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WMUG Event - A Day with Wally Mead covering ConfigMgr 2012 RTM and SP1 on 10th of November 2012

2012-10-26T14:03:00Z

WMUG has done it again! We're very proud to announce that Wally Mead is coming back to the UK, and to WMUG on the 10th of November 2012, to present across a day on System Center 2012 Configuration Manager RTM and mostly SP1. Wally is one of the most authoritative sources of information for the product, and with his usual fast tempo and sharp wit will be taking us on a journey through the RTM and SP1 feature-sets, all the while answering questions from the audience. We are expecting Wally...(read more)

Send an email when OS deployment is completed successfully

2012-10-16T12:21:00Z

I had a client ask me if it was possible to ‘make’ ConfigMgr 2012 send an email when a workstation has finished building. They are using ConfigMgr 2012 to deploy their build. I have done this before using a VB script, but thought I would try and do it using PowerShell. There are two parts to this, first identifying a way to see that the OS deployment has completed (and being able to run an action) the second is send an email form the command line. I am going to use ‘Status...(read more)

The error was : %%1274 Group Policy and ConfigMgr Client

2012-09-25T14:28:46Z

I was working with a client who wanted to use Group Policy to install the ConfigMgr client. They had created the Group Policy with the client installation settings and had CCMSETUP.MSI as an Assigned Application. Unfortunately the client was not getting installed. A quick look in the event log on the workstation that this group policy was being tested on showed the %%1274 error. I have seen this before, it is to do with asynchronous policy processing. You need to change the following group policy...(read more)

Server 2012 and VMware Workstation 8.0.4 build-744019

2012-09-04T18:44:16Z

With the release of Windows Server 2012 to TechNet and MSDN I started the job of rebuilding my home lab (Hyper-V) and my demo setup on my laptop (Windows 7 and VMware Workstation) Server 2012 installed fine on VMware until I installed the VMware tools, after that the server would not boot and when it did the screen was just black. After looking at the settings I came across this one Accelerate 3D graphics Select this setting if you run applications that use DirectX 9 accelerated graphics. Accelerated...(read more)

Build and Capture Windows 8 Consumer Preview with ConfigMgr 2012 - Sysprep'ing the machine failed, hr=d0000004

2012-06-18T14:08:20Z

Normally I use MDT to perform the build and capture task. I thought I would try ConfigMgr 2012 to build and capture Windows 8 Consumer Preview Build 8250. I created a simple task sequence which comprised of the following steps Restart in Windows PE Partition the Disk Apply Operating System Apply Windows Settings Setup Windows and ConfigMgr Prepare ConfigMgr Client for Capture Prepare OS Capture the Reference Machine Every thing goes smoothly until the following error is displayed Straight away I...(read more)

ConfigMgr 2012 and Report Builder 2.0 is not installed

2012-06-10T15:32:07Z

You are running ConfigMgr 2012 RTM and SQL 2008 R2. You navigate to the Reports Node and right click, selecting ‘Create Report’ You receive the following error This is because you have installed SQL 2008 R2 which ships with Report Builder 3.0…..By default ConfigMgr 2012 uses Report Builder 2.0 After digging around in the registry I found that modifying the following registry key allows ConfigMgr 2012 to invoke Report Builder 3.0 from the console. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft...(read more)

Patch Management–Hide Client Software Notifications

2012-03-08T16:45:53Z

One of the problems I often encounter when implementing patch management solutions for clients is they often require different settings on clients that are managed by the same primary site server. Recently I was asked to hide all the software update deployments on workstations but make all software update deployments visible on servers. After have a long hard think and looking in the ConfigMgr SDK I found the SetUserExperienceFlag Extract take from the ConfigMgr SDK The SetUserExperienceFlag method...(read more)

ConfigMgr WSUS scan fails on server running DPM - Maximum request length exceeded

2012-03-08T15:07:20Z

I was setting up patch management for a client recently using ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 with R3 and WSUS. Everything was working fine apart from their DPM server was not returning a status of compliant. After reviewing the client side windows update agent log file %windir%\windowsupdate.log I noticed the following SyncUpdates failure, error = 0x8024400E, soap client error = 7, soap error code = 400, HTTP status code = 200 and further down in the log there was There was an exception running the extensions...(read more)

The Configuration Manager console crashes when you try to create a Reporting Service report in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 - System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException

2011-05-24T12:35:39Z

Recently I upgraded my ConfigMgr hierarchy to R3 – went very smoothly….so I thought anyway. Later on I tried to create a reporting services report on my central site server and received the following error in the admin console GUI System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key was not present in the dictionary. at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowKeyNotFoundException() at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key) at Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement...(read more)

Interactive command prompt under the system context and Server 2008

2011-02-07T15:31:00Z

I had a rather anxious phone call from a DBA friend today He had a production SQL 2008 server running in Window Authentication mode, someone had removed the main admin login. He was getting quite upset as he could not see any possible way to add it back in again, this account was the only account with admin privileges. I knew that local system had admin rights on the server so decided to try and use this as my way in, this did not go as smoothly as planned..... The server OS was 2008...(read more)

Installation not acceptable by client execmgr

2011-01-21T15:08:00Z

I had a phone call from a friend today, he could not get an advertisement to run. He emailed me over the execmgr.log, this is what I could see Creating mandatory request for advert AA120134, program Installation, package AA120234 execmgr 21/1/2011 1:27:23 PM 1064 (0x0428) Download content and mapped drive required. AA120134 - Installation not acceptable by client execmgr 21/1/2011 1:27:23 PM 2468 (0x09A4) RaisePolicyStateStatusMessage - invalid policy received execmgr 21/1/2011 1:27:23 PM 2468...(read more)

Installing and configuring WebDAV

2010-11-11T17:28:17Z

When installing and configuring WebDAV, WebDAV may not configure correctly This means that clients cannot install using 'Client Push Installation' below is the fix 1. Open %windir%\system32\inetserv\config\applicationhost.config in notepad 2. Between the entries <add name=”optionsverbhandler…> and <add name=”staticfile…> add the following line <add name="WebDAV" path="*" verb="PROPFIND,PROPPATCH,MKCOL,PUT,COPY,DELETE,MOVE,LOCK,UNLOCK" modules="WebDAVModule"...(read more)

Call of Duty Black Ops Woods Outfit

2010-11-10T18:05:02Z

If you bought the prestige edition of COD Black Ops , you will get a free Woods Outfit for your Avatar. There has been lots of questions about how to put this outfit on. The answer is very simple. Go to the avatar section under the 'suits' it will be available in there....(read more)

Save 50% - Ebook Deal of the Day

2010-10-27T16:21:50Z

O’Reilly have a sale on, you could save up to 50% Follow the link to see the 50% deal...(read more)

Query based collections in ConfigMgr 2007 may fail to refresh after being modified

2010-10-20T14:16:04Z

Consider the following System Center Configuration Manager 2007 scenario: 1. You create a query based collection. 2. You update and refresh that collection and it works correctly. 3. You go to the properties of that collection and edit the query it uses so that it should display different machines. 4. You update and refresh the collection. After doing this the machines in the collection may still reflect the original query and never be updated. Read the rest of the article here...(read more)