In the course of evaluating ConfigMgr 2012 in my lab, I ran into an issue where my Primary site would be in read-only mode. This only occured when using the Primary site along with a Central Administration Site; a standalone Primary site would not exhibit this issue. Another blog explained my issue perfectly, but they…
So I’ve done a few one-liner’s in PowerShell to more efficiently collect certain information about a server, folder, etc, but today I wrote what I consider to be my first real PowerShell script. It should be no coincidence that today’s workday was the conclusion of a week of PowerShell training from Microsoft. Anyway, the concept…
I recently had a need to examine the last refresh time of a large number of SCCM collections. We had a group of collections which are used to define maintenance windows for various servers, and we wanted to ensure that all these collections were updating regularly (and to fix the ones that weren’t). Normally, I…
I posted previously about attending a Microsoft authorized training course on Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (officially shortened to ConfigMgr, but commonly referred to as SCCM). After that course, I had intended on taking the exam but as the product was not one in which I was involved with regularly, and some life stuff that…
At the office, we’re starting to deploy the Microsoft System Center suite, beginning with the Configuration Manager tool. This tool is the next version of Microsoft’s System Management Server (or SMS). In order to get up to speed, I was sent to a local Microsoft authorized training facility. The class is 5 days long and covers everything…