The ConfigMgr documentation team has delivered a new update regarding the content in the ConfigMgr Technet Libary.

One of the updates I had requested was about the deployment of the client after applying a Service Pack. When Service Pack 2 was released a common question we saw in the community was; Do we need to upgrade the clients manually?

The answer was yes but it was not clearly documented. I'm glad this is now updated on the Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Upgrade Checklist.

A complete overview of all the changes in this update can be found here.

Many thanks to the product documentation team!

Half December 2009 the ICP1 was already released for ConfigMgr Service Pack 2. Now also the ICP2 is released.

ICP stands for International Client Pack and it contains multiple language files. ICP2 contains all the languages of ICP1 and:

Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian
Swedish
Turkish

You can download this pack here.

Well this will be my last post of this year. Nothing technical in this post just a overview of the year 2009.

It was a very exciting year which started with a new job at Inovativ in February. Inovativ enables me to specialize myself more and more on the System Center platform.

My first project this year was running the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for OpsMgr R2. I went to Microsoft Redmond for a 3 day training which was a great experience!

Besides my projects I have been working with Kerrie Meyler as a contributing author for the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Unleashed book. I have been writing articles before, but writing chapters for a book was a new, fun and cool experience. The result is a great book which has been published in July.

In April I went to the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas. This is the main event for IT Management solutions from Microsoft. It was a great time in Vegas and met lots of interesting people.

No events in May. Early May I gave a single day master class about the basics of ConfigMgr. With Inovativ we have those master classes a couple of times a year.

In July I received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award which was the crown on all my contributions to the community. A huge and excited milestone for myself! Thanks again to everyone who made this happen!
That month we also had our SCUG meeting where I gave a session about deploying Windows 7 with System Center Configuration Manager SP2.

In the month September and October we had some great announcements. September started with the announcement of ConfigMgr R3. A new release with new features and improvements. That month Inovativ had his own event in the Netherlands; Meer dan Beheer. I gave a presentation about System Center Configuration Manager. The event was a great success!

Service Pack 2 of ConfigMgr became RTM in October! In October I also attended the Microsoft Technet Live event as ‘Ask the Expert’ in the Netherlands. Steve Ballmer did the keynote, pretty cool! I always like those events in the Netherlands where you meet colleagues and customers. Steve also did an interview at the Erasmus University. Although some is in Dutch you can watch the interview here.

November I went to the System Center Service Manager TAP event and the Microsoft TechEd EMEA event in Berlin. Microsoft TechEd is the congress for everyone working in IT. This year the main focus was; Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7 and Exchange 2010.
I was ‘Ask the Expert’ at the ConfigMgr booth. I met a lot of people and really loved answering all kind of questions regarding ConfigMgr!

This year was the first time the event was held in Berlin. Although a bit colder than Barcelona (where the event was held previous years), Berlin is a great city to stay, especially with Wally Mead, Samuel Erskine and fellow ConfigMgr MVPs; Torsten Meringer, Ronni Pedersen and Adrian Stoian.

Right after TechEd we had our second SCUG meeting in the Netherlands. We had two speakers from Microsoft Redmond; Wally Mead for ConfigMgr and Daniel Savage for OpsMgr. Thank you guys!

And now it is December and the last day of the year. While writing this post I’m amazed to see what you can achieve in a single year! Overall it has been a great year for me and if 2010 will be as good as 2009 I’m pretty satisfied.

I wish you all a great and happy new year!

The International Client Pack version 1 for ConfigMgr SP2 is released. It contains the language files for English, German, Japanese and Spanish.

This is always released 45 days after the RTM release of the Service Pack. ICP version 2 is expected 90 days after the RTM release.

You can download the pack here!

I want to thank all readers of my blog and those who contributed through feedback and comments, really great!
Also I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a great and prosperous 2010.

2010 will be a great year for ConfigMgr. We will see more of vNext, ConfigMgr R3 and we will have a great MMS next year as well. I'm looking forward to it!

Enjoy!