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Troubleshooting SCCM Part VI ..........Software Distribution
Software Distribution The Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 software distribution feature provides a set of tools and resources that help you create and manage packages and...
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Audit Collector Filter GUI version (V1) of ADTADMIN.exe
Audit Collector in Operations Manager 2007 is one of the most frequently used. When I was supporting the SCOM and ACS, the challenge many of customers informed me was that applying filter query using...
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Administartive Checklist for Configuration Manager 2007
Many have been asking for what i need to check to make sure SCCM is healthy. According to me if I were you these are things I would have checked :)This might not be complete but had tried to include...
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GUI Tool to Manually Exchange Public Keys Between Sites
GUI Tool to Exchange Public Keys Between SitesI had feedback from few of the customers and colleagues of mine that the process of manually exchange of keys as per this link...
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How to install SCUP and configure
How to install SCUP and configure This will show the steps on how to install SCUP and also configure a third party catalogue, (EH Adobe Flash player) and deploy the clients reporting to SCCM server....
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DRS Initialization In Configuration Manager 2012
DRS Initialization In Configuration Manager 2012 When a site is first installed it establishes an initial synchronization with the sending site so that subsequent data changes are applied to an...
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SEDO (Serialized Editing of Distributed Objects) ConfigMgr 2012
SEDO(Serialized Editing of Distributed Objects)As global data is replicated everywhere, a user on a primary site could change an object at the same time as a user on the CAS or other primary servers....
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Who is using Wmiprvse is it SMS services
We have lot instances where the issues like CPU spike , memory usage and even some activities are caused by SMS services. In many of these cases the process in question would be wmiprvse not SMS agent...
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How to reset the policy or request a Full policy retrieval for a SMS agent
We have situations where we need to reset the policy and the policy spy which we use does not work or would not prefer to copy the tool.This is a vbscript which we can use. Found it helpful when you...
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Troubleshooting SCCM Part VII .......... OSD .... Part I
Part I : PXE bootMany have been asking to write a blog on how to tracks the logs for OSD so here it is . It is in two parts. Part I is PXE boot and Part II is After the Pxe Boot to Full blown OS....
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Troubleshooting SCCM Part VII .......... OSD .... Part II
Part II : From windows PE to Full Blown OSOnce the client boots to PXE (which we have explained in Part I ) the clients goes to the management point and get the list of policy.If any Mandatory...
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Content Lookup in configuration Manager
Content Lookup in configuration ManagerWhether it is Software distribution , Software updates deployment or application deployment in 2012 the Majority of the issues comes is w.r.t to the clients not...
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Content Distribution to Distribution Points-Part I
Content Distribution to Distribution Points -Part IFor storing the content, these are the packages available in Configuration Manager.Software Distribution PackagesApplicationSoftware Update...
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Content Distribution to Distribution Points -Part II
Content Distribution to Distribution Points -Part IIFrom Primary server To Secondary Server DPOnce you Add a secondary server DP from the primary server. The primary server distmgr will pickup the...
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Content Distribution to Distribution Points -Part III
Content Distribution to Distribution Points -Part IIIFrom primary site to Remote distribution PointIn 2012 the flow is different from 2007 when a package is distributed to a remote DP. We have the new...
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Collect Hardware Inventory of Local Admins
We had requirements on to collect the information of only local Admins.We already had blogs which were helping to find information of all local groups....
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PowerShell Script to Delete a specific update from WSUS
At time troubleshooting on cases we had to delete a specific update from the WSUS and we had done it through deleting it from database which is not a safe method. This is also helpful at times when...
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How to export the DCM baseline from one hierarchy and import to another in a...
we have scenarios where we might be needs to create and test base lines in lab and import them to production. We can use migration but if only base lines are needed to be imported these are the steps....
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Connect to WSUS server from PowerShell
At time while troubleshooting SUP (software update point)in SCCM we get error in WCM.log that we are unable to connect to WSUS server. Most of the time turning out to be proxy or a network issue, This...
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How to troubleshoot Alert\Mail notification in SCCM 2012
From SCCM 2012 we have the alert and notification feature. Till Sp1 the mail notification was restricted to endpoint protection but from Sp1 we have this for all the component which can create alert....
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