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Welcome to Part 2 of my System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM) series – desigined to show you how to get a basic setup up and running in a day not a week!

So, Im guessing you’ve gone through Part 1 – and are now ready to get on with the actual install.

You will be needing those two AD accounts - SCCMAdmin and SCCMClient – so make sure you have them ready.

Starting the Install

STOP – SCCM needs to extend the AD Schema. If you have ...

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This post is going to seem very odd - as it is Part 4 of a series, where Ive only published Part 1 so far! Bear with me, there is a reason...

A lot of my blogs recently have covered areas I get asked about a lot - and this one came up today!

Take the scenario, you are sending out your OS Builds to Machines, and also you are letting staff choose from your catalog of software to install themselves.

Problem - your OS install also shows in the list, so technically ...

Ive had a lot of contact from people asking about installing System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM) – having all sorts of issues with it. Normally – this install and config to the basics of doing a build and capture, through to the end game of it deploying your network clients for you!

Im not going to cover AD or DHCP – other than saying have 2 accounts setup ready to use, something like SCCMAdmin and SCCMClient. Make sure that you arent running SCCM on the same server as DHCP; ...

Ok – so, most of you know I love System Centre products – and after getting SCCM (System Centre Configuration Manger) setup nicely (I will blog on this, as lots of people seem to have a problem getting this up and running in less than a day) – it was time to play with its partner in crime SCOM (System Centre Operations Manager).

Introduction
What exactly is Operations Manager? Well, it revolves around an agent on the computer to be monitored. The agent watches that computer, ...