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did you enable client push ?

try usmtutils.exe http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560752%28WS.10%29.aspx

are you sure you are using the right boot image ? have you tried pressing F8 and running the HTA using mshta.exe bla.hta ?

Microsoft yesterday announced the availability of Office 2013 Customer Preview, you can download it here clicking on Word 2013 brings you to the following page, and then you can click on Try It to see what downloads are available, there aer versions for Home, Small Business, Enterprise and Enterprise Preview. cheers niall

have you looked at this post yet ? using Configuration Manager 2012 RC in a LAB - Part 14. Performing a side-by-side Migration from Configuration Manager 2007 Part 14. Performing a side-by-side Migration from Configuration Manager 2007.

you really need to find the smsts.log file, have you checked in x:\windows\temp\smstslog ? what point does it fail at ?

the process of capturing an image run's sysprep which in essence reverts windows to a 'default' state, you should really only be capturing images on Virtual hardware, have you tried that ?

yes, choose the Dashboard report in the Endpoint Protection category, then select Antimalware Policy application status on computers, and drill further into that report by clicking on the graph itself

sure, but first you must understand that the Antimalware Policy and Client settings for Endpoint Protection are two separate things and they are 'picked up' by the client when it does its' normal machine policy as defined in the site's (or collection) Client policy which is one of many settings you can define for Client settings. By default this value is 60 minutes, in other words you have to wait one hour for the policy to get retrieved from it's management point, you can speed this up by manually going to the client and opening up the configuration manager client agent in control panel and clicking on the actions tab and running a machine policy retrieval, or you can target Custom Client Settings with a client policy set to update every 5 minutes to a collection where you want machines to update their policy quickly,whatever you do above once the client retrieves it's policy from the management point it will apply the necessary changes and in Endpoint Protection terms if it was a custom antimalware policy you can verify on the SCEP client itself by clicking on the downward pointing arrow in the help screen and see when the policy was last applied by clicking on About System Center Endpoint Protection to see what the Policy Name is and when it was applied if you want to verify changes to your Antimalware policy right now then change something in it's name (add some square brackets or a full stop) and then do a machine policy update on the client, as you can see the policy change has been noticed..

those SQL port policies are for the Configuration Manager servers that are hosting SQL server so that they can replicate to each other.

does it work ? of course it does, see for yourself... XP to 7 using hardlinking.wmv this video is to clarify a post on technet. The task sequence for hardlinking is in the link below Some Sample XP to Windows 7 task sequences showing Hardlinking hardlinking and SMP note: there is no audio in this video.

when you say they look right does it list the correct antimalware policy that you created or not ? if it is the correct policy then what settings have you made in that policy ?

id bump up the main hdd to 240gb or more if possible, with configuration manager 2012 you'll fill that up in no time at all. trust me and you'll want to have your CM12 labs on the SSD if possible as it's much faster than sata.

and it's also covered here on windows-noob.com

maybe you should include a link to your other guide and screenshots too :-)

yeah thats ok, check what SQL is storing on D:\ you'll see it's all the important bits (logs and database), in the screenshot below i'm showing you the contents of the DATA folder on D:\

hi yannara, do you mean you'd like a place to put a company logo in each window ?

hiya Ben are you still having issues ? if so ping me offline and i'm happy to do a remote session (or whatever)

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what do you mean? are you asking for design ideas ? if so please raise a separate post, this is about installing the CAS.

best practise would entail separating the different programs (OS, Configuration Manager, SQL Server 2008) to different physical disks and to use RAID 10, for example OS on C:\, Configmgr on D:\ SQL on E:\ and so on.. but as this is only a lab i've just installed Configuration Manager and SQL Server 2008 R2 on D:\. The reason you'd keep them on different physical discs is all about IOPS (input output per second). If you want more info on that see here and refer to the advice from Technet here, from which I've pasted some info below..

are you logged in as the SMSadmin user ?

yes, that is covered on Technet in this section:- Planning for High Availability with Configuration Manager and I quote from some of the info there..

press F8 at the start of the apply operating system step, does that work ? that way you can capture the log...

and that link (amongst others) is already included in Part 1 of my new series underneath Technet Recommended Reading, f.y.i cheers niall