I needed to do this as a part of a process requirement (don’t ask). Really couldn’t find a way of doing this but had an idea. Luckily the nice folks over on the Configuration Manager 2012 SDK forum promptly responded: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a2a97ca5-398f-4845-a059-0066b044f1a3/disable-software-updates-client-component?forum=configmanagersdk …

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Cireson recently announced the free release of their Remote Manage app for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. Within a few weeks of its release back in October there have been over 900 downloads. Wally Mead is also scheduled to …

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Download Presentation: http://1drv.ms/ZVReH9 Level: 200 Abstract: During our session we will demonstrate how to transform your Microsoft System Center into a Business Service Management solution and how to optimize your Private Cloud with our Cloud Capacity solution for Hyper-V and VMware. …

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Download Presentation: http://1drv.ms/ZVJ15N Level: 200 Abstract: This session will review how Disaster Recovery as a Service is provided using Microsoft’s management and cloud technologies. Description: During this session we will review how Microsoft System Center, and Azure Site Recovery combine to …

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Download Presentation: http://1drv.ms/13xyM9X Content Level: 200 Abstract: In this session we will demonstrate how users can easily deploy a centralized dashboard solution that exposes Microsoft System Center analytics and enables operational tasks via mobile devices with the newly released System Center WebTop …

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Download Presentation: http://1drv.ms/1w9KeTX Level: 300 Abstract: Veeam recently released the Veeam Management Pack v7 for System Center with new Hyper-V support, heatmaps, customizable dashboards, widgets and capacity planning tools. Join us for a quick tour of what’s new and see how …

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UPDATED 3/20/2015: Now includes SQL 2014 and also there is a post by Jason Sandys that seems to be a more intuitive way for you to report on SQL instances using SCCM: http://blog.configmgrftw.com/sql-server-inventory-using-configmgr/ This came up during our 2014 Q3 user group meeting. Matthew Hudson …

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It’s truly amazing what happens when the System Center community comes together and makes such a special event possible. It was a painstaking 4 weeks for Maarten Goet, Cameron Fuller and myself. I don’t know how we were able to …

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