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Wiki Page: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Survival Guide

Niall C. Brady

Introduction What is a survival guide? It’s a page we created as a pointer to information on the web. You can use the information below to learn the fundamentals and share information with other community members. And, if you think we missed some great article out there, please add it below! The...

on19 May 2013
Wiki Page: List of Public KB Articles and Hotfixes for Configuration Manager 2007 SP2

Trevor Sullivan

This is a list of System Center Configuration Manager public hotfixes and KB articles published/updated after Service Pack 2. Note: Some updates are required only under certain circumstances, please read hotfix description before installing one. KB Article...

on15 May 2013
Wiki Page: List of Public Microsoft Support Knowledge Base (KB) Articles for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr 2012)

Lijo George

This is a list of System Center Configuration Manager public KB articles and hotfixes published after the 2012 release. Note: Some updates are required only under certain circumstances, please read hotfix description before installing one. ID Title Hotfix 2683915 A secondary...

on11 May 2013
Wiki Page: Create System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Software Metering Rules with PowerShell

Richard Mueller

If you want to create many software Metering rules then you can use this code. This function uses CSV file to import data. Function Create-Rule { Param ( $strRuleFileLocation , $strComputer , $strSiteCode ) Try { #Check if file exists If ( Test-Path $strRuleFileLocation...

on9 May 2013
Wiki Page: ConfigMgr 2012 (beta2): Site Component Manager failed to install this component, because the Microsoft Installer File for this component (MP.msi) could not install.

Yagmoth555

Symptoms: Component: SMS_MP_CONTROL_MANAGER Message ID: 4951 Site Component Manager failed to install this component, because the Microsoft Installer File for this component (MP.msi) could not install. Refer to the MPSetup.log, the MPMSI.log, as well as the ConfigMgr Documentation and the...

on9 Apr 2013
Wiki Page: ConfigMgr 2012: Could Not Connect or Execute SQL Query

Yagmoth555

As you know, ConfigMgr 2012 is supported on a SQL named instance. However, in this scenario when you try to install a primary site that will be joined to a Central Administration Site (CAS), you can get the following errors : In ConfigMgrSetup.log : Cause: ConfigMgr 2012 requires SQL Server...

on9 Apr 2013
Wiki Page: Microsoft Anti-Virus Exclusion List

GoonCommando

One place on the web where you can find an updated list of ALL the AV exclusions you might want to configure for Windows Server. Feel free to add to the list, it is the wiki way! HINT : Subscribe to the RSS feed for this wiki page to get auto-notification when it is updated! Enterprise Configuration...

on21 Mar 2013
Wiki Page: SCCM - ConfigMgr - System Center Configuration Manager (es-ES)

Uriel Almendra

System Center Configuration Manager, proporciona un sitio centralizado que permite el control, inventario y reporte de un entorno IT. Con System Center Configuration Manager, el Administrador de un entorno IT puede gestionar y distribuir de manera efectiva aplicaciones e implantaciones de sistema...

on13 Mar 2013
Wiki Page: ConfigMgr (SCCM) – Software Distribution Notification Issues – How to use WBEMTEST to check client policies

Yagmoth555

Clients may not get “ New Program is Available ”pop-up system tray notifications in ConfigMgr even though the “ Display a Notification Message ”option is checked in the Admin Console. The “New Program notification” for clients is controlled by two Policy entries...

on23 Feb 2013
Wiki Page: ConfigMgr (SCCM) – Very Handy Report for Software Update (Patching) Client Health

Yagmoth555

Thought of sharing one of the very HANDY report which we use for client health with respect to patching or software update. All the credit goes to my colleague Neetu. This report will provide you below details SQL Statement SELECT v_R_System.Name0, v_R_System.Active0, v_R_System...

on22 Feb 2013
Wiki Page: Managing System Center Configuration Manager Clients in a Workgroup

Richard Mueller

When managing SMS or SCCM clients that are in a workgroup, clients will need access to a WINS server that contains the proper entries for the SMS/SCCM site systems. If a WINS is not available, as an alternative you can edit the LMHOSTS and HOSTS files on each client to allow for name resolution. ...

on22 Feb 2013
Wiki Page: ConfigMgr (SCCM) – Servers with Site System-Server Roles in a Particular ConfigMgr Hierarchy

Yagmoth555

I am very glad to share an Awesome report created by my colleagues Robert Spinelli and XiaoDong Zhang . Here is that pretty cool query/report that can help you in maintaining the inventory of SCCM hierarchy and also can be used as health check report. This report will provide you all the servers...

on21 Feb 2013
Wiki Page: ConfigMgr (SCCM) – Software Updates Related WMI Checks

Yagmoth555

To check the WSUS Server we scanned against 1. Connect to “Root\ccm\softwareupdates\WUAHandler” 2. Click on “Query” and paste the following query in the “query” windows and click on “Apply” select * from CCM_updatesource 3. Double click...

