Wednesday, 13 February 2013

ConfigMgr 2012 / SCCM 2012 SP1 Step by Step Guide

Welcome to my System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 Step by Step Guide. These posts will include a full implementation and configuration of Config Mgr 2012 SP1 using Windows Server 2012 and SQL 2012.

(You can also use this guide for the implementation of SCCM 2012 R2. There is only one difference in prerequisites - ADK 8.1 is required instead of ADK 8.0. This is highlighted in the Prerequisites section.)

They will help you to learn more about the product and allow you to get started in your lab environment.

Use the following links to browse each section.

ConfigMgr 2012 / SCCM 2012 Design Considerations

Part 1: Prerequisites

Part 2: SQL 2012 

 ConfigMgr & SQL - some tips

Part 3: ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 Installation

Install Cumulative Update 2 (or CU3)

In-place upgrade SCCM 2012 SP1 to R2

SCCM 2012 R2 Hotfix installation

Some Cool New Features in R2

Part 4: ConfigMgr Service Accounts

Part 5: ConfigMgr Log Viewer

Part 6: Boundaries and Discovery Methods

Part 7: ConfigMgr Client and Client Agents

Additional Management Points 

Additional Distribution Points 

Part 8: Operating System Deployment - Boot Images and Distribution Point

Part 9: Operating System Deployment - Drivers and Driver Packages

Part 10: Operating System Deployment - Capture Image from reference computer

Part 11: Operating System Deployment - Task Sequence

Part 12: Operating System Deployment - DHCP and Computer Name

Part 13: Operating System Deployment - Deploying new computers

Part 13a: Updating Image with DISM

 Part 13b: Installing and Integrating MDT 2012

Part 13c: Create MDT Boot Image

 Part 13e: In place migration XP to Windows 7

Create customised reference image with MDT 

 Part 14: SQL Reporting

Part 15: Software Updates (Microsoft)

Part 15a: Software Updates (Notification behaviour)

Possible Software Updates strategy 

Part 16: Software Updates (Non-Microsoft)

Part 17: Add updates directly to an image

Part 18: Software Distribution - MSI

Part 19: Software Distribution - EXE

Part 20: Software Distribution - Office 2013

Part 21: Asset Intelligence

Part 22: Mobile Device Management - Domain Registration and User Sync in Intune

Part 23: Mobile Device Management - Config Mgr Connector and Intune Subscription

Part 24: Mobile Device Management - Enrol iPhone

Part 25: Mobile Device Management - Create Config Mgr App and deploy to iPhone

Part 26: Mobile Device Management - What can we manage?

New - Mobile Device Management in R2 Full implementation

Part 27: Wake on LAN 

Part 28: Compliance

Part 29: Power Management

Part 30: Add Administrative Users

Part 31: Install ConfigMgr Admin Console

Part 32: Migration from ConfigMgr 2007

Part 33: Troubleshooting

Part 34: Application Catalog

Part 35: Endpoint Protection

Part 36: Anti-Virus Exclusions

Part 37: ConfigMgr & PowerShell

Managing Linux clients with ConfigMgr 2012 R2 

ConfigMgr 2012 - Random problems I've encountered  

ConfigMgr 2012 - Integrate with 1E Nomad 

Add boundary for Direct Access clients 

Analyse your ConfigMgr data with Microsoft Power BI

Third party patching with Secunia CSI
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210 comments:

  1. Anonymous23 February 2013 at 23:01

    Hi Gerry when will you post steps for Wake on LAN and Out of Band Management?
    love these blog posts

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  2. Anonymous10 April 2013 at 18:57

    Gary do you have this step by step in a doc?

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  3. Gerry Hampson11 April 2013 at 08:05

    I'm sorry. I don't. I just publish directly to the blog.

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  4. Gerry Hampson11 April 2013 at 08:14

    I have posted the Wake on LAN process which can be implemented to work well. However the Out of Band Management feature has proven to be very troublesome and, quite frankly, not worth the effort. It's very easy to implement. However the provisioning of the AMT devices seems to be very hit and miss. I guess that's why the feature isn't very popular.

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  5. Anonymous15 April 2013 at 13:12

    Amazing site and excellent resource for anyone interested to learn CM2012. I will use to set up home lab and use this guide for learning. Many thanks for sharing. Hope you will come up with more lab in the future.

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  6. Gerry Hampson15 April 2013 at 13:36

    Thanks for the comment. I'm pleased you find the blogs useful.

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  7. Gerry Hampson16 April 2013 at 07:42

    I'm sorry. I won't be able to create blog posts to order. I create posts based on work that I carry out for customers. I previously deployed the App-V 4.6 client using SCCM 2007 and that was pretty straightforward. Version 5 via SCCM 2012 will be no different. You just need to be careful that you research all the required prerequisites - there are quite a few Visual C++ and .Net Framework updates required. You then create SCCM Applications based on the type of file extension and deploy them sequentially.

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  8. Anonymous21 April 2013 at 08:54

    Hi Gerry

    Thank you for all you have done and countless hours you spent to share your experience with us.
    Your page is the most valuable resource that I found.

    Is it possible to create some articles about migrating from 2007 to 2012?

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  9. Gerry Hampson21 April 2013 at 14:22

    Thanks for your comment. I did some migrations from 2007 to 2012 last year but unfortunately did not take screenshots at the time. I will on the next project. Hopefully I will have one soon.

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  10. Anonymous24 April 2013 at 02:47

    Hello Gerry ,

    Your Blogs looks amazing . I am new to SCCM. Please advice me how to start learning this wonderful twchnology.

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  11. VK26 April 2013 at 09:44

    Hello Gerry,

    Your blog is really good. I am looking for in place upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7. Also we cannot have the PXE enabled in our environment. So how can this be achieved?

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  12. Gerry Hampson26 April 2013 at 11:13

    Create your task sequence as normal. Then use the "Create Task Sequence Media" wizard to prepare a USB deployment solution.

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  13. Anonymous26 April 2013 at 15:16

    Just wanted to say this has really helped me with OSD in my enviornment. Great work!

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  14. Anonymous28 May 2013 at 11:58

    Hi i guess your site bit fine tuning necessary since advanced troubleshooting is required & few explain about task & steps as well this is my opinion

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  15. Gerry Hampson28 May 2013 at 12:32

    SCCM is an enterprise solution. Advanced troubleshooting is always required. However the blog is designed to help others get up and running as quickly as possible.

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  16. Anonymous30 May 2013 at 11:44

    Great articles
    Do you have them all as one file ( PDF or DOC )
    really helpfulllll

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  17. Gerry Hampson30 May 2013 at 13:52

    Thanks for that. Sorry I don't have PDF or DOC.

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  18. cam30 May 2013 at 23:15

    Thank you for you fantastic blog. It was very easy to follow and somehow you managed to do it all with more visual less text! Can not recommend highly enough.

    One question, will you be covering endpoint protection at some point?

    Thanks again.

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  19. Gerry Hampson31 May 2013 at 09:08

    Thanks a lot. I hope to be covering Endpoint Protection soon.

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  20. Touhidul Islam19 June 2013 at 11:31

    Great effort...expecting more in next days...

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  21. vic3324 June 2013 at 14:03

    Hi Gerry - I really enjoy your blogs for SCCM and working on my own implementation. I wanted to review Software Distribution but keep getting an error on all links, "Blog has been removed".

    Please tell me this isn't so.

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  22. Gerry Hampson24 June 2013 at 14:14

    New link Vic. Please confirm that all is OK with this

    http://gerryhampsoncm.blogspot.ie/2013/02/sccm-2012-sp1-step-by-step-guide.html

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  23. vic3324 June 2013 at 15:26

    Thank you Gerry. New link is working.

