An overview of my posts about ConfigMgr 2012 SP1

Let’s start my first post, of this new year, with an overview of my latest post about ConfigMgr 2012 Service Pack (SP) 1. Normally I’m not really the kind of person that looks back, but in this case it’s with a reason, as most of my posts where with pre-release versions of SP1. I also tried to sort all my posts per subject, even though sometimes there is some overlap. The following posts are all tested, this week, with the RTM version of SP1 and I can confirm that they are still working: System Center Orchestrator Tweeting the deployment status of a system via Orchestrator and ConfigMgr 2012 Using a Status Filter Rule to delete a collection membership via Orchestrator and ConfigMgr 2012 New and …

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How to change the language in Windows PE via ConfigMgr 2012

A few weeks ago I already did some post about new task sequence variables. This week my post will be about another new (task sequence) variable. This one will probably not be used often, but can be very useful in some specific situations. Think about situations where the company demands that the language of everything that a user can see is displayed in the users’ own language. In this post I will use the German language as an example. Prerequisites The only prerequisite for the configuration is that the task sequence resource file (tsres.dll) exists in, in this case, the German language folder (<ConfigMgrInstallFolder>\OSD\bin\x64\00000407\tsres.dll) before updating the boot image. In case the file doesn’t exist, it can be simply installed/ created by following the next …

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