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Bitlocker is a nice tool from Microsoft which allows you to Encrypt the hard disc, however enabling it isn’t as simple as pressing a switch or simply adding a step to your task sequence, you will really have to spend … Continue reading →

In Part 1. of this series we Installed vNext, in Part 2 we started to configure it. In this part we will continue configuring Beta 2 by enabling Active Directory discovery methods, adding some site system roles, configuring the computer … Continue reading →

Looking for BitLocker info ? the following should help, the list below is Bit Locker info compiled from several sources. BitLocker Support 1. – http://blogs.technet.com/b/inside_osd/archive/2008/04/08/bitlocker-support.aspx   Two builtin steps for managing BitLocker Drive Encryption during a task sequence are provided: … Continue reading →

just noticed this and wanted to share in case you missed it, these quizzes are great and if you are interested in keeping up to speed with Configmgr you should definetly take a look at them This new version of … Continue reading →

Step 1. Download the Hotfix In this example we’ll be applying the following hotfix, KB2509007 (Task sequence that installs many updates stops responding on a System) and as always we need to get the hotfix from Microsoft here. The following … Continue reading →

In Part 1. of this series we Installed vNext, now we will start to configure it. Quote In Configuration Manager 2012, a boundary is a network location that can contain one or more devices that you want to manage. Boundaries … Continue reading →

I’ve just finished reading a great new book called Mastering Windows 7 Deployment from Sybex by Aidan Finn [MVP] (and Darril Gibson and Kenneth van Surksum [MVP]). The book is 482 pages and well worth reading from start to finish … Continue reading →

While troubleshooting some weird site replication issues today it was decided that we needed to force a sync of our SCCM 2007 site with it’s parent as the child primary was missing some OSD advertisements. So after some research the … Continue reading →

If you’ve been following my previous series of guides on Vnext, then you’ll know where this is going, we are going to install vNext beta 2 from scratch and configure it, use it, test it. Step 1. Create the Lab … Continue reading →

If you’d like to review the content I covered in todays LiveMeeting (for the Swedish System Center User Group – SCUG.SE) then you can download the Powerpoint here (in English)  Deploying Windows 7 with Configuration Manager 2007.pptx (1.67MB) I’ll post … Continue reading →

Introduction: After a lot of development and testing and countless changes it’s time to release version 1.0 of the windows-noob.com FrontEnd HTA. This HTA can be used by Network administrators/techs to quickly make choices about Deployment Type (Backup, Reinstall, New … Continue reading →

Came across this today and thought i’d blog about it, I was trying to repair WMI on a users computer today (SCCM client issues pointed to corrupt WMI/XP…) but couldn’t stop the windows Management Instrumentation service as a service (Vmware … Continue reading →

If you live in Europe you’ll most likely need to deploy some additional languages on top of English Windows 7. To achieve this we can add them at the Build and Capture stage or indeed in our Deploy Windows 7 … Continue reading →

During Build and Capture you’ll most likely want to have the latest Windows Updates in your Capture Image and as part of the Build and Capture process, your computer will be in a Workgroup. This presents some challenges in that … Continue reading →

In part one of this guide, we prepared Office 2010 X86 by downloading the files required (including the OCT), and created our own MSP file. Now we will add that customised package to ConfigMgr. Step 1. Create the Office 2010 … Continue reading →