All articles about Microsoft System Center range of products.
As you may be aware, System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Beta has now been released. To get this, you can download from: Free Subscription If you want to be notified when we post more quality guides like this one, sign up to our free subscription service and you will receive an email when a…
Introduction We have situations where sometimes we need to use a USB stick for stand-alone imaging for our remote sites that are not connected to the network or do not have a local DP. In SCCM 2007, this was easy, just run through the wizard and that’s it, but we’ve come across an issue with SCCM 2012 whereas…
I’ve had a number of requests about how I created our email notification for requests for software made via our ConfigMgr software catalog. The solution is very simple and very basic, but until I get our Service Manager up and running (which does the job much better..), this is working for us so hopefully will…
I’ve been asked about deploying and registering OCX files, well this is how we do ours… Copy the INF and OCX files to a readily available location on the network. Also create two batch files (give the extension name of .cmd) with the following in each: Batch file 1 (File Copy): xcopy \LOCATION_OF_FILES*.* “c:\Windows\Downloaded Program…
This step by step guide will show you how to setup your System Center 2012 Configuration Manager to report to you the Autodesk software that is installed on your clients machines but will also give you the serial numbers for the software and what software package is installed. (If you find the pictures hard to…
Well we now have our new 2012 ConfigMgr up and running both in the lab and now in production – have to say that it was a very easy install and migration process and we’ve not really hit any problems. All the basics are in and working so we are now moving onto making the…
I’ve now been working on getting my ConfigMgr 2012 server up and running and it was actually really easy to do. All configured and working within a day without any major issues. Going to start doing some fancy things with it from here on in so if you have any questions, feel free to ask…
Like most other businesses, we have had the issue with users installing Google Earth on their work machines as they dont need local admin to install it. I’ve been looking into various ways of removing Google Earth using SCCM but most failed. I’ve found the simplest way to do this is to run the following…
In the second part of my blogs about capturing serial numbers using SCCM, in this one I’m going to go through how to report on Autodesk products which of course includes AutoCAD full version and LT versions. Update Please note that we do now recommend a new way of collecting Autodesk serial number information. So…
First you need to plug in a USB memory stick to the SCCM server. Please also be aware that the Windows XP image requires at least an 8GB memory stick and the Windows 7 image requires at least a 16GB memory stick. Once the stick is showing on the server as a usable device, go…
If you are looking at pushing out or just updating Adobe Flash Player via SCCM – follow this procedure. First download the latest version of flash player – usually filehippo.com is your best bet for this, but Google it and you’ll find the full download easily enough rather than the online install at adobe.com. You…
If you are looking for a good MSI packager to create MSI’s for deployment using SCCM – I recommend EMCO – you can get it for free and works a treat. Link below: EMCO Software Free Subscription If you want to be notified when we post more quality guides like this one, sign up to…
This is another fairly simple one – again no need to create a package, just a Program command line, this assumes that your clients have installed WinRAR to the standard default location – this can be changed if required… Then just push this out to a collection. My personal preference is to create a collection…
The best way to ensure Google Earth gets removes is to collect the Google Earth.msi file that is put into the %temp% directory when installed – but you have to make sure that you use the correct version for the version installed. So, create a report in SCCM for all Google Earth installs with file…
Package up Filemaker 11 Pro Install and run this command as your Program to distribute a silent and unattended install: This will then allow a fully silent and full installation process to take place. Free Subscription If you want to be notified when we post more quality guides like this one, sign up to our…