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  24. Anonymous25 June 2013 at 05:59

    Hey Gerry,
    Thanks for the deep knowledge you shared with us. I liked this whole blog so much. The new link is working great.

    br,
    Anurag

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  25. Anonymous15 July 2013 at 18:29

    Gerry - Are you able to do any articles on how to add MAC clients to SCCM?

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  26. Gerry Hampson15 July 2013 at 19:15

    Just navigate to Assets & Compliance > Devices and choose Import Computer Information in the ribbon above.

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  27. Anonymous15 July 2013 at 20:20

    These MAC computers do not have any agents and SCCM is not setup yet (PKI Certs, HTTPS, etc.) to allow the clients. Are you able to do a blog on this process?

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  28. Gerry Hampson16 July 2013 at 07:32

    Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were trying to add devices with known MAC addresses to ConfigMgr. I won't be doing any blog on MAC computers. It's not an area that interests me.

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  29. Shaheen18 August 2013 at 10:57

    Hi Gerry,
    I did not see the Step by step guide but it should be more than enough for beginners to deploy SCCM 2012 SP1 . I have a question .
    1- How I will know that what went wrong to a client who are not a SCCM Client means while install agent?
    2- How I can force the agent without right click and install client?
    3- How I can clear the total number of computer at risk?

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  30. Gerry Hampson18 August 2013 at 12:26

    1. Check out ccm.log file on the server.
    2. You could enable Automatic Client Push for the Site (right click site > Client Installation settings > Client Push). Then the client will automatically be installed as soon as the computer is discovered.
    3. I don't understand this question

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  31. Unknown21 August 2013 at 09:09

    Hi Gerry,

    The guides which you have posted is very useful for us to understand and implement the same.
    I am unable to find a clear guide for IBCM implementation where can i find a guide to implement IBCM. kindly guide me in correct path to implement IBCM.
    Expecting much more in the future from your blog.

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  32. Gerry Hampson21 August 2013 at 11:22

    Some useful IBCM information here:

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg712701.aspx#Support_Internet_Clients

    http://cf1.wipro.com/cf1Plugin/upload/IBCM%20Client%20Installation%20Guide.pdf

    http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1912064&seqNum=9

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  33. Anonymous21 September 2013 at 18:27

    Excellent Guide.... One quick question - In our setting (CM 2007) the applications advertised show up a bit late in run advertised program. Is their any option in config manager or on the client side to initiate the application advertised to show in RAP immediately when user login. User mostly have to wait like 15 minutes for all applications to show up in RAP. We have automated silent install for most of the applications. User just have to select the applications and the install will go in the background without any user action.
    I even tried Machine and User policy initiation - yet the applications do not show up in RAP immediately. Appreciate if you can help me.

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  34. Gerry Hampson22 September 2013 at 19:50

    You need to Initiate Policy Retrieval as soon as possible after logon. Why not add a logon script that does this? You can find an example here

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb633207.aspx

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  35. Anonymous30 September 2013 at 13:29

    Thanks for your input. Will try this week and update.

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  36. Anonymous4 October 2013 at 23:22

    Thank you very much Gerry
    I'm very thankful for such great topics series
    I've a question, what about the 'out of band management' feature?
    It's complicated and hard to understand

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  37. Gerry Hampson6 October 2013 at 10:20

    You're quite welcome. The Out of Band Management feature, as you say, can be quite complicated to implement. You also need to make sure that you open the correct ports on your firewalls to allow it to work (443, 16993 and 16995). However it isn't very popular and I don't bother with it.

    The reason is it's limitations. It only supports certain chipsets (and not current ones). These are the chipsets that are supported (there are more recent versions - AMT 7.0, AMT 8.0 and AMT 9.0).

    • Intel AMT version 3.2 with a minimum revision of 3.2.1
    • Intel AMT version 4.0, version 4.1, and version 4.2
    • Intel AMT version 5.0 and version 5.2 with a minimum revision of 5.2.10
    • Intel AMT version 6.0 and version 6.1

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  38. Kundan19 October 2013 at 20:12

    Hi Gerry,

    Thanks for your provided solution on machine slowness issue, due to SCCM client agent.

    I have installed the patch from the below URL , which you had suggested me. And the issue got resolved.

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7d3145ec-0236-44d3-adae-915efbb4f4d6/major-wmi-repository-problems-workstations-slowing-to-a-crawl

    Thanks once again.

    Regards,
    Kundan

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  39. Gerry Hampson20 October 2013 at 15:04

    That's no bother Kundan. I'm glad I was able to help.

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  40. Mike29 October 2013 at 08:54

    Gerry,

    Do I need to extend my AD schema before installing SCCM 2012 ? Is is compulsory?

    Thanks

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  41. Gerry Hampson29 October 2013 at 10:12

    You don't have to do it Mike, but it's highly advisable to do so. You can read about it here

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg712272.aspx

    You can see that there are considerations if you don't extend the schema. It's actually no big deal. I've described how to do it here

    http://www.gerryhampsoncm.blogspot.ie/2013/02/sccm-2012-sp1-step-by-step-guide-part-1.html

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  42. Anonymous30 October 2013 at 09:30

    Hello Gerry ,

    Your Blogs looks amazing . I am new to SCCM. Please advice me how to start learning.....

    Thanks in advance...

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  43. Gerry Hampson30 October 2013 at 16:50

    Start by building yourself a virtual lab. Build a DC, a member server and some clients. Then install ConfigMgr and start implementing the features. It's the only way to learn.

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    1. Anonymous17 May 2014 at 19:50

      Hi Sir,

      Hi,

      How can we deploy software distribution packages through priority wise.

      Like I have 2 iexplorer updates as ms180 and ms 182. How can we make ms180 should be installed first and then ms182 installed priority type in single package


      My mail Id varunashat@gmail.com

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    2. Anonymous17 May 2014 at 19:51

      please reply me ASAP

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    3. Gerry Hampson19 May 2014 at 14:10

      You want both ms180 and ms182 to be installed but you want ms180 to be installed first. Create two applications or packages. Configure ms180 to be a dependency of ms182. Then deploy ms182 to a collection.

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  44. Unknown7 November 2013 at 09:58

    Hi Gerry,

    Sorted out the last problem i had with my SCCM installation,it was because of the WADK as you told me ;-).

    Today at work a doubt arose.

    We are involved in a project about a clean installation of an SCCM 2012 R2 infrastructure with SQL 2012 SP1 and on top of Server 2012 R2 (latest technologies).

    We have over 1300 end user devices splited across our main site,2 datacenters and 18 remote offices.

    I know that the best practice is to deploy an standalone site server with a local SQL,apart from the benefits we get over the SQL control and permissions simplification.

    Our project not only involves one stream as we have a desktop stream,remote access solution,PKI,MBAM,etc...

    Within the Management stream (SCCM & MBAM) i suggested that the MBAM could use the SCCM database as the only purpose would be to store the client recovery keys.

    Now a colleague came to me today saying that he needs SQL space for VMware View.

    I've designed the type of infrastructure my client needs for SCCM/SQL but know am not sure if it's a good practice to delegate SCCM database for other purposes.Suggested that SCCM database should only be used for SCCM purposes,therefore additional SQL databases should be deployed and that way additional SQL licenses for my client.

    Do you agree with me?Or it doesn't matter if SCCM SQL is used to store other kind of data as long as we got the sufficient resources for it to work properly?

    So the question is,taking into account this scenario,what would the best solution be like,several SQL databases across the organization and that way we dedicate a SQL only for SCCM&MBAM and additional SQL for VMware view and other technologies that might need it or instead we can deploy a central SQL for SCCM and the rest of technologies giving for granted the hardware resources we would probably need in that scenario?

    Sorry for the long question but i'd really appreciate a hand on this.


    Regards,

    Felipe.

