In SC 2012 Configuration Manager, Site to Site communication will use SQL Service Broker feature to replicate data between site databases instead of file based replication in previous Configuration Manager versions. With SQL replication, the performance and reliability will be improved. However, it...

In this series, I will demonstrate some operations on SC 2012 Configuration Manager and show you what log entries you will see during the process. Hope by doing this, you can gain some troubleshoot experience for SC 2012 Configuration Manager. In this article, we will discuss the flowchart of adding...

One of our partner meet the following issue when they are testing their catalog: Though the cab file is signed properly, when importing the catalog, it shows “Unknown” on some OS. This issue only happen on one Windows Server 2008 SP2 machine. And the publisher can be identified correctly...

I’d like to start this series to share some trouble shoot cases study for System Center Update Publisher 2011. The first one is about the following scenarios: One of our partner has created a catalog. They used System Center Update Publisher 2011 to publish this catalog into ConfigrMgr 2007...

<update> Add the link to CSILD description: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb762494(v=vs.85).aspx System Center Update Publisher 2011 provider customers the ability to create customized updates which can be deployed with System Center Configuration Manager: http://www...

Some customers may use both Configuration Manager and FEP 2010 Group Policy Tool ( http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13088 ) to manage FEP Client settings, you may find the following issues: You create a FEP policy in Configuration Manager UI and apply it to one client. However...

A new version of this tool has been released and some of the issues mentioned here have been fixed. Refer here first: http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2011/11/01/how-to-use-definition-update-automation-tool-for-forefront-endpoint-protection-2010-update-rollup-1.aspx ***********...