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 […]
Posts in category SCCM 2012
Fix for too many certificates in Trusted Root Certificate Authorities
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 […]
Failed to install Applications during Build and Capture
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: […]
Working with Rate Limits on ConfigMgr 2012 Distribution Points
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 […]
RDP disconnects in spite of Remote Control Client Settings in ConfigMgr 2012
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 […]
Error when applying custom MOF in ConfigMgr, escaping characters correctly
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 […]
Search and delete Registry keys with Powershell
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 […]
Explained Error Codes for Software Updates in ConfigMgr 2012
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 […]
SCCM 2012 Endpoint Protection Updates not beeing deployed
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 […]