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  45. Gerry Hampson7 November 2013 at 11:20

    Hi Felipe,

    I'm with you on this. I always recommend a local SQL that is dedicated to SCCM and it's related technologies (WSUS, MDT etc). I don't want other databases using these resources. Also, Microsoft give you the local SQL for free if you only use it for SCCM. Once you add another database you have to pay for the SQL license.

    Regards,
    Gerry

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  46. Unknown7 November 2013 at 14:31

    Hi Gerry,

    Do you have any link to Microsoft's website relating this topic?Not about a local/remote SQL for SCCM but if it's best practice to dedicate that database only for SCCM purposes and different instances for different applications.

    Thanks a lot.


    Felipe.

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  47. Gerry Hampson7 November 2013 at 16:11

    I don't Felipe,

    Microsoft don't usually publish that kind of information. Best practice is normally developed by the community and people's experience. If you need something in writing for a customer I would suggest you ask the question in the ConfigMgr Technet Forum. and then present the answers to the customer. The answers will be by community experts (I may answer myself if I see it). Here is the link:

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?category=systemcenter2012configurationmanager

    Gerry

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  48. Anonymous12 November 2013 at 16:24

    Hi there! Great post, thanks so much!!
    One thing: Why is "Part 13d: Create MDT Task Sequence Windows 8" missing? Are you currently working on it and it'll return after that? Please tell me, thx.

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  49. Gerry Hampson12 November 2013 at 16:53

    Something like that. I never got around to finishing it. I don't think I will now as I'll be concentrating on the newer versions - ConfigMgr 2012R2 and MDT 2013.

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  50. Anonymous13 November 2013 at 13:55

    Just want to say this is a really good resource. I am planning a migration from 2007 to 2012 and this is just what I need. Cheers for all your hard work on this.

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  51. Gerry Hampson13 November 2013 at 14:25

    Thanks a lot

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  52. Anonymous14 November 2013 at 11:40

    Hi Gerry,

    I'm looking with regards to Bandwidth Requirements for SCCM 2012 SP1.
    I would like to know Bandwidth Requirements to help in designing for Branch Offices scenario.

    Where I can get information about it?

    Thank you!

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  53. Gerry Hampson14 November 2013 at 13:27

    Surprisingly there is no official information about this. It's because all infrastructures are different and there are so many features that could be implemented in ConfigMgr. There are guidelines on when you would use Secondary Site vs Distribution Points. In borderline cases the advice would be to deploy DPs and monitor WAN links to verify that the traffic is within acceptable parameters. If it isn't use a Secondary Site.

    You can find "Planning for Network Bandwidth in Configuration Manager" here
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg712701.aspx#Plan_Network_Bandwidth

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  54. Anonymous19 November 2013 at 01:11

    Hi Gerry. Thank you for a very usefull blog. I just started to learn SCCM and hope this speeds up things for me:)

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  55. Prabhas Upadhyay24 November 2013 at 15:02

    Thanks Gary .. Still Best document in Internet..

    Thanks Again.

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  56. Gerry Hampson24 November 2013 at 18:58

    Thanks Prabhas. That's nice to hear.

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  57. Anonymous29 November 2013 at 07:50

    Hi Gerry,

    Part 13d: Create MDT Task Sequence Windows 8 is not active?

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  58. Ram29 November 2013 at 11:12

    I visit your site everyday to learn new things. Look forward to more material on CM2012R2 & MDT 2013.

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  59. Gerry Hampson29 November 2013 at 17:19

    Yes, I never got to finish that. I've removed the link now.

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  60. Unknown12 December 2013 at 01:55

    Hi Jerry,
    This is by far the best resource guide for a beginner to get hands on rolling out SCCM 2012 in the shortest possible time. I have been able to do it by reading your articles.

    Thanks a lot Jerry

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  61. Gerry Hampson12 December 2013 at 12:05

    You're welcome Arun. Thanks.

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  62. Unknown24 December 2013 at 21:28

    hi Gerry, need your help, as i have dell 9020 new system and i need to put this in SCCM 2007 server, could you please let me know the steps. thanks in advance.

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  63. Anonymous30 December 2013 at 11:27

    Hi Gerry,

    To echo others on this blog, this site is brilliant, SCCM can be a bit of a monster.

    I have a 2007 SCCM install and have been tasked with migrating this to SCCM 2012, I understand that I will have to first install SC 2012 with a new DB and have this up and running first, then migrate across the objects, collections etc from 2007, I just have one question that I need some clarity on before I start.

    Can I install SC 2012 with a primary site along side my SCCM 2007 primary site on the same domain? I am assuming as long as they have different SQL db's and different names this should be ok, or am I wrong? Any advice or pointers on this would be much appreciated.

    Regards

    Tony

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    1. Gerry Hampson2 January 2014 at 10:55

      Thanks Tony. Absolutely you can. It's a normal and common process. Have a look here

      http://www.gerryhampsoncm.blogspot.ie/2013/07/configmgr-2012-sccm-2012-sp1-step-by.html

      It's a pretty comprehensive guide.

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  64. Gerry Hampson2 January 2014 at 10:44

    Sorry for the delay in responding Anant. I've been on vacation. Have a look a this link

    http://www.gerryhampsoncm.blogspot.ie/2013/02/sccm-2012-sp1-step-by-step-guide-part-9.html

    It's for ConfigMgr 2012 but the principle is the same for 07. You need to ensure that the NIC driver is added to the boot image. Also create a driver package and add it to your task sequence.

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  65. Anonymous2 January 2014 at 12:40

    Great Stuff, Thanks Gerry.

    Tony

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  66. PaulV6 January 2014 at 17:36

    Hi Gerry,

    I plan on taking 70-243 exam soon(end of this month). Do you have any tips or ideas that maybe helpful for me to pass this exam.
    Also do you plan on coming out with any disaster recovery scenarios for Config 2012. Say entire site goes down how do you recovery and what options you select.

    Thanks,
    Paul

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    1. Gerry Hampson7 January 2014 at 10:55

      It's been so long since I did that exam Paul, I can't quite remember. The one thing I do recall is that there was quite an emphasis on knowing which was the correct log file to use in a given situation.

      Regarding DR, ConfigMgr is not a real-time application like Exchange, for example. In my opinion it doesn't matter so much if there is a little down-time. In general I don't think it's necessary to try and implement highly available environments. ConfigMgr 2012 can be recovered from SQL backup alone. Therefore I spend more time ensuring that the site can be recovered in an acceptable time-frame - a couple of hours.

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  67. Anonymous20 January 2014 at 12:57

    Gerry,

    Cant thank you enough !

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  68. Anonymous28 January 2014 at 14:21

    Hello Gerry,
    thank you very much for this very good and helpful guide!
    It's perfect for rookies and to have a first look at SCCM!

    BR
    Steve

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  69. Mafeermon5 February 2014 at 13:31

    Hi,

    Unable to connect to WMI on remote machine error = 0x800706ba

    I am getting the above error in CCM.LOG when install client from SCCM 2012 Management.

    below log details fyi.

    please help me to solve this issue.

