Lately I was struggling with a DP that got its Packages invalid several times, see here After solving this, I had the problem that some clients failed to install. They brought up an error “Download failed 80071ee2”. After redistributing several packages I saw that always different files in the same package were “Not able to…
Author: Christian Lehrer
After upgrading from SCCM2012SP1 to SCCM2012R2 some random packages are invalid #SysCtr #ConfigMgr #SCCM
Update below! Hi, after finally upgrading from SCCM2012SP1 to SCCM2012R2 we had the issue, that the OSD tasksequences stopped working with errors all circling around content. After being able to solve some of the problems by redistributing the affected content I asked on twitter if anyone else was having a similar problem after upgrading to…
#Powershell – Compare a list of values against a list of values #PoSh
Hi everyone, recently I had to solve the following problem: I had to split up a list of costcenters and names in a csv-file based on the costcenter. In the first iteration the requirement was pretty easy: “If the costcenter is beginning with a 5 then the usernames shal be put into file “List1.txt”. There…
#Powershell Oneliner: Delete Personal / Machine Certificates
While searching for a solution to delete a personal machine certificate, I again found Powershell to provide the best solution. Let´s say you have a machine certificate Issued by CA “testca.domain.bla” and want to delete it. This is solved in a one liner in Powershell Version 3: get-childitem -path cert:localmachinemy | where {$_.Issuer -like…
#ConfigMgr #SysCtr Error loading Software Center #SCCM
After successfully installing the Configuration Manager Client on a Windows Server 2003 I encountered an error when opening the Software Center: After uninstalling and reinstalling the Configuration Manager Client the same error appeared. Binging (yes, bing.com brought the solution!) the error, I found something similar here. In this article is written, that .NET…
#Sysctr #SCCM create IP-ranges per AD-site the easy way
Yesterday there was a chat on Twitter about the usage of IP-Range vs. AD-Site based boundaries for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1. There is an easy way to get the best of both worlds. It relies on the proper configuration of IP-Subnets in the Active Directory Site Configuration (well, that should be configured properly…
#SCCM #SCEP Suspend SCCM2012 SP1 Endpoint Protection #SysCtr
If you ever come into a situation where you need to stop the running System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 SP1, you will find out that there is no way to stop the service. Neither in the GUI nor the service Microsoft Antimalware Service (MsMpEng.exe) itself. After searching a while I found the solution in this…
#ConfigMgr Speed up AD-Group discovered Client Push Installation #SCCM
Imagine the following situation: You have to deploy SCCM a well controlled and step by step. You want to use (automatic) push installation. This can be done by putting the PCs you want into AD-groups and throw some GPOs at them, to add an ConfigMgrPush Account to local admins for example. Then Active Directory Group…
#ConfigMgr Client install BITS Error on Windows 7 #SCCM
Today I struggled with one of 160 Windows 7 Clients I installed the SCCM-Client through push installation. On this one machine ccmsetup.log was showing “ BITS job creation failed with 80200014. Unable to check BITS version ccmsetup 07.08.2013 16:45:25 4420 (0x1144) “ After searching a while and trying to repair BITS, setting registry keys…
Refresh Active Directory Group Membership of PC without reboot
If you ever tested stuff that is based on AD-Groups for Computers – like GPO Software deployment – you have experienced that the PC “knows” its new group membership only after a reboot or after seven days of waiting…. After searching a while I found a way to get membership changes without reboot: Open…