Note: I’ve already posted this article a while ago, but since my ex-employer decided to whipe the whole website without asking me if I would like a backup it got lost. Therefore i decided to place it here again. Note that this is still valid for ConfigMgr 2012 installations, i’ve modified the article to reflect…
Author: Kenneth
Microsoft MVP Setup & Deployment
System Center Consultant
The self signed certificate could not be created successfully error in the Create Site System Server Wizard
Today, a customer contacted me with a very strange issue while installing a new Site System Server in his System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager environment. While adding a new Site System (in this case a distribution point) on the Distribution Point page of the Create Site System Server Wizard the customer got the following…
Windows Management User Group Netherlands: Meeting on the 17th of September
On Tuesday evening the 17th of September the Windows Management User Group Netherlands organizes its 3rd meeting. The announcement, which is in Dutch can be found here. The subject of the evening is virtualization, and its hosted by PQR and we have three fantastic speakers for this evening, session summaries will be communicated soon: Program:…
How to create ConfigMgr 2012 boot images from scratch
Today, after installing a fresh System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 environment, we experienced that the Boot images for both 32- and 64-bit were not created. The reason for this is already widely known, because it had to do with the virus scanner which was active at time of installation. There are already…
Introducing the Windows Management User Group Netherlands (WMUG NL)
Text below is in Dutch, together with Bob Cornelissen, Marnix Wolf and Peter Daalmans we created a new User Group called the Windows Management User Group Netherlands or in short WMUG.NL. With the user group we want to provide a platform for and by people involved with managing the Microsoft Windows platform. Our first session…
Role Based Access Control in ConfigMgr 2012: Part 4 Outcome
In the first part of this series I outlined what Microsoft changed in ConfigMgr 2012 in order to introduce Role Based Access Control. In the second part I outlined a possible scenario and started building the scenario. In the third part we mapped the business roles to the ConfigMgr roles and configured them in the…
Role Based Access Control in ConfigMgr 2012: Part 3 Mapping OpCo roles to ConfigMgr roles
In the first part of this series I outlined what Microsoft changed in ConfigMgr 2012 in order to introduce Role Based Access Control. In the second part I outlined a possible scenario and started building the scenario up to the point where the OpCo roles will be mapped to the ConfigMgr roles, this post will…
Role Based Access Control in ConfigMgr 2012: Part 2 Scenario
In the previous post I introduced Role Based Access Control in ConfigMgr 2012 as the new way to delegate administrative access to a ConfigMgr hierarchy. In this post I’m going to walk you through a scenario and show you how we can delegate the access in order to meet the requirements. The Scenario: The Customer…
Role Based Access Control in ConfigMgr 2012: Part 1 – Introduction
One of the reasons to install multiple primary sites in a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 hierarchy often was due to the fact that Administrative access had to be separated between different departments within a company. Within large companies mostly a Central Primary Site would be installed, not servicing any clients, and under that Central…
Techdays NL 2013: ConfigMgr 2012: Notes from the field
During Techdays, the annual event organized by Microsoft in the Netherlands, i had the honor of presenting a session together with Peter Daalmans, Microsoft MVP on ConfigMgr. Our session, named ConfigMgr 2012: Notes from the field discussed what’s new in both ConfigMgr 2012 and ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 and included our best practices and tips &…
Beware when installing ConfigMgr SP1 when still using vSphere 4 or running other platforms not supporting Windows 8 – UPDATED
Update: Microsoft has released CU2 for Configuration Manager 2012 Service Pack 1, allowing you to use Boot images based on Windows 7 from the WAIK again (with some contstraints but workable). See the KB 2854009 article for more information. See this article written by Brandon Linton from Microsoft for more information on how to import your…
Best practices for Implementing drivers in ConfigMgr
One of the most time consuming tasks when working with OS Deployment in ConfigMgr is implementing the drivers needed to support different hardware models. There are a couple of reasons for this: Determining if drivers installed correctly can only be determined by executing an actual Task Sequence, which takes a lot of time. Each Hardware…
How to add Branding to your OS Deployment in ConfigMgr 2012 – Part 3: Create Compliance Baseline
In part 1, I showed you how to enable the Branding to Reg steps, and where you could find the information in the registry. Part 2 showed you how you can extend what information is branded into the registry, and in this part I will show you how you can use Compliance Settings and Compliance…
How to add Branding to your OS Deployment in ConfigMgr 2012 – Part 2: Modify OSDBranding
In part 1 of this series, I showed you how to enable the Branding to Reg steps, so that during a Task Sequence some information about the Task Sequence is stored in the Registry under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MPSD\OSD. In this part, we are going to extend the information which is written to include some information we want…
How to add Branding to your OS Deployment in ConfigMgr 2012 – Part 1: Enable Branding
I’m a big fan of integrating the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit into ConfigMgr, but notice that I’m having a hard time to convince my customers (and some fellow Deployment enthusiasts) of the added value. Personally I think that has something to do with the overwhelming added functionality you get. Take for example the MDT created Task…