    ======>Begin Processing request: "16777229", machine name: "SALMAN-PC" $$<02-05-2014 16:58:36.020-240>
    Waiting for change in directory "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\inboxes\ccr.box" for queue "Incoming", (30 minute backup timeout). $$<02-05-2014 16:58:36.020-240>
    Execute query exec [sp_IsMPAvailable] N'3GP'~ $$<02-05-2014 16:58:36.022-240>
    ---> Trying the 'best-shot' account which worked for previous CCRs (index = 0x0)~ $$<02-05-2014 16:58:36.024-240>
    ---> Attempting to connect to administrative share '\\SALMAN-PC\admin$' using account '3RDGROUP\Administrator'~ $$<02-05-2014 16:58:36.025-240>
    ---> The 'best-shot' account has now succeeded 197 times and failed 8 times. $$<02-05-2014 16:58:36.073-240>
    ---> Connected to administrative share on machine SALMAN-PC using account '3RDGROUP\Administrator'~ $$<02-05-2014 16:58:36.073-240>
    ---> Attempting to make IPC connection to share <\\SALMAN-PC\IPC$> ~ $$<02-05-2014 16:58:36.074-240>
    ---> Searching for SMSClientInstall.* under '\\SALMAN-PC\admin$\'~ $$<02-05-2014 16:58:36.076-240>
    ---> Unable to connect to WMI on remote machine "SALMAN-PC", error = 0x800706ba. $$<02-05-2014 16:58:57.115-240>
    ---> Deleting SMS Client Install Lock File '\\SALMAN-PC\admin$\SMSClientInstall.3GP'~ $$<02-05-2014 16:58:57.116-240>
    Execute query exec [sp_CP_SetLastErrorCode] 16777229, -2147023174~ $$<02-05-2014 16:58:57.124-240>
    Stored request "16777229", machine name "SALMAN-PC", in queue "Retry". $$<02-05-2014 16:58:57.127-240>
    Execute query exec [sp_CP_SetPushRequestMachineStatus] 16777229, 2~ $$<02-05-2014 16:58:57.128-240>
    Execute query exec [sp_CP_SetLatest] 16777229, N'02/05/2014 12:58:57', 26~ $$<02-05-2014 16:58:57.131-240>
    <======End request: "16777229", machine name: "SALMAN-PC". $$<02-05-2014 16:58:57.133-240>

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    1. Gerry Hampson5 February 2014 at 17:26

      0x800706ba = The RPC server is unavailable.

      This is often caused when the Windows Firewall is turned on.

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    2. Mafeermon6 February 2014 at 06:30

      Hi,

      I have checked, the firewall is OFF. Do I need to open any ports in firewall settings ?, if so kindly give me the port numbers...

      Actually its happening only for few PC's.

      Really appreciated for your "ConfigMgr 2012 / SCCM 2012 SP1 Step by Step Guide", It has almost everything.

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    3. Gerry Hampson6 February 2014 at 14:51

      That's no bother.

      If this is only happening on a few PCs you've been quite lucky. Client Push is normally about 90% successful. You can't be responsible for the state of every client out there.

      At this point I would recommend that you install the client manually.
      Browse to \\SCCMServer\SMS_XXX\Client and launch ccmsetup.exe (XXX is your site code).

      Alternatively I'm a big fan of using a computer startup script to get the client out there using Group Policy. This is the best one:

      http://blog.configmgrftw.com/?page_id=349

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  70. Anonymous10 February 2014 at 02:58

    Gerry,

    Will the install for 2012 be very different if using 08R2 and SQL 2008.

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    1. Gerry Hampson10 February 2014 at 10:56

      Not really. The pre-requisites for Windows Server 2008R2 will be the same. For SQL 2008 the minimum supported versions are SP2 CU9 or SP3 CU4.

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  71. Unknown18 February 2014 at 21:29

    Hi Gerry,

    In our environment already working fine sccm 2007. Now sccm 2012 also installed and we are trying to do OSD via sccm 2012 Task sequence and deployed the OS (windows7 64 bit version & Symantec 64 bit) & Apps perfect.

    After 24 hours the issue from sccm2007 client server, On windows 7 client machine installing 2007 client and removing Symantec 64bit version and unrecognized apps by 2007.

    Please suggest me how to restrict 2007 client server installation on the existing win 7 64bit deployed via sccm 2012.

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  72. Unknown19 February 2014 at 23:11

    Gerry,

    Thanks for the great tutorial for setting up SCCM 2012. Do you recommend keeping the SQL instance on a separate box from the Primary site? What is general best practice (and advantages/disadvantages)?

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    1. Gerry Hampson20 February 2014 at 19:05

      I recommend local. See my views

      http://www.gerryhampsoncm.blogspot.ie/2013/10/configmgr-sql-some-tips.html

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  73. Unknown25 February 2014 at 17:22

    Hi Gerry,

    Thanks lot my previous question.. I have one more
    I am trying to deploy the Task Sequence via SCCM2012 server and I am getting the following error

    "Downloaded WDSNBP from: 9.2.92.43

    Architecture: X64

    The details below show the information relating to the PXE boot request for
    This computer. Please provide these details to your Windows Deployment Service
    Administrator so that this request can be approved,

    Pending Request ID: 23

    Message from Administrator:
    Configuration Manager is looking for policy.

    Connecting server: 9.2.92.43......."

    I am using the boot disk to install the task sequence to the same client it's installing OS perfect.

    Please advice me to fix this issue. Thanks lot once again.

    Srikanth

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    1. Gerry Hampson27 February 2014 at 12:39

      Your last line is

      "Connecting server: 9.2.92.43......."

      What is the error?

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    2. Unknown28 February 2014 at 16:42

      Sorry I missed that now read the below

      Connecting server: 10.28.92.43.
      TFTP Download: smsboot\x64\pxeboot.com

      Press F12 for network service boot
      PXE-M0F: Exiting intel Boot Agent.

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    3. Gerry Hampson28 February 2014 at 18:08

      smsboot\x64\pxeboot.com

      This doesn't seem right. How did you configure this - IP Helper or DHCP options? What parameters did you use?

      See here:

      http://www.gerryhampsoncm.blogspot.ie/2013/02/sccm-2012-sp1-step-by-step-guide-part_9487.html

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  74. Unknown3 March 2014 at 23:40

    Hi Gerry,
    Once again thanks lot to you

    I am working for deskptop OS migration from windows XP to Windows 7 in sccm 2012 R2 environment.
    Created the boot.wim file 3.0 version by using WAIK tool, and injected all driver files into the boot.wim. Added into sccm 2012 R2 server and distributed to corresponding Distribution Point.
    Created Tasksequence in my first step to "restart the computer" using this boot.wim file.
    Deployed the task sequence to windows-xp collection
    XP machine is restarting and displaying with the below task sequence error
    Task Sequence Error
    "Windows PE initialization Failed with error code 0x80040154"
    Restarted the machine and then show the below error as dos mode
    "Windows failed to start. A recent hardware software change migration
    cause. To fix the problem

    1. Insert your windows installation disc and restart your computer
    2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next"
    If you do not have this disc, contact your systems administrator
    Satus: 0xc000000f
    Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible"

    My question is about which version of boot.wim can i use for migration of windows xp 32 bit to win7 64 bit?.
    Thanks
    srikanth

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    1. Unknown5 March 2014 at 22:29

      Hi Gerry.

      Thanks, we have created the boot.wim file through WADK8.1 version. Now its working fine.

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    2. Anonymous23 July 2014 at 21:22

      Hi Srikanth / Hampson,

      Im also facing same issue.. What is the Solution

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    3. Anonymous7 August 2014 at 11:03

      Hi Hampson ,

      Could you please respond to above query.query. Im also facing the same error
      Task Sequence Error
      "Windows PE initialization Failed with error code 0x80040154"

      Can you explain what srikanth is refered here

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    4. Unknown20 August 2014 at 13:24

      Hi,

      I also have the same error. What is the solution?

      Thank you.

