Recently we began seeing a problem where applications were deployed to a machine, but they were not displaying in software center. Firing up the ConfigMgr toolkit, I saw the applications as applicable, but they weren’t being evaluated. If I created a new deployment with the exact same settings, then it would work just fine. After lots […]
I was banging my head against a wall for a bit with some new machines (Dell Optiplex 3020’s) we got in that wouldn’t PXE boot. They would start, then error out with 0xc0000001, “A required device isn’t connected or can’t be accessed”. I knew I had the right drivers installed in my pxe boot media, […]
I attended a few of the OSD deployment sessions with Johan Arwidmark at both the main TechEd conference, and also at TechEd Day 5 put on my HASMUG. Here are some of the things I thought were good to remember. I appologize for the text wall, but its all good info. ________________________________ SMSTS.log has a 1mb […]
Ran into a new error today, and took some time to figure out the solution. We had a new Dell come in with a SSD (unknown at the time that it had an SSD, nobody mentioned it to me) that was getting an error during the unattended phase of windows setup. The full error […]
Recently Ive been playing with SCOM. I have a service that keeps dying on my terminal servers, and I wanted it to restart automatically. It took a lot of searching to come up with the solution, but it works perfectly! Now it restarts the service and sends me an email so I know it happened. […]
Being a mostly all Dell shop, getting warranty info right from the console would be extremely helpful. Luckily, someone made a console extension to do just that! More info can be found here: http://www.scconfigmgr.com/2013/10/11/get-dell-warranty-status-within-configmgr-2012-console/
While trying to install the SCVMM management packs into SCOM, I hit a wall with the Microsoft.Windows.InternetInformationServices.2003 dependency failing to resolve itself. I searched on pinpoint directly and couldn’t find the MP. After a bunch of digging, it turns out its part of the IIS 7 MP (which seems strange). Here is a link to that […]
Yesterday I dove in and updated all my System Center products to 2012 R2. Overall it was fairly straightforward. One note of caution, there is an order to do the upgrades. You can find that order here: http://bit.ly/12fVork Overall it was pretty straightforward. Even though all the products fall under the “System Center” umbrella, you can […]
Thats right. Even after IE10 being out for a few months, Microsoft has not acknowledged or fixed this issue. The problem is that the registry points to the wrong spot for the IE10 DLL files. In altiris, this manifested as the console saying “restarting computer to prepare for imaging” forever and the machine not doing […]
I recently installed SP1 to my Configuration Manager 2012 environment, and ran across a little hiccup. I couldnt start the admin console on my desktop. Turns out, if you have the scorch SCCM IP installed it will happen. Here is the KB article on how to fix it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2800707
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