Category Archives: System Center 2012 R2

T-SQL Tuesday giving back to the community

Posted on December 9, 2014 by ConfigMgrMVP

  Read an interesting post here: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/discussionofsqlserver/2014/12/02/t-sql-tuesday-61-giving-back/ and thought, why not? 🙂   Allow me to reflect a little; in 2014, I’ve had the opportunity to present SQL Server related content at: TechEd 2014 (Houston) IT/Dev Connections 2014 (Las Vegas) … Continue reading →

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ConfigMgr 2012 RTM to R2 Upgrade checklist

Posted on July 9, 2014 by ConfigMgrMVP

There are a number of good articles on how to upgrade from ConfigMgr 2012 RTM to Sp1, and from Sp1 to R2. If anyone needs to upgrade from RTM to R2, here are the steps: Note: that the upgrade was … Continue reading →

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ConfigMgr 2012 Index Optimization

Posted on May 27, 2014 by ConfigMgrMVP

A recent blog post on index defragmentation and comments deserve some space here. The blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/smartinez/archive/2014/03/28/talking-database-in-configmgr.aspx The blog does a really good job exposing how the Index optimizer decides to rebuild indexes. That is a good thing! Lets walk through … Continue reading →

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Technical Documentation Download for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager

Posted on March 14, 2014 by ConfigMgrMVP

  Hot off the documentation press! http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29901 The downloadable files listed on this page contain the product documentation for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. The documentation also applies to Configuration Manager with no service pack and to Configuration Manager … Continue reading →

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Using ConfigMgr to deploy Win 8.1 update

Posted on February 25, 2014 by ConfigMgrMVP

  New whitepaper from Microsoft: Using Configuration Manager to Deploy Windows 8.1 Across Microsoft http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn582032.aspx

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ConfigMgr 2012 Site Backup and Recovery Overview

Posted on February 24, 2014 by ConfigMgrMVP

  This overview is primarily intended to cover backup and recovery for single site hierarchies. Due to their complexity, recovery of a site within a multi-site hierarchy, which will include a CAS (Central Administration Site), is beyond the scope of … Continue reading →

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SQL 2012 and System Center 2012 R2 Guide released

Posted on February 14, 2014 by ConfigMgrMVP

  Had a chance to review this guide and give it very high marks for setting up SQL for the various System Center products. The fact he calls out formatting SQL drive partitions at 64KB is huge and often missed … Continue reading →

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