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How-To : Automate application mapping using SCCM 2012 Powershell

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During mass reainstallation/redeployment/migration of large number of PCs, always question about applications is raised.

How to deploy/deliver applications once all machines are resintalled?

If you have SCCM in the infrastructure, this might help a lot with automation. All you need is mapping between computer name and applications (to be more specific collection ids) and PowerShell console on SCCM server.

Then you just need to prepare input files for the script below and you can automate application deployment on mass scale.

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Cheat Sheet : SCCM Client Versions

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Handy information during pre-deployment checks/validations.

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Beta 2 5.00.7561.0000
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager RC1 5.00.7678.0000
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager RC2 5.00.7703.0000
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager RTM 5.00.7711.0000
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager CU1 5.00.7711.0200
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager CU2 5.00.7711.0301
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 Beta 5.00.7561.0000
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 5.00.7804.1000
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 CU1 5.00.7804.1202
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 CU2 5.00.7804.1300
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 CU3 5.00.7804.1400
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 CU4 5.00.7804.1500
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2 5.00.7958.1000
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2   Hotfix: KB 2905002 5.00.7958.1101
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager R2 CU1 5.00.7958.1203
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 4.00.5931.0000
System Center Configuration Manager2007 SP1 4.00.6221.1000
System Center Configuration Manager2007 SP1 (KB) 4.00.6221.1193
System Center Configuration Manager2007 R2 4.00.6221.1193
System Center Configuration Manager2007 SP2 4.00.6487.2000
System Center Configuration Manager2007 SP2 (KB) 4.00.6487.2111
System Center Configuration Manager2007 R3 4.00.6487.2157
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How-To : System Center 2012 SP1 Service Manager Installation

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Quick reference with screenshots and requirements for System Center 2012 SP1 Service Manager installation.

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How-To : Prep to SCCM 2007 R2 to SCCM 2012 SP1 Migration

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Quick steps which should be done as pre-migration steps when you want to migrate System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 to System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager.

Diagram below shows schematics of the lab environment prepared for migration testing.

SCCM Migration from 2007 to 2012

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First look : System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 installation screenshots

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Installation screenshots from System Center Virtual Machine manager 2012 installation. I did installation in my virtual LAB environment as part of excercise with System Center 2012.

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First look : System Center Operations Manager 2012 RC installation screenshots

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As we can download SCOM 2012 RC from Microsoft, I decided to do quick installation in LAB environment. Whole test environment is based on VMware Workstation 8. Deployment of SCOM 2012 will be spread across few servers to separate certain functions (in fact similar to real-life deployments). For SCOM2012 deplyoment I will use following servers:

  • lab-dc-01 – Domain Controller – Windows Server 2008 R2
  • lab-sql-01 – SQL Server – Windows Server 2008 R2 + SQL Server 2008 R2
  • lab-net-01 – SCOM 2012 Management Server – Windows Server 2008 R2 + SCOM 2012 Management Server
  • lab-wks-01 – SCOM 2012 Management Console – Windows 7 x64 Ultimate + SCOM 2012 Management Console

This will be mainly screenshot tour through installation phases of SCOM2012.

Here is schematics of the lab:

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