Hi folks. Got the following error when trying to run Sysprep in a Windows 10 installation. Sysprep was not able to validate Your Windows installation. Review the log file at %WINDIR%\System32\Sysprep\Panther\setupact.log for details. After resolving the issue, use Sysprep to validate your installation again. Investigating the log file mentioned shows the following. SYSPRP Failed to […]
Remember KB931125? The patch that broke tons of Configuration Manager management points? Yeah, that one. I just found out that as of October 17th Microsoft has released a “quick fix” for this problem so that you don´t have to manually delete the certificates yourself. Basically the fix will delete all the third party root certificate […]
Issue: You want to install Applications in your thick image, but they fail. Symptoms: During Build n Capture Applications fails to install (but packages installs without a problem) Status messages: The task sequence failed to install application (Install Application) in the group () with exit code 16389. AppEnforce.log is missing on the client Solutions: […]
So I was going to install a new SCCM 2012 Primary Site at a customer. I was using Windows Server 2012, SQL 2012 SP1 and SCCM 2012 SP1. the SCCM 2007 client was installed on my newly created Win2012 server due to Client Push which was enabled in the 2007 Site. I uninstalled the client […]
Ever wondered how rate limits on Distribution Points in ConfigMgr 2012 work? When I one day accidentally updated all the distribution points at a customer site it was time to learn quickly. There are three modes for rate limits and these are set per Distribution Point. Unlimited sending is self-explainatory, but the pulse mode and […]
Came across a weird issue at one of my customers recently where RDP connections would randomly (or so it seemed) drop when users were working on remote machines. They are using Configuration Manager 2012 and have client settings setup so that Remote Control is enabled on all clients. After seeing this post by Wes Kroesbergen and this […]
I’ve been working with a customer to create a custom hardware inventory class for a specific registry key recently. As many others I used Mark Cochrane’s RegkeytoMof tool. This works brilliantly, in most cases. In my case I found a bug that made ConfigMgr error out when updating the configuration.mof file. The error was (found […]
I recently had an issue completely removing Adobe Flash from computers in my environment. I got the infamous “InstallAX.exe is not marked for installation” error when running the uninstall, and this blog post by pointed me in the direction that I needed to delete registry keys from HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTInstallerFeatures. Problem was that these keys were not […]
Remember those pesky error codes you had to google the hell out of when trying to troubleshoot Software Updates on clients in ConfigMgr 2007? If your answer is flashing white rage or similar, then you will like this new simple reporting feature in ConfigMgr 2012. The most common error I witnessed when working with Software […]
A customer had installed SCCM 2012 and uses it for EndPoint Protection only for now. Half of the clients did not get the updateded definitions. I had a look on the deployment, and it gave this error: 0X87D00692 Group policy conflict. Did a check on group polices that applied to the workstations, and one of […]