TCSMUG - Twin Cities Systems Management User Group

Written by Brian Mason on 11 April 2014.

CM12 R2 and SQL14 - Sneak Peek

Does Microsoft support SQL 2014 on ConfigMgr 2012 R2 yet? Nope. But we should get word soon about it and I'm basing that speculation on the fact that I went ahead and tried SQ14 in my lab last week...

Created on 11 April 2014.

Written by Brian Mason on 31 March 2014.

Considerations for Enabling Distributed Views on a CAS

So what are distributed views and why use them? I recently posted about an issue where I was forced into enabling distributed views (DV) for my primary sites. Technically, I enabled DV for the...

Created on 31 March 2014.

Written by Brian Mason on 13 March 2014.

Be CAS I told you not to! More CAS pain points with CM12

Well I told you not to install a CAS, didn’t I? But of course I no choice since my team supports the servers that manage 365K clients. Well, we had one heck of a week last month. It started...

CMCB, DRS, CAS

Created on 13 March 2014.

Written by Brian Mason on 07 December 2013.

CM12 R2 Toolkit

I just tweeted a while ago that I couldn't wait to get my hands on the new Toolkit for R2 because one of the new tools, the Collection Evaluation Viewer, is something that should really help us keep...

CMCB

CAS issue number 5000. Migration and boundaries.

Scenario: You have a CAS (stupid; don't do it unless you have 100K site or more!) You have a CM07 hierarchy and a CM12 hierarchy both running at the same time managing clients. Move all subnets out...

Created on 25 November 2013.

Written by Brian Mason on 13 July 2013.

CM issues with MS13-052 KB2840628

Update from Microsoft on this issue: http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2013/07/17/issues-reported-with-ms13-052-kb2840628-and-configmgr.aspx Ah, the importance of testing patches! I...

Created on 13 July 2013.