Transcript UD-B401 And the players are … Wally Mead & Brett Flegg Panu Saukko & Garth Jones Ronni Pedersen & Kenny Buntinx Saud AlMishari & Steve Rachui.

UD-B401
And the players
are …
Wally Mead
&
Brett Flegg
Panu Saukko
&
Garth Jones
Ronni
Pedersen
&
Kenny Buntinx
Saud AlMishari
&
Steve Rachui
Rules of the game
1.
2.
3.
Your completely
impartial show
hosts for tonight
Nope,
they’re ALL
bad!
Kim
Oppalfens
Kent
Agerlund
Kim
Oppalfens
Kent
Agerlund
Wally’s favorite
ConfigMgr tools
ConfigMgr
Infrastructure
ConfigMgr and
that cloud thingy
ConfigMgr Content
management
Wally’s favorite
ConfigMgr tools
Wally’s favorite
ConfigMgr tools
ConfigMgr
Infrastructure
ConfigMgr and
that cloud thingy
ConfigMgr Content
management
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Quiz Show
Break 1
This tool is incredible for reading
ConfigMgr logfiles, and even allows the
somewhat more senior ConfigMgr
admin to increase the font size.
What is notepad.exe?
This tool is awesome for reading
ConfigMgr logfiles and has been a part
of all ConfigMgr 2007 R3 boot images
and later.
What is notepad.exe?
This tool allows you to open
multiple logfiles in one view
to really understand what is
going on.
What is CMTrace.exe?
This tool that was available in
the summer of 2012 and is
great for reading those long
Configuration Manager logs.
What is notepad.exe?
This is by far the best
logreader available in
Configuration manager 2012
rtm 64bit boot images.
What is CMTrace.exe?
Easy
Daily
Double!
We are non-fault tolerant site system
roles in a primary site. (Name 4)
What is Endpoint Protection, Primary site,
Asset Intelligence, Windows Intune, Enrollment
(Proxy) Point, fallback Status Point and Out of
Band Management Point?
This is when a ConfigMgr 2012
SP1 client will failover to another
SUP.
What is after failing 4 times in 30 minute
intervals?
Error Screen
Daily
Double!
This is how the fast channel for
systems notification communication
channel between a client and the
management point aka notification
is built in Configuration Manager
SP1. (Specify Default TCP Port and
direction)
The client opens the connection to tcp
port 10123 and keeps the channel
open.
This is how you can make multiple
automated backups of the Configuration
Manager infrastructure using the built-in
“backup site server” site maintenance
task.
What is defining a scheduled task to start the
sms site backup service?
I’m the primary stored procedure
you use when creating the
Management Point replica
database.
What is the
spCreateMPreplicaPublication
procedure?
This cloud service allows you to
integrate with Configuration Manager
2012 SP1 and specify a dedicated user
account to setup this integration.
What is office 365?
You can only have one instance of this
Cloud Service configured in
Configuration Manager 2012 sp1.
What is Windows Inture?
Without this tool, managing users
between your ConfigMgr and Intune
environment can be labor intensive?
.
What is the Directory
Synchronization or DirSync
tool?
This service allows you to
synchronize your on-premise
user password with their
online identity password.
What is Active Directory Federation
services?
You can perform this procedure when
your alert threshold for this cloud based
service have been exceeded to
immediately prevent clients from
downloading additional content from
the service and avoid additional costs
from occurring?
What is stopping the cloud service on
demand?
Enabling this feature will ignore all
bandwidth and schedule rules when
distributing content.
What is the Pull DP feature?
This is where individual files in the content
library are stored on the filesystem.
What is the FileLib folder?
This ExtractContent.exe switch will only
display metadata information about the
.pkgx package.
What is /l?
A tool to solve difficulties on distribution
points whose disks are nearly full that
can help you move the content library.
What is the content library transfer tool?
This is why you’re probably better of
configuring IIS yourself when installing a
distribution point as opposed to letting
the “configure IIS” feature doing it for
you.