      Florent

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  75. Anonymous16 March 2014 at 15:50

    Hi Gerry,
    Firstly would like to thank you for the great blog of yours on SCCM 2012, really very helpful. I am working on a project and need to implement OOB but as you mentioned in one of your comment that its not worth the effort, would you please point me to any doc or link which could help me ? I need the details on installing the CA and types of certificates we use. Shall appreciate any help. Thanks again.
    Munish

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  76. Unknown17 March 2014 at 16:50

    Hi Gerry,
    Thanks for this wonderful site and helping us with your knowledge. I am working on a project on SCCM 2012 OOB management but getting stuck. Please direct me to any link or any doc or yours and I shall be really grateful to you. I have seen your comments above on OOB in 2012 but any pointer would help me.
    Thanks in advance

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    1. Gerry Hampson19 March 2014 at 07:48

      Good luck with the OOB implementation. This is the best resource I've seen for the certificate requirements.

      http://blogs.msdn.com/b/scstr/archive/2012/05/31/step_2d00_by_2d00_step_2d00_example_2d00_deployment_2d00_of_2d00_the_2d00_pki_2d00_certificates_2d00_for_2d00_configuration_2d00_manager_2d00_2012_2d00_windows_2d00_server_2d00_2008.aspx

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  77. Anonymous19 March 2014 at 21:43

    Hi Gerry
    Thanks for taking the trouble to publish this guide - I really wish I had found it a couple of months ago. I had tried following someone else's step by step guide and had been banging my head against a wall having SCCM apparently installed but the clients unable to install. A complete uninstall and then following your guide - in particular the prerequisites that had been mostly skipped over in the other guide, and presto - all my clients automatically discovered and set up.
    Thank you so much.
    Rob Lewis - Adelaide, South Australia

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    1. Gerry Hampson20 March 2014 at 08:30

      You're welcome Rob. Thanks for the feedback.

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  78. Anonymous31 March 2014 at 10:13

    Hi Gerry,

    Thanks for all this help. Will you post a step for UDI configuration ?

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    1. Atomski16 October 2014 at 08:11

      Hi, can you please make UDI configuration?

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  79. Ram6 April 2014 at 12:30

    Gerry - My client is in the process of migrating from XP to Win 7. They would like to have the following done during the migration process.
    1. BIOS should be upgraded to the latest version for all Desktop & Laptop
    2. The hardware is DELL (OptiPlex 780, 790 E4310, E6400, E6410, E6420 & E6320.
    3. Computer Name after Win 7 migration should bear S/N of the hardware

    How can, I accomplish above task. Going to try first at my home lab and then try the same at the client site (test test and then to prod). The BIOS are in exe format. Don't know how, I can include them in the TS during OSD process. Appreciate your help on the above. Please take your time. I am in no hurry.

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    1. Gerry Hampson6 April 2014 at 21:59

      1.BIOS updates - have a look at using the Dell CCTK utility

      http://windowsmasher.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/sccm-task-sequence-updating-dell-bios-versions/

      2. Computer name: the easiest way to do this is to integrate MDT with ConfigMgr. The method is shown well in this blog.

      http://heinrichandsccm.blogspot.ie/2013/06/how-to-set-computer-name-to-the-serial.html

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    2. Ram7 April 2014 at 02:12

      Thanks for the link. You have everything at your finger tip.

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    3. Gerry Hampson7 April 2014 at 14:51

      You're welcome Ram.

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  80. Gerry Hampson1 May 2014 at 11:27

    Hi Liam.

    Unfortunately there is no silver bullet for this. It's not supported to change the domain membership of a ConfigMgr site system so that's out.

    You will have to install ConfigMgr again in the new forest and create a new site. Then you would configure a migration hierarchy between the two environments (assumes a trust relationship) (as they are the same version). You can then migrate what you wish.

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  81. Unknown2 May 2014 at 00:48

    Gerry Thank you for your Post it is great. I have been unable to fully install SCCM 2012, running on SQL server 2012 SP1 CMU5(11.0.3128), I have tried this with CMU 2 and It Continues to say that I need to upgrade SQL to install. Any Ideas?

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  82. Gerry Hampson2 May 2014 at 12:42

    It is fully supported to install ConfigMgr 2012 R2 on SQL 2012 SP1 with no CU. However I believe that SQL 2012 SP1 is unstable until at least CU4 (we're at CU9 at the time of writing).

    However, Ralph, you haven't given enough information for me to help you -

    What version of ConfigMgr?
    Remote or local SQL?
    Is you install account local admin and sysadmin?
    etc

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  83. Anonymous5 May 2014 at 22:56

    Hi Gerry, when do you could publish a NAP and SCCM 2012 integration?


    Thanks!!

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  84. Ram6 May 2014 at 18:41

    I have completed all the labs you posted above. Everything went well. Now, I have an understanding of how CM2012 R2 works. Thanks to you.

    By the way will there be any post/lab on how to deploy app-v prereq & applications in CM2012 R2? That is the only topic not covered here. Just a request................

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  85. Unknown13 May 2014 at 13:33

    ​Hi ive set up an sccm 2012 sp1 lab with 1 DC, 1 configmgr server, 1 client, evrything installe ok , hiwever im getting the rror about sms hierachy manager, relating to sql, . I checked on SQL and the admin account has the required permissions,
    Any ideas on what might be wrong

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    1. Gerry Hampson13 May 2014 at 13:51

      You'll have to be a bit more specific about the error Samuel.

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  86. Gurpreet10 June 2014 at 14:08

    Hello Gerry,

    First and most thanks for putting this great information on the internet. This is lot of work. After looking all the posts and comments, I would like to ask few questions all together and seek your reply.

    1. I have machine that has SCCM client installed; however when I reimage the PXE does not work and I have to delete the device from the SCCM database. Can you explain why this is happening?

    2. Can I advertise all images to a collection so that it they can be chosen upon PXE boot as options?

    3. Can SCCM query the system BIOS to only inject the driver for a particular model by folder?


    Thanks in advance






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    1. Gerry Hampson11 June 2014 at 08:29

      You're welcome Gurpreet.
      1. This is probably because you have deployed your task sequence to "Unknown Computers". When you delete a computer from the database it becomes Unknown and therefore can use the TS. This is a good practice scenario.
      2. You can deploy multiple task sequences to Unknown Computers and they will be available as a list to choose from.
      3. Yes, you can use driver packages for this - I've documented the process on the blog.

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    2. Gurpreet19 June 2014 at 04:55

      Thanks Gerry

      Quick One:

      What is major difference or benefits or drawback using SCCM vs MDT?

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    3. Gerry Hampson19 June 2014 at 08:21

      Have a look here

      http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/163/The-battle-begins-Building-the-perfect-reference-image-for-ConfigMgr-2012.aspx

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  87. Sunil11 June 2014 at 09:30

    Hi Gerry,
    Is it possible to use sql server 2014 to install sccm 2012 R2?

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    1. Gerry Hampson11 June 2014 at 12:56

      SQL Server 2014 is a supported database but there are a lot of gotchas. You have to upgrade from a previous SQL version - NOT a new install.

      See here:
      http://windowsitpro.com/configuration-manager/configmgr-2012-supported-sql-server-2014-only-if-you-upgrade

      The official TechNet library documents have been updated to reflect this.

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  88. JAPNET TECHNOLOGIES12 June 2014 at 13:53

    Hi Gerry

    Do you have any guide on SCCM un-installation and server clean up for fresh installation?

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  89. Bruno Caetano25 June 2014 at 10:39

    Hi Gerry

    I'm doing the deployment of an application that are taking too long to install what should I do to solve this problem

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    1. Gerry Hampson25 June 2014 at 13:37

      What does that mean? - "taking too long to install"

      Does it ever install or just fail?

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    2. Bruno Caetano7 July 2014 at 15:14

      Hi Gerry

      when I deploy a msi setup takes a long time to install in your.

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    3. Gerry Hampson24 July 2014 at 18:14

      Sorry for the late response Bruninho. I've been on vacation. You didn't say if this was a general problem or just a problem with one application. You need to analyse the log files on the client. How long does it take for the policy to be applied? Is the application actually installing but not reporting correctly?

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  90. Anonymous27 June 2014 at 10:45

    Great work Sir.
    Thanks for this tutorial.

