About Abhishek Joshi

Abhishek Joshi having 6 years exp. in IT Industry. Abhishek is interested in learning Windows, System center, System management, Linux, AI

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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 released

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 is the newest version of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, a Solution Accelerator for operating system and application deployment. MDT 2012 supports deployment of Windows 7, Office 2010 and 365, and Windows Server 2008 R2 in addition to deployment of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP   [...]

Download SCCM 2012 RTM

Download System Center 2012 Client Management and Security Solutions   Download System Center 2012 Configuration Manager helps IT empower people to use the devices and applications they need to be productive while maintaining corporate compliance and control. It provides a unified management infrastructure across physical, virtual, and mobile client environments. System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection [...]

Setup is unable to connect to SQL server with the connection information provided

While Installing SCCM 2012, i have encountered with below error. Enabling Named Pipes resolves the issue. From ConfigMgrSetupWizard.log 4/18/2012 1:44:45 AM: ConfigMgrSetupWizard Error: 1 : Exception message: [A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is [...]

Extending Active directory schema for SCCM 2012

The Active Directory schema extensions for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager are unchanged from those used by Configuration Manager 2007. If you extended the schema for Configuration Manager 2007, you do not need to extend the schema again for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. Extending active directory is schema is optional however we need to [...]

Installing Active Directory on windows server 2008 R2 Enterprise

Now a days, Installation is no more harder though you are installing active directory. Only thing while installing you should know the concept of  DNS, Forest, Domain, which forest functional level to choose, NetBIOS, NTDS and SysVOL. I have installed Domain controller in my Lab (virtual system), thought to share installation screens with you which [...]

Hardware to setup Lab environment on Hyper V

Yesterday brought assembled pc to setup Lab @home for testing, below are the configurations for the box Intel® Desktop Board DH67BL Intel® Core™ i7-2600 Processor (8M Cache, up to 3.80 GHz) Transcend 4 GB 1333mz * 4 => 16GB RAM Seagate 1 TB HDD Logitech Wireless keyboard and mouse LG 20” Monitor D link wireless [...]

System center Configuration Manager 2012 exam 70-243 Available in Prometric center from 16th April 2012

  Exam details can be found in http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?id=70-243   Incoming search terms:70-243 (2)exam 70-243 (1)ipd systems centre confguration manager 2012 (1)microsoft 70-243 (1)prometric 70-243 (1)sccm 2012 secondary site named pipes (1)sccm2012 exam 70-243 (1)

Hotfix :OSD tasks stop responding in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2

  New hotfix is released for SCCM 2007 sp2.The hotfix can be installed on Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 when provided symptoms gets matched. This hotfix does not replace the previously released hotfix. To avoid restart you must close the SCCM console. For all technical details go though KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2678547 Incoming search [...]

Queries to pull SCCM Package status information on Distribution point

Queries to pull SCCM Package status information on Distribution point 1) Below query will provide the install status (failed,pending,complete) of package and respective count select COUNT(*),InstallStatus from v_PackageStatusDistPointsSumm where PackageID like ‘<PackageID>‘ group by InstallStatus 2) Below query will provide the list of DP’s where package status is completed   select * from v_PackageStatusDistPointsSumm where [...]

List all SCCM views

Have you any time thought of where SCCM views gets stored? Did you faced problem while finding the required SCCM view other than views which are listed in Microsoft document? dbo.v_SchemaViews is the view where you will find all the views which are in SCCM database To pull the list of all views run below [...]

My Wiki on TechNet :SCCM backup procedure

Posted wiki article on SCCM backup procedure, which helps to understand steps involved in SCCM backup (Site server and SQL database on the same server), how many status message gets generated? How many components get backed up? to read more please go through below article http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/8524.sccm-backup-procedure.aspx Incoming search terms:sccm 2007 query archive (1)sccm wiki (1)system [...]

Configuration Manger 2012 RC2 is now available for download

Configuration Manger 2012 RC2 is now available for download on microsoft.com: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/system-center/configuration-manager-2012.aspx Configuration Manager 2012 Central Administration Site database server Supported versions of SQL Server 2008 for RC2: · SQL Server 2008 SP2 Standard and Enterprise CU7 · SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 and CU4 · SQL Server Express 2008 R2 and CU4 RC2 Release [...]

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 35,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 13 sold-out performances for that many [...]

Download Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Beta 2

 Download   System requirements Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 Minimum System Requirements: Site servers and site roles require 64-bit OS (distribution points are an exception) Branch distribution points have been deprecated and replaced with standard distribution points that can be hosted on Configuration Manager 2012 client operating system platforms, with the exception of Windows [...]