Using Client Push Installation on UNTRUSTED FOREST systems with ConfigMgr 2012

Last week my post was about using the Client Push Installation on WORKGROUP systems and this week my post will be a sort of follow-up on that. This week my post will be about using the Client Push Installation on UNTRUSTED FOREST systems. The method of last week will also work on UNTRUSTED FOREST systems, but the nice thing about ConfigMgr 2012 is that there are now better options for UNTRUSTED FOREST systems! The systems and domain(s) of the UNTRUSTED FOREST can be discovered AND to make it even better, it is even possible to write information to the Active Directory! Prerequisites Before it is possible to use the Client Push Installation on UNTRUSTED FOREST systems, there are a few things to keep in mind. …

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Using Client Push Installation on WORKGROUP systems with ConfigMgr 2012

This week my post will be about using the Client Push Installation on WORKGROUP systems. We all know that a manual installation will work on WORKGROUP systems, but wouldn’t it be easier to just use the Client Push Installation? In my opinion the answer would be, YES! And as long as the WORKGROUP systems are configured the same, the configuration is actually quite easy. Prerequisites Before it is possible to use the Client Push Installation on WORKGROUP systems, there are a few things to keep in mind. The following points are a prerequisite and are not further explained in this post: The FQDN of the Management Point system can be resolved on the WORKGROUP system. The Network Discovery is enabled to find the WORKGROUP systems. …

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