System Center 2012 Configuration Manager KBs April

I assume most of you have seen and heard the finally System Center 2012 is out the door, below is a link with a good post with Configuration Manager 2012 KBs that was release duringApril thet you should be aware of before you start didding deep with the product. Go read now !

New Knowledge Base articles for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager

http://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/archive/2012/04/24/new-knowledge-base-articles-for-system-center-2012-configuration-manager.aspx

Do I need a CAS ?

Well my answer is first off always NO. Thats a good starting point when dscussing when you should use a CAS or not. Simply the answer is NO NO NO ! There are a few exceptions but they are very few.

- Do you have more then 100 000 clients? Sure go for a CAS due to the supportability of 100 000 clients on a single primay !

- Political issues, if you loose go beat on the wall again untill you win.

- Building a Gloabl 24/7 organisation where you want to give your self time to work on the systems dusrint night etc might be one but not nessecary one depending on how you stand up your roles.

Almost all the old arguments for adding a primary are gone, two classical examples below.

- Delegation of duties haveing one group manageing the servers and another managing the clients, All that you now can manage with role based administration.

- Different Client Settings client in Sweden should have one setting and the German clients another, in SC12 CM now you can do Custom Client settings that you target to Collections so they are no longer site based.

As always when I do designs try to keep the hierachy as simple as possible, making it to advanced is also making it require more effort managing in most cases. Above is not all cases we will bump into but want I really want to get out here is dont just put up a CAS because you think you need one, you should have very valid reasons for standig up a CAS as it will addd more complexity to your environment. SC12 CM is really about hierachy simplification, I know it will take some time to get this out there but make amental note dont stand up a CAS just because someone said so.

Best of MMS – Sweden

Thanks to everyone that attended mine and Jörgens  session last week. As promised we will post some MBAM (Microsoft Bitlocker and Administration) Blog posts the coming weeks.

To start with here are the links that we had in our presentation. We will post more thing related to MBAM along the way so please stay tuned here for more MBAM information.

General

MBAM MP for Operations Manager
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26796
Bitlocker FAQ
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee449438(WS.10).aspx
MBAM in WinPE
http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/nbrady/archive/2011/09/06/how-can-i-retrieve-my-bitlocker-recovery-key-from-mbam-in-windows-pe.aspx
KBs
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2612822

Handling of TPM

HP
http://itbloggen.se/cs/blogs/micke/archive/2010/10/18/enable-tpm-via-task-sequence-on-hp-boxes.aspx
Dell
Http://www.nullsession.com/2010/12/02/enable-tpm-in-task-sequence-with-sccm-and-cctk/
Lenovo
http://blog.coretech.dk/mip/enable-lenovo-tpm-security-chip-and-other-stuff-from-a-ts/

(Swedish) Informator Seminarie

Hej som utlovat kommer presentationen från dagens seminare på följande länk. Om ni har frågor eller andra tankar är ni välkomna att skicka e-post på adressen som står i presentationen.

Config Mgr 2012 – Overview