System Center 2012 SP1 has finally GA!
The much long awaited System Center 2012 SP1 is finally Generally Available.
It also prepared with Evaluation VHD of all System Center solution.
Read here for more information.
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ConfigMgr 2012 Toolkit
All this while I downloaded ConfigMgr toolkit from myitforum and suddenly I this was posted in Microsoft Download Center. It’s a great component add-on that you won’t want to miss.
Download it here.
Overview
System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager Toolkit
The Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager Toolkit contains eleven downloadable tools to help you manage and troubleshoot Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 – Configuration Manager. The following list provides specific information about each tool in the toolkit.
- Client Spy – A tool that helps you troubleshoot issues related to software distribution, inventory, and software metering on System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager clients.
- Policy Spy – A policy viewer that helps you review and troubleshoot the policy system on System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager clients.
- Security Configuration Wizard Template for Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager – The Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) is an attack-surface reduction tool for the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. Security Configuration Wizard determines the minimum functionality required for a server’s role or roles, and disables functionality that is not required.
- Send Schedule Tool – A tool used to trigger a schedule on a client or trigger the evaluation of a specified DCM Baseline. You can trigger a schedule either locally or remotely.
- Power Viewer Tool – A tool to view the status of power management feature on System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager clients.
- Deployment Monitoring Tool – The Deployment Monitoring Tool is a graphical user interface designed help troubleshoot Applications, Updates, and Baseline deployments on System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager clients. This tool requires System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager or later.
- Run Metering Summarization Tool – The purpose of this tool is to run the metering summarization task to analyze raw metering data.
- Role-based Administration Modeling and Auditing Tool – This tool helps administrators to model and audit RBA configurations.
- Wakeup Spy – This tool shows network traffic and basic information about ConfigMgr wake up client state. This tool requires System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager or later.
- Content Library Transfer – This tool moves the content library from one drive to another drive.
- Content Ownership Transfer – This tool re-assigns orphaned packages to an active ConfigMgr site.
Microsoft MVP 2013 Award
What’s good and nice to be seen on New Year when you check your mailbox..
MVP award got renewed!
How to change Microsoft Office 2013 Product key
- Click on the button to open the Start Menu. Now, click on the Control Panel and then click on Programs (Uninstall a program), and click on Program and Features.
- From the list of programs, find Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 (or Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2013 or Microsoft Office Project Professional 2013), click on the software name you want to change, and then click on Change. In my case, it’s Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013.
- Once the dialog box is opened, select the Enter a Product Key option, and then click Continue.
- Type your new product key and check the option ‘Attempt to automatically activate my product online to automatically activate your Office 2013’ suite, then click on Continue and finally click on Install Now
**Please take note that the computer must be connected to the Internet if you want to reactivate Office 2013 online.You can also activate Office 2013 later.
HTML 500 error while viewing reports – IIS 7.x
A while back when I blogged about the same error was running a software report which returns more than 4000 records will show me the error as below.
There isn’t any aspbufferinglimit in Metabase.xml in IIS 7.x anymore. We can increase the buffer limits in IIS Management Console.
Here’s how:
1. Launch IIS Management Console, Locate ASP and double click to open ASP feature
2. Expand Limits Properties, then locate Response Buffering Limit
3. Change the number of Bits to your desired number.
4. Click Apply on the right pane.
5. Restart IIS services and re-run the report again.
Example MB to B conversion for your referral:
4MB = 4194304
6MB = 6291456
8MB = 8388608
10MB = 10485760
SCCM 2007 supports Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
MSFT has just released an update to enable manageability of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 in SCCM 2007 SP2. You may download the update here.
Additionally, this update adds Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 to the supported platform list in the following features:
- Software distribution
- Software update management
- Desired Configuration Management (DCM)
This update also fixes the following issues:
- Discovery Data Manager (DDM) does not create Client Configuration Requests (CCRs) for Windows 8-based computers that are discovered by using the Active Directory System Discovery.
- When the system processes a new power profile, the SMS Agent Host service (Ccmexec.exe) or the WMI Provider Host service (Wmiprvse.exe) stops unexpectedly.
Download Free Windows 8 ebook
Found this free Windows 8 ebook from Microsoft and I thought of repost it here for those who’s interested.
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