on21 Feb 2013
Wiki Page: ConfigMgr 2007: "A recoverable error has occurred. A retry attempt will be made. ccmsetup" (0x0C5C)

Yagmoth555

Last week when I tried to install the ConfigMgr 2007 client on a Windows Server 2008 SP2 x86 machine I’ve seen the following errors in ccmsetup.log. The client was not installed and the ccmsetup process was blocked. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------...

on20 Feb 2013
Wiki Page: ConfigMgr Scan failed with error = 0×80240438

Bechir Gharbi

If you use a Software update point for patch management, you might meet a scan problem when Forefront TMG (in my case) or another firewall is in place. Today, when I deployed a group of updates I’ve seen in the monitoring workspace that all target PCs are in the Unknown tab, so I’ve gone directly in...

on15 Feb 2013
Wiki Page: ConfigMgr (SCCM) EXE files and RUN Commands

Yagmoth555

Easy Access "Run" Commands for SCCM professionals Client ConfigMgr console Properties %windir%\System32\CCM\SMSCliUI.exe %windir%\SysWOW64\CCM\SMSCliUI.exe Run Advertised Program (x64 & x86) %windir%\System32\CCM\SMSRAP.CPL %windir%\SysWOW64\CCM\SMSRAP.CPL Task Sequence...

on8 Feb 2013
Wiki Page: ConfigMgr (SCCM)–How to find the list of Software Updates (patches) installed on Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 2008 systems

Yagmoth555

I’ve seen people requesting for reports of list of Software Updates (patches) installed on a system along with Installed date. ConfigMgr is not collecting the list of Software Updates (patches) for Window 7/Vista/ 2008/ 2008 Core operating systems. Because, on these operating systems this information...

on2 Feb 2013
Wiki Page: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Troubleshooting and Gotchas

Don - tesgroup

These are "known issues" that folks seem to have trouble with in Configuration Manager. Best Practice and Gotchas information has been moved to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Best Practices . Applies to: System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Table of Contents Troubleshooting...

on24 Nov 2012
Wiki Page: How to Configure Proxy Settings for Configuration Manager Primary Sites that Manage Cloud Services

Brent G. Dunsire -MSFT

Note: The following information is written for use with the new distribution point for Windows Azure in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1, but should be applicable to configuring proxy settings for the system account of any computer. With System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1, you...

on25 Sep 2012
Wiki Page: ConfigMgr (SCCM) - Skip Software Inventory

Anoop C Nair

Table of Contents Finding Possible Impacts Possible Cause Solution Recently, we have noticed that the size of BADSinv folder size is getting increased on all the child primary servers. We did some analysis and found that the same caused by software inventory enabled on DP drives on secondary servers...

on22 Aug 2012
Wiki Page: ConfigMgr (SCCM) 2012 – Starter Kit – Very Useful Links (Community Posts)

Anoop C Nair

Most of us are looking around to get more details about new features in ConfigMgr / SCCM 2012. To help yourself, I thought of collating some of very useful information about SCCM 2012. The post HERE will be Regularly updated !! Managing mobile devices in Configuration Manager 2012 via Exchange...

on22 Aug 2012
Wiki Page: 'Failed to insert OSD binaries into the WIM file' error when you create a MDT Task Sequence or MDT Boot Image in ConfigMgr 2012

Jochen.Reinecke

Issue: When you trying to create a boot image using MDT (or select the 'create a new boot image package' option in 'Create MDT Task Sequence' wizard) you get the following error: Started processing. Creating boot image. Copying WIM file. Mounting WIM file. WIM file mounted...

on10 Jul 2012
Wiki Page: Example WQL Queries for Configuration Manager

SaudM

This page is based on the example queries section in the How to Create Queries in Configuration Manager topic on TechNet. You can copy and paste these WQL queries, and edit if necessary, so you can use them in your own Configuration Manager hierarchy to run ad-hoc queries or create collections from them...

on29 Jun 2012
Wiki Page: ConfigMgr (SCCM) – Duplicate Record Issue

Anoop C Nair

I have seen lot of DUPLICATE record related issues faced by lot of people in the Forums. William Eriepa has explained the issue as below in the technet thread . Read Updated Post @ http://anoopcnair.com/2011/04/08/configmgr-sccm-duplicate-record-issue/ ISSUE (Credits to William Eriepa) ...

on26 Jun 2012
Wiki Page: ConfigMgr (SCCM) How to Increase WMI Default Memory Allocation

Anoop C Nair

WMI is an integral part of ConfigMgr (SCCM). Many SCCM issues could be directly linked with WMI. One such issue is when the following error is received: “The ConfigMgr Provider reported an error connecting to the ConfigMgr site database server”. This could be because the server doesn't...

on26 Jun 2012