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ConfigMgr vNext Role Based Administration

Posted by karthickvaranasi on Thursday, August 5, 2010,

New Console Objects…

Administrative Users = Users and Groups that have admin rights in ConfigMgr

Security Roles = Role based permissions in ConfigMgr

Security Scopes = Securable Objects in ConfigMgr

Now lets take a quick glance on how it actually looks like:

We are going to setup a Packaging role and see the console difference after.

1) Full console access for an Administrator

2) Select Security & Permissions –> Right Click add user or group

3) Select Packaging Group or user fro...

WMI Troubleshooting Tips

Posted by karthickvaranasi on Monday, June 28, 2010,

The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) subsystem has evolved over time to become a key dependency for many applications, Configuration Manager being one of them. We've been intertwined since the .698 build of WMI shipped with Systems Management Server 2.0 (there was even a WBEM Inventory component in SMS 1.2).

Given this history and relationship it's important to know what to do when something goes wrong.

I've spent many years investigating / troubleshooting WMI related issues ...