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  91. Unknown1 July 2014 at 17:59

    Hi Gerry,

    I had a query regarding SCCM -2012. I work for an IT services company. I was told about SCCM and was asked to implement the same as part of the client's request. I went ahead in this process, and I have followed all the steps that are mentioned in your blog and i was able to set a system on which I have installed SCCM 2012 and have also created a device collection. Now I want to test whether I can achieve the purpose I set out with, i.e. I want to deploy an application to a remote system using the system where I have set up SCCM 2012. I followed the processes mechanically and now I do not know how to test whether what I have done works or not. Kindly help me out. I have the following queries:
    1. Can I connect any system remotely to the system which has my SCCM 2012 and try to run an application in that system? If so how do I do it? ( where does the concept of domain name come here?, should I change the DNS server name for this?)
    2. The second question is , I know it is trivial, but forgive me for this. What are the pre requisites that any remote system should have (in terms of software, settings etc etc) so that I can connect the system which has SCCM 2012 to it?


    Kindly reply. It would be of great help.

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    1. Gerry Hampson2 July 2014 at 08:09

      1. You need to follow all the blog posts for this - you need Discovery, Boundaries, Boundary Groups, Client Installation, Software Distribution etc. It's all here.
      2. Have a look at the official Microsoft documentation on TechNet Library. It shows the client prerequisites

      http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682077.aspx

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  92. Anonymous10 July 2014 at 20:33

    Awesome Blog Gerry, I was looking for something like this since very long time.

    Very Very helpful, thanks for sharing your knowledge

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  93. Bruno Caetano16 July 2014 at 10:27

    Hi Gerry

    I received this error SMS_SRS_REPORTING_POINT 7403, how to solved?

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    1. Gerry Hampson28 July 2014 at 08:28

      Sorry for the late response. I've been on vacation. What are you trying to do and where are you seeing this? Launch the SQL Reporting Configuration Wizard - is everything OK?

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  94. Bruno Caetano28 July 2014 at 19:29

    My SQL is fine, I dont see any error


    this constantly see this error more when I refresh turns green and then appears again

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    1. Gerry Hampson29 July 2014 at 08:29

      You're really not sharing much information Bruno.

      1. Where do you see the error - is it component status?
      2. Did you look at any of the detailed messages - what do they say?
      3. Are all the SQL services started?
      4. Can you browse to the reports (http://server/reports)?
      5. Do report actually work on ConfigMgr?

      Normally this error suggests a problem with SQL Reporting Services (possibly service stopped).

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  95. Bruno Caetano1 August 2014 at 12:04

    I visualize these errors in component status that are

    SMS_ SOFTWARE_METERING_PROCESSOR
    SMS_INVENTORY_DATA_LOADER
    SMS_AD_USER_DISCOVERY_AGENT
    SMS_AD_SYSTEM_DISCOVERY_AGENT

    this appears constantly

    I see no error in SQL SERVER

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  96. Unknown5 August 2014 at 14:34

    Hi,

    I have about 100 Laptops from Dell, all of them come with OEM windows licenses. I am wonder if I can activate each of their windows license by SCCM?

    Thank you!

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    1. Gerry Hampson5 August 2014 at 19:40

      Have a look at this Johnny. It explains how to get around this problem.

      http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/briefs/reimaging.aspx

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  97. Unknown11 August 2014 at 14:53

    Hi,

    I am wonder if there have section teach how to create and deploy GPT disk with Windows 8.1? I have tried the method on Part 8 - 11. It work on NTFS disk, but not on GPT. Please advise.

    Thank you!

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  98. Unknown21 August 2014 at 21:02

    Hi Gerry , Nice to meet here ,, I hope your doing good ,
    Need some settings here
    i have done Lab setup in my pc ,
    i need some steps to add devices and push clients to systems and install clients

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  99. Unknown22 August 2014 at 15:23

    Gerry, long time reader, first time poster :)

    Have you used an Auto logon Task Sequence before? I've seen several examples but not complete ones like your blog posts. We are looking for one specifically for Windows 7 x64 if you have seen or done one before. Thanks!

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    1. Gerry Hampson22 August 2014 at 17:05

      It isn't something I would use regularly. It does present some challenges all right.

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    2. Gerry Hampson22 August 2014 at 17:07

      Niall Brady has a good example here

      http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1543-how-can-i-capture-windows-7/

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  100. Bruno Caetano2 September 2014 at 08:27

    Hi Gerry

    Need help just installed the new sccm 2012 r2 and I need to enable reporting service, so I can not what should I do?

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    1. Gerry Hampson2 September 2014 at 15:54

      Part 14 of my guide describes reporting.

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    2. Gerry Hampson2 September 2014 at 15:54

      http://www.gerryhampsoncm.blogspot.ie/2013/03/sccm-2012-sp1-step-by-step-guide-part_19.html

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    3. Bruno Caetano5 September 2014 at 16:46

      Thanks for help

      Need more information, need download for this update SQL, which one should I choose

      2012_RTM_SNAC_CU2_2703275_11_0_2325_x64

      2012_RTM_PPExcel_CU2_2703275_11_0_2325_x64

      SQLServer2012_RTM_CU2_2703275_11_0_2325_x64

      2012_RTM_DAC_CU2_2703275_11_0_2325_x64

      best regards,

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    4. Gerry Hampson11 September 2014 at 12:55

      Sorry for the late response Bruno. I presume you figured this out.

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  101. Bruno Caetano25 September 2014 at 11:18

    Hi Gerry

    so far have not activated my metering software what to do?

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  102. AB1 October 2014 at 07:27

    Hi... im planning to implement OOB... kindly tell me that do i also need to have my MP and DPs running in https mode in order to implement the OOB functionality... ??? right now i have site running in http mode and i know that 4 certificates needs to be created for OOB service point and Clients i.e.

    1. A provisioning certificate that is installed on the out of band service point, which allows computers to be configured for out of band management.

    2. A web server certificate that is installed on the enrollment point for secured communication with the out of band service point during the provisioning process.

    3. A web server certificate that is installed on each computer that is managed out of band so that communication is authenticated and is encrypted by using Transport Layer Security (TLS).

    4. Client certificates, if required for 802.1X authentication

    Please confirm if anything else needs to be done.

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    1. Gerry Hampson6 October 2014 at 12:18

      Out of Band management is not one of the popular ConfigMgr features and I have limited experience with it. Have a look at the official documentation which should get you started.

      http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg682076.aspx

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  103. Anonymous15 October 2014 at 07:27

    Hey,

    I'am planning to reinstall sccm 2012 r2. Now I have SCCM 2012 R2 on W2008 SP2 OS and some functions didn't work, so I need to change OS to W2012 R2.
    Can I simple unninstall old sccm 2012 r2 then power off server and install fresh new OS w2012 r2 and fresh new sccm 2012 r2 on new server?
    Or there is some requirements for reinstalling sccm ? Thanks

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    1. Gerry Hampson16 October 2014 at 13:04

      I would recommend that you backup SCCM before you rebuild the server. Then you can restore your site when you re-install.

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  104. Anonymous20 October 2014 at 06:55

    Hi Gerry,

    Do you have any step by step doc available for Publishing SCCM 2012 R2 over internet. I am planning to Publish my SCCM 2012 server over internet to manage client from Internet and Intranet both.

    Thanks,

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  105. Anonymous21 October 2014 at 06:51

    Hi Gerry, I have two questions. The first question is how do I configure a task to auto login a PC as an admin after an OS deployment? Is there a way to create a task to log off a user and login as another user? Thanks you for your help.

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    1. Gerry Hampson22 October 2014 at 08:16

      Niall Brady has a lot of information on this:

      http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1543-how-can-i-capture-windows-7/

      http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2804-setting-up-autologin-at-the-end-of-sccm-osd/

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  106. Anonymous14 November 2014 at 17:47

    Hello,

    Do you have the SCCM instructions in pdf format?

    thank you

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  107. Unknown11 December 2014 at 13:37

    HI,

    Thanks fro your post, its really nice one.

    Regards,
    Srinivas.

