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Brian Mason (MVP) worked with Microsoft and posted the fix prior to the Microsoft post: ConfigMgr Product Team Explains KB2840628 Issues and Workarounds

For full mobile device management, Microsoft is pushing Windows Intune, so yes, you'll need to tie your ConfigMgr 2012 infrastructure to Windows Intune. Microsoft recently released a synch mechanism between on-premise Active Directory and Azure. Windows Intune takes full advantage of Azure, so the same accounts and endpoints you are managing will be available directly inside Windows Intune.

SP1 (when released) will provide support between ConfigMgr 2012 and Windows Intune. Plus, licensing for Windows Intune is changing: Manage ConfigMgr 2012 and Windows Intune through a single interface, similar license

Depends on your licensing model, but if it's available for download for you that would be the full product. There's a lot of companies that don't realize that all the System Center Suite 2012 products are part of their licensing deal. Here's the scoop on licensing: http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/01/17/new-system-center-2012-suite-versioning-and-licensing-model-simplifies-and-excites/

There's some glaring issues here. For one, you need to really consider bumping up the RAM in those computers. Secondly, have you considered using Forefront? You are using SCCM 2012, so you should already be licensed to use Forefront. Third, you're using an old version of Sophos. I'm sure if you call Sophos, they'll tell you to update. There are probably some AV exclusions that you'll need to configure for Sophos to work correctly with the SCCM 2012 client.

I believe $10 is the starting price, before discounts. You may want to see what kind of discounts you can get.

SCCM is a great Discovery tool, i.e., it inventories and captures everything. However, it's not great at Normalizing data and really takes some effort if you want to use it as an Asset Management tool. You see those additional versions of Adobe for a couple reasons. 1. Adobe leaves remnants of versions every time it installs a new version. So, it actually could appear that you have multiple versions of Adobe on a single PC. Adobe is not the only vendor that does, but definitely one of the worst. 2. The data has not been Normalized and SCCM cannot accurately tell you which is the most current version on a PC, or which one is actually being used. To Normalize the data and have SCCM automatically report accurate data you need a 3rd party app. Check out Normalize for CM from BDNA, when you get a chance. It does all the work for and actually turns SCCM into a real Asset Intelligence platform. BDNA has a 60-day trial: sccm.bdna.com

There's always the original System Center community, myITforum.com.