-Center-Management-Pack-v2.1.0) . It also provides native support for more than 150 applications including IBM® DB2, Apache™, Oracle® & more. You can download the free train version of Solarwinds System Center Extension Pack from here