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  108. Anonymous15 December 2014 at 19:46

    Gerry,

    Do you have anything you can post on connecting MAC systems to SCCM using IBCM Server?

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    1. Gerry Hampson15 December 2014 at 21:21

      Sorry I don't usually support MACs. There is plenty of information in the official documentation though

      http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj591553.aspx

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  109. Bruno Caetano17 December 2014 at 09:03

    Hi Gerry,

    I'm getting this error:

    Application Web Service Control Manager detected AWEBSVC is not responding to HTTP requests. The http error is 12002.

    Possible cause: IIS service is not responding.
    Solution: Manually restart the W3SVC service on the AWEBSVC.

    For more information, refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base article 838891.

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    1. Gerry Hampson17 December 2014 at 17:32

      Have a look at the awebsctl.log file Bruno

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    2. Bruno Caetano19 December 2014 at 11:19

      Call to HttpSendRequestSync failed for port 80 with status code 404, text: Not Found $$<12-18-2014 15:03:40.222-60>
      AWEBSVCs http check returned hr=0, bFailed=1 $$<12-18-2014 15:03:40.222-60>
      AWEBSVC's previous status was 4 (0 = Online, 1 = Failed, 4 = Undefined) $$<12-18-2014 15:03:40.223-60>
      Health check request failed, status code is 404, 'Not Found'. $$<12-18-2014 15:03:40.223-60>
      STATMSG: ID=8100 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_AWEBSVC_CONTROL_MANAGER" SYS=SRVCCMDB SITE=P01 PID=2432 TID=3356 GMTDATE=Thu Dec 18 14:03:40.223 2014 ISTR0="404" ISTR1="Not Found" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=0 $$<12-18-2014 15:03:40.224-60>
      Completed the AWEBSVC availability check against local computer. $$<12-18-2014 15:03:40.275-60>
      Waiting for changes for 60 minutes $$<12-18-2014 15:03:40.276-60>
      SMS_EXECUTIVE signalled SMS_AWEBSVC_CONTROL_MANAGER to stop. $$<12-18-2014 15:24:33.523-60>
      Shutting Down... $$<12-18-2014 15:24:34.258-60>

      currently can not do deployment to the machines

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    3. Gerry Hampson19 December 2014 at 12:36

      Have a look at this SCCM Product Team blog Bruno

      http://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/archive/2013/01/22/support-tip-installing-the-configuration-manager-application-catalog-on-a-custom-website-fails-with-status-code-404.aspx

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    4. Bruno Caetano22 December 2014 at 15:00

      Hi Gerry,

      Thank'll check

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  110. Unknown14 January 2015 at 11:51

    Hi Gerry,

    I like to know, How much time required to get client get reflected in configmgr console. when a PC configured with the Site code.

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    1. Gerry Hampson16 January 2015 at 17:18

      It really depends on your environment but clients should report their status to the ConfgMgr console shortly after the client is installed.

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  111. Unknown24 January 2015 at 14:15

    Hi Gerry,
    i have sccm 2012 sp1. my default boot images disappeared when i imported a new boot image. i tried to add them from the \\servername\sms_abc\osd\boot\i386 and x64 but keeps on failing. the add boot image wizard completed with errors. i have also tried it with adk 8 and 8.1

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    1. Gerry Hampson26 January 2015 at 13:21

      I've never seen that happen Mohi. See here for the correct process to add new boot images

      http://www.gerryhampsoncm.blogspot.ie/2014/02/configmgr-2012-create-new-boot-images.html

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  112. Microsoft CRM Kansas City6 February 2015 at 19:25

    This guideline of ConfigMgr 2012 really helpful for those clients and beginners too, which have less knowledge of configuring data. They are always trying to take outsourcing services from other companies at their fixed prices.

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  113. Stephen12 February 2015 at 15:44

    Hi Gerry,

    Any ideas on below?

    I've had a problem deploying SCEP from SCCM 2012 to a test collection of 3 machines.
    I was getting below errors:

    component SMS_MP_CONTROL_MANAGER MP Control Manager detected management point is not responding to HTTP requests.
    The HTTP status code and text is 500, Internal Server Error.

    component SMS_MULTICAST_SERVICE_POINT MCS Control Manager detected MCS is not responding to HTTP requests. The http error is 500 Internal Server Error.

    I resolved the above errors by removing Site Managment Role and un-installing IIS Role.
    I then re-installed IIS and added the Site Managment Role in Configuration Manager. This stopped the errors but now SCEP is getting deployed to All systems. Is there a way i can stop this deployment to all systems i was only planning to deploy to test collection to test first.I dont know where it has come from?

    thanks

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    1. Gerry Hampson12 February 2015 at 17:51

      Have a look at your Client Settings policies > Endpoint Protection tab. You should create a new custom client settings policy and enable "Manage Endpoint Protection". Then you deploy this policy to your test collection. If you enable this on the default client settings it will apply to all clients.

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  114. Stephen12 February 2015 at 21:54

    Thanks for the reply Gerry.I have a new Policy assigned to test collection which is fine but Yes "Manage Endpoint Protection" was enabled on the default client settings policy. I didn't realise enabling on default policy would automatically apply it to all clients without deploying to a collection. Many Thanks for pointing that out. Your guides are great. Thank you

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  115. Stephen13 February 2015 at 13:16

    Hi Gerry 1 more Ques if you have time to reply. Would re-installing IIS & re installing Managment Point that i had done for trying to resolve issues deploying SCEP client now cause me problems Deploying OS images(They were working fine before i had problems with Scep). PXE boot clients are getting no Boot Filename Received? thanks

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    1. Gerry Hampson19 February 2015 at 09:36

      It certainly could Stephen. I would suggest disabling and re-enabling PXE on the DP. This will involve multiple reboots as WDS will uninstall and re-install automatically.

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  116. Anonymous29 April 2015 at 15:59

    Hi Gerry, thank you for your guide. It was very helpfull for us to put SCCM on ! Few times we think to the stop the deployment but we find strenght in your guide to continue... We will always be grateful to you, if one day you come to France, tell us !

    Thanks from France !!
    Vincent Timètre

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    1. Gerry Hampson30 April 2015 at 12:56

      Thanks Vincent. You're quite welcome. Glad to help.

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  117. Salman Aslam11 June 2015 at 07:17

    Hi Gerry,

    I have been following your blog more than a year. Currently i'm facing an issue. Could you pelase advice.

    Issue: When attempting to deploy a Task Sequence via SCCM 2012 OSD (Using bootable media), the Task Sequence fails almost immediately after it boots into WinPE with the following error message:

    An error occurred while retrieving policy for this computer (0x80004005). For more information, please contact your system administrator or helpdesk operator.

    The client was able to PXE boot and run WINPE environment, once the client had initialised and it queried the SCCM server for the Task Sequence (s) the client generated the Failed to get Client Idenity error.

    It was working fine prevoulsy and i have deployed OS on many PCs. It hapened suudenly on all new PCs.

    Examining the SMSTS.log shows the following error message:
    Failed to Get Client Identity (80004005)

    Also,i have performed the below tasks:
    - Able to ping SCCM Host IP Address & DNS Record from client.
    - Changed the Date & Time in the client BIOS.
    - Enabled DHCP Option 66 set

    Still not resolved. Do i need to do anything with Management Point, IIS or anything else..

    Higlhy appreciated your advice.
    Salman Aslam

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    1. Gerry Hampson12 June 2015 at 16:01

      Have a look in Monitoring > System Status > Site System. Are there any errors? Review the messages.

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  118. Chris Gayle23 July 2015 at 14:02

    Hi Gerry im pretty new to sccm and have a question if I may? how do I create a a USB Task Sequence created from a Standard PC Task Sequence already in sccm 2012?

