are you looking for smsts.log file while running SCCM OSD Task sequence. smsts.log file will move on to different places when OS is deploying depending on the progress of the build and the architecture of the OS:.it cont sit in one place 🙂 Below lists the location of smsts.log while deploying the OS*: -->Windows PE…

Today,I come across several advertisement status message IDs for a particular advertisement which can be viewed under system status--->advertisement status. I,Thought of sharing the excel sheet with you about all the advertisement status message ID’s with its description along with. This might be helpful in creating reports or collections with status message ID’s. Download the…
SCCM Client installation Troubleshooting steps Check list

Seen Lot of questions/help in many forums on the SCCM client issues like client is not reported in SCCM console ,site code unsuccessful, Client is installed but Console shows NO and other problems. Thought of preparing  basic check list that will help configmgr guys to start troubleshooting the issue and fix the problem. Here is the…

This article describes how to troubleshoot Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Advanced Client and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Client installation issues when you use the Client Push installation method. There are some issues that can potentially occur when you deploy a client by using the Advanced Client Push install method. This article…

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Configuration Manager doesn’t locate the Database after upgrading the SQL 2005 to SQL 2008

Though this process looks easy but havent had a chance to use this.Recently ,i have upgraded my SQL server 2005 to SQL server 2008.There are different ways that you can do this like taking backup of SQL server 2005 ,uninstall 2005 later install 2008 and restore backed up database.I just simply ran the upgrade advisor to…

There are many tools like SMS /SCCM or scripting to get list of applications installed on computers(you dont use SMS/SCCM only for this kind of information 🙂 ) but what if the clients are not reported back to site server for some other reason and there could lot of applications installed on computers then you will start troubleshooting the…