Because the Configure IIS feature
installs components you don’t
actually need. (The distribution
point does not require HTTP
Redirection and IIS Management
Scripts and Tools.)
And now a public
service
announcement…
System Center:
They’re like family
It’s all about the
app model
Hidden gems
ConfigMgr 2012
Beyond GA/RTM
System Center:
They’re like family
It’s all about the
App model
Hidden gems
ConfigMgr 2012
Beyond GA/RTM
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Quiz Show
Final
Daily Double!
This is how the “Enable System Center
Operations Manager maintenance
mode” feature on deployments works in
detail.
We have/had no clue!
This solution accelerator takes an
application request submitted through
the Application Catalog and transforms
it into a System Center 2012 - Service
Manager service request, allowing
flexible approval lists and activities.
What is the Application approval
workflow solution accelerator?
These are activities available in the SC 2012
Configuration Manager Integration pack
(Name 4)
What are: Add collection rule, create
collection, delete collection, delete collection
rule, Deploy Application, Deploy Program,
Deploy Software update, Deploy task
sequence, get collection members, get
deployment status, perform client action,
Update collection membership
When you do this, the Technet
documentation specifies that “The VMM
administrator can view the configuration
settings from the VMM console, but
cannot make changes.”
What is Integrating Fabric
Updates with Configuration
Manager or using a
Configuration Manager
controlled WSUS server for
Fabric updates?
These 2 views are used to import the
Configuration Manager collected
serialnumber from Configuration Manager
into the Service Manager database.
What are
SCCM.Ext.vex_GS_SYSTEM_E
NCLOSURE.SerialNumber0
and
SCCM.Ext.vex_GS_SYSTEM_E
NCLOSURE.SerialNumber0?
The default installation path of
the System Center
Configuration Manager 2012
client on a 64-bit operating
system?
What is %windir%\ccm\ or
c:\windows\ccm?
This client installation
property allows you to disable
the new client auto
remediation feature, yet you
still get notified for ill-working
clients.
What is
notifyonly=true?
What are the business hours that
can be set from software center by
our beloved end user?
This command line will install
the System Center
Configuration Manager 2012
client on a Windows
Embedded device without
testing for the .Net framework
dependency.
Ccmsetup
/skipprereq:dotnetfx40_client_x86_x64.exe?
What are the wmi namespaces tested
during client health evaluation?
For a 1000$ bonus what namespace
did we leave out?
Doing this will prevent XML files from
being deleted locally after running an
inventory action.
What is adding the archive_reports.sms file to
the ccm\Inventory\Temp folder?
Flipping this registry key, will
re-import all the standard
reports and logos
What is the
SRSInitializeState key in
registry?
Daily
Double!
This tool will push the client to the
machines listed in the specified machine
source list and is available out of the box
in the adminiconsole bin folder.
What is the
Clientpushgenerator.Exe?
This can be used to start and stop
individual components or configure the
logging of individual site server or site
system components.
What is component manager, or registry.exe?
This allows you to modify
Icons listed in the ribbon
What is the adminUI.consolebuilder.exe to
manipulate AssettManagementNode.XML?
This is a nice change in the migration feature
that was introduced with SP1
What is migrating from CM12 SP1 to
CM12 SP1?
Daily
Double!
This property can be used to apply a hotfix
or CU during the installation of the
ConfigMgr client?
What is the PATCH=
property?
This new Hierarchy feature reverses the
logic on having a CAS or not “just in case”
What is expanding your
hierarchy with a primary
site.
This is a hierarchy setting that can be
put to good use after you installed SP1.
What is the automatic client upgrade
feature?
This WSUS hotfix needs to be installed
on any WSUS Server and Admin console
to make sure WSUS remains fully
operational after an ConfigMgr 2012
SP1 upgrade.
What is KB2734608?
Topsecret final jeopardy
How many CMDLETS start with the
VERB Set in SP1 CU1?