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    1. Gerry Hampson24 July 2015 at 11:44

      Right click the word Task Sequence in the console and choose "Create Task Sequence Media". Select "Stand-alone media".

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  119. Unknown2 September 2015 at 15:24

    Hi Gerry,

    Do you have documentation on HTTPS mode?

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    1. Gerry Hampson3 September 2015 at 09:39

      Your question is way too general Parvinder. What are you trying to do?

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  120. SEO Outsourcing Services Firm India7 September 2015 at 19:10

    I love to read these kind of useful and helpful technical contents. If you don't mind then can we share this with my community members so they can learn about SCCM techniques too.

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  121. Unknown25 September 2015 at 20:26

    Hi Gerry, Thanks for this wonderful blog, I just want to ask 1 Question.
    Which is the best and more accurate way to get the status of deployment Reporting or Deployment is Monitoring Tab ?

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  122. Gerry Hampson26 September 2015 at 16:17

    Both are useful. You can get more detail in the reports.

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  123. Anonymous26 October 2015 at 20:58

    Hi Gerry,

    I have an existing installation of SCCM 2012 R2, and we are looking to completely rebuild, because we are having a lot of issues with things like software deployment and getting the MDT integration to work for UEFI imaging.

    How would you suggest doing this? I was thinking of simply building a whole new Hierarchy from scratch, but then I am not sure how all of my clients would be reconfigured to point to the new one.

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  124. Gerry Hampson28 October 2015 at 20:30

    You didn't say how big your environment was. You could rebuild everything and re-install your clients - no problem.

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    1. Jordan Martens29 October 2015 at 16:24

      Sorry, I should have been more specific. I work for a mid sized College with one main campus and 5 remote campuses. we have around 1500 clients, so reinstalling them all is something I am trying to avoid. I have one Primary site server with 5 secondary site systems in each region.

      I am ready to click the "Install" button on the new Primary Site server, but I am not 100% sure how my clients will behave once I have 2 separate standing hierarchies on the network.
      Can the clients be switched over with something as simple as a GPO to change the Site code?

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    2. Gerry Hampson31 October 2015 at 08:49

      That's not a huge number of clients so you could safely reinstall them. However you can actually use a script to change the site code. Make sure the new site is at the same SP or CU level as the old one.

      Steve Thompson has a good script here

      https://stevethompsonmvp.wordpress.com/2014/03/29/script-to-change-assigned-site-code/

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  125. Ravindra Pawar29 October 2015 at 16:06

    it will be very great help if you please share the resource in PDF format for offline use.

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    1. Gerry Hampson29 October 2015 at 18:33

      Sorry Ravindra. I don't have the posts in PDF format. I wrote them all online.

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  126. Unknown21 January 2016 at 15:25

    i love this blog so much , thanks all

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    1. Gerry Hampson21 January 2016 at 16:11

      Happy to be of assistance.

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    2. Anonymous21 February 2016 at 06:45

      i want to know what kind of risk in system center configuration manager?

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  127. Anonymous3 February 2016 at 21:01

    can you upgrade the server hosting sccm 2012 r2 from windows server 2008 r2 to windows 2012 r2? will you be publishing a post for this process?

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  128. Unknown4 February 2016 at 14:42

    Hi Gerry,

    We have 1 forest with a root domain called XYZ.local. In this domain we have a Primary Site server with all the necessary roles installed. Joined to this domain we have 4 child domains:

    abc.XYZ.local
    def.XYZ.local
    ghi.XYZ.local
    jkl.XYZ.local

    We want to manage all our clients, approximately 1200 servers and workstations with our Primary Site server from the root domain.

    Is there any work in Active directory I have to do in the child domains? Is it necessary to add a system management container also in the child domains?

    In SCCM, do I have to add the child domains as Active Directory Forests like I did with the rootdomain? Till now, I didn't and when I do an Active Directory Discovery I get the following error on every child domain in ADForestDisc.log:

    ERROR: [ForestDiscoveryAgent]: Failed to connect to forest abc.XYZ.local. This can be because of disjoint DNS namespaces, network connectivity or server availibility issue. Error Information The specified forest does not exist or cannot be contacted.

    I hope you can point me in the right direction.

    Thank you in advance!

    Fabian

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  129. Lar Shar Kyi22 March 2016 at 05:46

    How can I get of device id for installapplication(String Applicationid,String deviceid,String reserved).Thanks.

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  130. John19 April 2016 at 22:51

    Good Day
    I am trying to Capture an Image from a reference computer and I am getting an error that says "Task Sequence error Image Capture Wizard has failed with the error code (0x00004005). I am trying to capture the image off a Lenovo T460s thinkpad that has been upgraded from windows 7 to windows 10 on the internet. I have not joined this pc to our domain. The capture media iso was developed on SCCM2012. Any Ideas?

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  131. Unknown5 May 2016 at 12:58

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  132. Joy Lederer12 May 2016 at 16:14

    Hi, I have the following issue:
    I deploy a task sequence to a workstation, once completed, we run the ccmsetup command to name the computer. The populates in SCCM's 'all systems', but after that I can't re-deploy another task sequence ... why?

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  133. Unknown8 July 2016 at 05:31

    Hi Gerry,
    Very nice to be in you block and could you please help me to resolve the issue in WSUS through SCCM2012 Environment, the log is copied below and if the issue is caused by the WSUS version kindly send me the wsus 3.0 SP1 link or 4.0 Link for server 2012 data center

    ?<07-08-2016 08:33:37> ======== Installing Pre Reqs for Role SMSWSUS ========
    ?<07-08-2016 08:33:37> Found 1 Pre Reqs for Role SMSWSUS
    ?<07-08-2016 08:33:37> Pre Req SqlNativeClient found.
    ?<07-08-2016 08:33:37> SqlNativeClient already installed (Product Code: {C79A7EAB-9D6F-4072-8A6D-F8F54957CD93}). Would not install again.
    ?<07-08-2016 08:33:37> Pre Req SqlNativeClient is already installed. Skipping it.
    ?<07-08-2016 08:33:37> ======== Completed Installation of Pre Reqs for Role SMSWSUS ========
    ?<07-08-2016 08:33:37> Installing the SMSWSUS
    ?<07-08-2016 08:33:37> Supported WSUS Server version is not installed. Please install WSUS 3.0 SP1 Server or above.
    ?<07-08-2016 08:33:37> Installation Failed. Error Code: 136
    ?<07-08-2016 08:33:37> ~RoleSetup().
    ?<07-08-2016 09:33:44> ====================================================================
    ?<07-08-2016 09:33:44> SMSWSUS Setup Started....
    ?<07-08-2016 09:33:44> Parameters: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\bin\x64\rolesetup.exe /install /siteserver:SCCM2012 SMSWSUS 0
    ?<07-08-2016 09:33:44> Installing Pre Reqs for SMSWSUS
    ?<07-08-2016 09:33:44> ======== Installing Pre Reqs for Role SMSWSUS ========
    ?<07-08-2016 09:33:44> Found 1 Pre Reqs for Role SMSWSUS
    ?<07-08-2016 09:33:44> Pre Req SqlNativeClient found.
    ?<07-08-2016 09:33:44> SqlNativeClient already installed (Product Code: {C79A7EAB-9D6F-4072-8A6D-F8F54957CD93}). Would not install again.
    ?<07-08-2016 09:33:44> Pre Req SqlNativeClient is already installed. Skipping it.
    ?<07-08-2016 09:33:44> ======== Completed Installation of Pre Reqs for Role SMSWSUS ========
    ?<07-08-2016 09:33:44> Installing the SMSWSUS
    ?<07-08-2016 09:33:44> Supported WSUS Server version is not installed. Please install WSUS 3.0 SP1 Server or above.
    ?<07-08-2016 09:33:44> Installation Failed. Error Code: 136
    ?<07-08-2016 09:33:44> ~RoleSetup().

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