Welcome to a brand new podcast, Inside Central. The main purpose of this podcast is to dig into the forum threads on System Center Central and provide a detailed and technical explaination of some of the key issues for the week.

This week, Pete Zerger dicusses AD integration and Agent/Device failover, Security Auditing and troubleshooting agent installation issues in OpsMgr. We also discuss Simulating role-based security and web-based and custom UI for OSD in ConfigMgr.

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In this episode I am joined by veteran Microsoft ConfigMgr guru Wally Mead. We discuss some of the enhancements and new features of System Center Configuration Manager 2012. New application management and deployment techniques, the migration path, OSD and DCM are but some of the topics covered.

In this episode, I am joined by 3 contributing authors from the System Center Opalis Integration Server 6.3 unleashed book, Kerrie Meyler, Marcus Oh and Pete Zerger. We discuss the authoring process and what you can expect to find in the book.