I was going to use Johan Arwidmark’s hydration script to get a lab going. Johan Arwidmark’s hydration script is explained in detail here: http://deploymentresearch.com/Research/Post/407/The-Hydration-Kit-for-System-Center-2012-R2-is-available-for-download To get the hydration going you will have to download many files as explained in the article from Johan (Visual C++, SQL Express etc). In order to streamline the downloads a […]
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: […]
During deployment the logs are saved different locations depending on the process that creates the log files. Take a look at the list below and hopefully it can spare you a couple of minutes. Scenario Location WinPE before formatting HDD X:WindowsTempSMSTSLog WinPE after HDD is formatted X:SMSTSLog C:_SMSTaskSequencelogssmstslog Windows OS during Task Sequence execution C:_SMSTaskSequenceLogsSMSTSLog […]
When using custom scripts for Detection Methods you have the possibility to use a Powershell script. However, if your environment has security in focus, then setting the ExecutionPolicy for Powershell scripts to anything other than AllSigned is not an option. This means you have to sign your scripts before running them. Christian has written an […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When using a self-signed certificate with SCUP, remember that the certificate needs to be deployed to Trusted Publishers AND Trusted Root Certificate Authorities on the client. The same applies for the SCUP/WSUS server. I seem to forget the latter when doing my deployments… Jason T. Lewis has made a blog post describing how to make […]