SCCM, MDT and Intune are here!
One more site about System Center Configuratuion Manager, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Microsoft Intune
Now PowerShell cmdlets for System Center Configuration Manager will be released as separate module, which will be updated regularly, and will not be a part of cumulative updates.
The first version of the Cmdlet Library you can download here, and here you will find the documentation.
Requirements for the System Center Configuration Manager Cmdlet Library:
Microsoft released an official whitepaper about Software Updates Management in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. This whitepaper gives detailed explanation how Software Updates Management works (logs, modules, inbox files, etc.). This document will be interesting for experienced ConfigMgr administrators.
You can download this whitepaper here.
New book Microsoft System Center Software Update Management Field Experience was released by Microsoft Press:
This ebook addresses some of the gaps and pain points you might encounter when implementing, administering, and troubleshooting Software Updates using Configuration Manager 2012 R2.
You can download Microsoft System Center Software Update Management Field Experience book here.
A lot of videos from NIC 4th Edition 2015 conference were published:
In December I registered for a free beta exams 70-695: Deploying Windows Devices and Enterprise Apps and 70-696: Managing Enterprise Devices and Apps. January 30, I received the results of the exams: I do not pass 70-695 because of the minimal experience with PowerShell, WDS and App-V, and I passed 70-696 because all the questions were related to the Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune. 🙂
Dear Microsoft Candidate:
Congratulations on passing the new Microsoft 696 – Managing Enterprise Devices and Apps exam!
By passing this rigorous exam you have joined the group of Microsoft professionals throughout the world who have demonstrated their knowledge and skills in the Managing Enterprise Devices and Apps exam.
Half way to the MCSE: Enterprise Devices and Apps is passed. If I have a lot of free time, I will prepare for 70-695. 🙂
Now exams are no longer in beta and fill free to register.
After installing WSUS and SUP the first synchronization does not pass.
wsyncmgr.log:
Sync failed: WSUS update source not found on site BFT. Please refer to WCM.log for configuration error details.. Source: getSiteUpdateSource
STATMSG: ID=6703 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE=”SMS Server” COMP=”SMS_WSUS_SYNC_MANAGER” SYS=sccmtest1.firma.com SITE=BFT PID=2144 TID=4260 GMTDATE=Thu Feb 19 02:00:00.445 2015 ISTR0=”getSiteUpdateSource” ISTR1=”WSUS update source not found on site BFT. Please refer to WCM.log for configuration error details.” ISTR2=”” ISTR3=”” ISTR4=”” ISTR5=”” ISTR6=”” ISTR7=”” ISTR8=”” ISTR9=”” NUMATTRS=0
Sync failed. Will retry in 60 minutes
At the same time there are no errors in WCM.log , there is only information about the every minute endless attempts:
Attempting connection to WSUS server: sccmtest1.firma.com, port: 8530, useSSL: False
Successfully connected to server: sccmtest1.firma.com, port: 8530, useSSL: False
Category Product:a105a108-7c9b-4518-bbbe-73f0fe30012b (Windows Server 2012) not found on WSUS
Starting WSUS category sync from upstream…
WSUS sync was already in progress
WSUS sync running
WSUS sync running
WSUS sync running
Usually after installing WSUS console open is not necessary, because all WSUS settings are managed by SUP.
Solution is open the console, go to Windows Server Update Services Configuration Wizard, click Next four times, then Start Connecting and close the wizard:
The result is seen in WCM.log:
Successfully connected to server: sccmtest1.firma.com, port: 8530, useSSL: False
Successfully refreshed categories from WSUS server
Attempting connection to WSUS server: sccmtest1.firma.com, port: 8530, useSSL: False
Successfully connected to server: sccmtest1.firma.com, port: 8530, useSSL: False
Subscribed Update Categories <?xml version=”1.0″ ?>~~<Categories>~~ <Category Id=”Product:a105a108-7c9b-4518-bbbe-73f0fe30012b”><![CDATA[Windows Server 2012]]></Category>~~</Categories>
Attempting connection to WSUS server: sccmtest1.firma.com, port: 8530, useSSL: False
Successfully connected to server: sccmtest1.firma.com, port: 8530, useSSL: False
After this step the first synchronization works great, also wsyncmgr.log can help you find an additional information about results of the first successful synchronization.
Two books about Windows-devices management are here:
A few videos from System Center Universe 2015 are here:
Today Cumulative Update 4 for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager was released:
You can download CU4 here.
Azure AD Connect is an “updated” Azure AD Sync utility, which is used to synchronize user accounts from Active Directory to Microsoft Intune. Now all efforts will be directed at stabilizing Azure AD Connect, which is now in the Preview mode and available for testing in a lab environment. Dirsync and Azure Active Directory Sync will no longer be updated.
You can download Azure AD Connect Preview here. Details about the software are in the Active Directory Team Blog.
The biggest plus for me seems possible to install AD FS for Single Sign-On, or configure an existing farm during Azure AD Connect installation:
