Configmgr Client Error ccmsetup failed with Exit Code 1603 MSI Could not access network location %APPDATA%

Recently,I was troubleshooting configmgr 2012 client issue ,the installation keeps failing with error code :1603 (from ccmsetup.log) ,error says ,”Fatal error during installation”. in addition to this,I see something interesting about network access location %APPDATA%. MSI: Could not access network location %APPDATA%\. File C:\Windows\ccmsetup\{181D79D7-1115-4D96-8E9B-5833DF92FBB4}\client.msi installation failed. Error text: ExitCode: 1603 Action: CostFinalize. ErrorMessages: Could not…
Configmgr OnSearchComplete – Failed to end search job Error 0x80244022 WUAHandler.log

Recently,After the Path Tuesday, None of the clients which are reporting to Primary Site did not perform a successful Scan (clients beneath secondary Site are working Good) .This leads me to look at the software update logs on the client to see what is going wrong. Since most of the clients directly reporting to Primary are…
Configmgr SSRS Report Patch Compliance Statistics Last 30 days

Year ago,I created CM07 report to know the patch compliance stats for active patches last 30 days.More info can be found from here.But this report was for configuration manager 2007 which will not work with Configmgr 2012 due to the changes in storing the information in SQL tables/Views. I have created similar report for configuration…

couple of days ago,I have got request says, configmgr clients are failed to install the applications from software center on specific Site .This leads me to check the client logs. datatransferservice.log says,successfully sent location service HTTP Failure message, Error sending DAV Request.HTTP Code 500,Status ‘Internal server Error’. As you can see from below screen,client are…

When you install the Distribution Point role from Configmgr 2012 primary site,it automatically install +Configure IIS ,WDS for you .Later,you can configure the WDS settings to support for unknown computers etc. Recently,i had issue with unknown/Known clients that,they get IP address from DHCP ,prompts to press F12 , try to connect to WDS server but…

Quick post on the Distribution Point availability Error.Primary Site cannot check the availability of the Remote Distribution Point servers and Sitestat.log generating error messages continuously for DP servers “omGetServerRoleAvailabilityState could not read from the registry on CMDP01.eskonr.com; error = 6:” “Failed to get the Availability State on server CMDP01.eskonr.com for role SMS Distribution Point.” How…

Full details:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/82a7862a-fc1c-4c45-9635-ee44489c2673/file-inventory-report-query-by-name-count-and-machineid?forum=configmgrreporting   select cs.Name0 [Computer name],COUNT(*) as [No of Times] from v_GS_SoftwareFile SF,v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM cs where FileName like '%.mdf%' and SF.ResourceID=cs.ResourceID group by cs.Name0 order by 2 desc

We have been seeing many hotfixes and Cumulative updates for configmgr 2012 product .For each hotfix /CU level,the client version will get change. As you test and deploy these hotfixes /CU's in your environment ,you are also required to maintain the environment both clients and server client to the same level as your site running.…