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…
Tag: SCCM
#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…
#SCCM 2012SP1 – Component Server not uninstalling
tl;dr: restart SMS_SITE_COMPONENT_MANAGER service through Configuration Manager Service Manager After uninstalling a SUP from a Site Server, the Component Server Role was not disappearing from the roles-listing of the old site system. After searching a while I found this blogpost for the 2007 SCCM environment. It also works in an 2012SP1 environment: 1. In…
#SCCM 2012 Client push installation not possible for 24 hours
If you have trouble pushing out the SCCM Client to a workstation, you should first check the CCM.log on your SCCM Server. The best tool to do this is cmtrace.exe which is found in the “tools” folder of your SCCM server. If you detect an error like “ERROR: Site xxx is trying to install…
Error at check in of runbook with “query configmgr” activity / SCORCH2012 SP1
After registering the Integration Pack of System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 I tried to use the activity “query configmgr” to get the results of a predefined SCCM-query into my runbook. When trying to check in the runbook i received an error: "An error occured saving the activity to the data storage. Please check the…