Microsoft have released details on the different editions that will be available for Windows Server 2012. It looks like Enterprise Edition has been dropped: More info here – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/2012-editions.aspx    

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This morning I was reading that in SCCM 2012 if you have a Windows 7 and above client, the SCCM machine & user policy is refreshed when you lock and unlock a desktop (Windows key + L)…. I wasn’t aware of this.  So I thought I’d try it out… It appears that the material I [...]

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Most of a note to myself than anything else, but the Orchestrator 2012 web service URL wasn’t obvious to me, so here it is for future reference. By default in SCORC 2012 it is: http://SERVERNAME:81/Orchestrator2012/Orchestrator.svc/    

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I recently had a requirement to pre-populate the Windows 7 Driver Store with some printer drivers so that non-admin users could add printers without the need to install drivers for this particular model. I utilized the PnPUtil command to do this during the SCCM Build and Capture Task Sequence which will copy and register the driver in the c:\Windows\System32\DriverStore [...]

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A great new page over at TechNet keeping track of the KB articles and assosiated hotfixes for SCCM 2012. More info: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/9539.list-of-public-microsoft-support-knowledge-base-kb-articles-for-system-center-2012-configuration-manager-configmgr-2012.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrdogs/archive/2012/05/18/list-of-configmgr-2012-kb-articles-and-hotfixes.aspx RSS feed (fantastic idea) here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/9539.list-of-public-microsoft-support-knowledge-base-kb-articles-for-system-center-2012-configuration-manager-configmgr-2012/rss.aspx

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