1. Delivering People-centric IT with
Configuration Manager 2012 R2
Ronny de Jong
Inovativ | Consultant
@ronnydejong
ronnydejong.com

2. Agenda
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Welkom
Session Objectives & Takeaways
People-centric IT
Demo’s
Q&A

3. Session Objectives and Takeaways
 Review infrastructure changes in Configuration Manager R2
 Discuss new and updated features in Configuration Manager
R2
 Highlight changes to support Windows Server 2012 R2 and
Windows 8.1

4. Today’s Challenges
Users
Devices
Apps
Data
Users expect to be able to
work in any location and
have access to all their
work resources.
The explosion of devices is
eroding the standards-based
approach to corporate IT.
Deploying and managing
applications across
platforms is difficult.
Users need to be productive
while maintaining
compliance and reducing
risk.

5. People-centric IT
Empower users
Allow users to work on the
devices of their choice and
provide consistent access to
corporate resources.
Unify your environment
Users
Devices
Apps
Data
Deliver a unified application and
device management onpremises and in the cloud.
Protect your data
Management. Access. Protection.
Help protect corporate
information and manage risk.

6. What’s New In Infrastructure?
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Increased SQL Server flexibility in Setup
Easy client mobility
Reduced Need For Multiple Sites
Improved visibility into a better optimized content system
Upgrade/interoperability considerations
64-bit native PowerShell module

7. SQL Server flexibility In Setup
 Specify file locations for database and transaction log

8. SQL Server flexibility In Setup
 Specify file locations for database and transaction log
 Restore to a different SQL Server instance
 Requires same SQL Server version

9. Easy client mobility
 Scenario: I installed a new primary site in my hierarchy and would
like to move some or all of the clients from an existing site to the
new site (e.g. load-balancing, server replacement).
 Solution: Client reassignment
 Supports single or multi-select client reassignment
 Enforces proper client/site versioning
 User standard client policy channel (no client notification)
Note: This will not work for disaster recovery scenarios.

10. Reduced Need For Multiple Sites
 Why might you need multiple primary sites?
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More than 100K clients
Organizational politics
Reporting from the CAS
Clients reside in multiple untrusted forests
 Solution: multiple network access accounts per site
 Supports backward compatibility for SP1 clients
 Troubleshooting assistance provided through dts.log

11. Demo
Easy client mobility

12. Improved visibility into a better
optimized content system
 In-console monitoring improvements
 Pull DP on par with standard DP
 Clearer and more detailed messages
 Cancel/retry distribution
 Pull DP improvements
 Source DP ordering and randomization
 Improved scalability (no more polling)
 Migration of branch DP’s to pull DP’s
 General content improvements
 Content download optimizations (client side) for superseded applications
 Content distribution optimizations (priority, send requests in SQL, versioning
auto-cancel

13. Demo
Content System Enhancements

14. Upgrade/Interoperability
Considerations
 Only supported upgrade path is from ConfigMgr 2012 SP1
 Must upgrade Windows ADK first
 Improved site to site interoperability

15. What’s New In OSD?
 Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1 support
 Virtual Hard Drive (VHD) management
 Native integration of some MDT actions

16. OSD for Windows Server 2012 R2 &
Windows 8.1
 Requires new version of Windows ADK
 Added multi-version boot images support
 Deploys just like Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012
 Support for OSD-specific site system roles
 State Migration Point on Windows Server 2012 R2
 Distribution Point with PXE on Windows Server 2012 R2
 Distribution Point without PXE on Windows 8.1

17. Virtual Hard Drive (VHD)
Management
 Expanding virtualization scenarios
 Example: workstation image validation, datacenter integration
 Create VHD
 Requires Hyper-V on ConfigMgr console computer
 User standard task sequence (new template available)
 Modify VHD
 Uses offline servicing
 Upload to Virtual Machine Manager

18. Demo
Create Virtual Hard Drive (VHD)

19. Native MDT Actions
 Check Readiness
 MDT Validate action
 Prevent late failure or bad targeting
 Set Dynamic Variables
 MDT Gather action
 Dynamic task sequence through conditional rules
 Run PowerShell Scripts
 Set PowerShell Execution Policy
 ConfigMgr Cmdlets x64

20. Demo
Native MDT Actions

21. What’s New In Software Updates?
 Maintenance windows specific to updates
 Automatic Deployment Rule (ADR) filter query preview
 Package flexibility for ADR’s

22. Demo
Software Updates

23. What’s New In Platform Support?
 Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1
 Full client and site system role support (also OMADM)
 On-Premise Self-Service Portal*
 Windows Embedded
 Support for Windows Embedded 8 Industry
 Support for Unified Write Filters (UWF)
 Mac OS
 Enrollment UI

24. Mac OS Enrollement: Current vs New
Experience
 SP1 Enrollement
 Command lin experience with username, password, server and
other parameters to specify
 Enrollement process biggest pain point for customers and largest
barrier to adaption
 R2 Enrollment
 Enrollment wizard
 User only has to enter username/email, password, server
 Command-line enrollment remains for scripting scenarios

25. Role Based Administration
 With SCCM 2012 R2, all reports updated to use RBA
configuration
 Control access to specific reports
 Enabled by default in R2 via registry/WMI setting
 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSMSSRSRP
“EnableRbacReporting”

26. Bedankt! Vragen?
Volgende spreker: Hyper-BBQ 