Adam Meltzer's Configuration Manager Blog

Out of the box, the client messaging SDK contains several basic hardware inventory classes for sending inventory data such as CCM_System, Win32_NetworkAdapter, and some others. It has the ability to create inventory data on the fly from pre-formatted...

Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 added a new feature called “client notification services”. Normally clients send a request to the MP on an interval, but if you’re in a situation where you need clients to perform certain actions right...

Despite its name, the client messaging SDK also has some strictly server side functionality. In its original release with the ConfigMgr 2012 SDK, it could write state messages and status messages directly to the inboxes on the site server. In the SP1...

Update: I was incorrect in my original statements around dependency and supersedence having equivalent code. I’ll post a future example covering supersedence. This post expands on the original sample program to demonstrate how you would add a...

Update @ 2013-03-21: We are aware of an issue with CPApplet interfaces not being accessible from 32-bit processes. Once I have something to share regarding a solution for this I will post about it here. Configuration Manager 2012 for the first time...

A few months back I posted an in-depth sample performing various functions with the client messaging SDK . I’ve updated the sample to provide the ability to perform ISV proxy registration as well to make it easy to validate basic ISV proxy scenarios...

In a previous post , I demonstrated how to create an application with an enhanced detection rule (EHD). Creating an application with a requirements rule is a bit more complicated. In this post I will provide a sample on how to do this using one of the...

Update: I've updated this sample with ISV proxy registration capabilities . At the Microsoft 2012 Partner Day in Las Vegas there was a session previewing changes to the Configuration Manager 2012 SDK. There was a demo given with a sample program that...

The final version of the Configuration Manager 2012 SDK has been released. You can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29559 . Documentation can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh948960...

One of my colleagues, Minfang Lu has posted an introduction on how to create a custom client using the client messaging SDK. Her post expands on the sample.cs included with the SDK providing lots of useful information on how you can implement your own...

Update #1: I have attached the sample as a .cs file to make it easier to consume In my previous post I provided a simple sample on how to create an application with a very basic detection method. If you want to perform more advanced detection, you...

Update #1: For information on enhanced detection methods, see this post . Update #2: To avoid an exception being thrown in the administrator console, add the following code after line 12: application.DisplayInfo.DefaultLanguage = displayInfo.Language;...

The latest preview release of the Configuration Manager 2012 SDK has been posted to TechNet. Link: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=29559 One of the exiting new features in this SDK is the Client Messaging SDK...

It's been a long road getting there, but there is now documentation on TechNet for how to configure ISA for use with Internet Based Client Management in Configuration Manager. Link here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc707697(TechNet.10...

IMPORTANT: This post is being kept for archival purposes, but please reference http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc707697(TechNet.10).aspx for official documentation on how to get this configured. After my original post on configuring ISA bridging...

Often times, basic communication issues can happen between the client and MP and they can be hard to decipher from logging alone. The error class I'll concentrate on here are the "WINHTTP_STATUS_CALLBACK" errors that may appear in the ccmexec.log on the...

Update: I've attached a sample .INF file to this posting. It's a pretty commonly asked question. People want to use different subject names on the Internet and intranet for their MPs. This isn't hard to do, and it requires something called a Subject...

I was going to save this for last, but there's been a lot of questions lately about this that I've been fielding, including a hot interest at TechReady 6 about ISA bridging. This is not a meant to be a step-by-step guide, and will require a bit of familiarity with ISA, but the information provided here should be adequate to help you get ISA bridging working with ConfigMgr. ...

I proctored two labs yesterday around migrating sites from mixed mode to native mode. I talked to a lot of people and tried to answer a lot of questions. There were a few common threads, which I will elaborate here because I found them interesting. ...

I'll be proctoring the "Configuring Configuration Manager 2007 Security including PKI" labs this coming Wednesday. I'll be at both the 1:15PM and 3:00PM sessions. I'll do a write-up here afterward going over some of the common problems that were brought...

Let's jump right in to one of the most complicated, and frankly, confusing aspects about Internet Based Client Management (IBCM), and that's how to use it with firewalls. I'm going to focus on its use with ISA server, because that's what I have the most...

Hello, readers. My name is Adam Meltzer and I'm a Software Development Engineer in Test for the System Center Configuration Manager product. The purpose of this site is to cover some advanced configuration aspects of the product, notably those around...