Since few months ,Microsoft publishing some great guides (deep dive) on SCCM Configmgr understanding and troubleshooting process ,tips and tricks that will help Configmgr administrators in solving issues. It is really hard to find these useful links through search engines when needed for reference and to send it internally for the team to go through . I have tracked all the useful links in my OneNote and I have decided to let it go out for public incase for reference. This blog post will be updating now and then ,when there is new content available. 1. Understanding and Troubleshooting…
Author: Eswar Koneti
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Few days back ,I was helping friend of mine ,who had some issues with SCCM Client and he was unable to launch Software Center .When he try to open Software Center application,it immediately pop-up with error code as shown below . SCNotification has stopped working . The procedure entry point HttpsisHostHstsEnabled could not be located in the dynamic link library WININET.dll I tried launching event viewer ,MMC etc but unable to open any of them and all giving same error code as No storage available to perform this operation. I tried uninstalling SCCM Client, remove SMS certificates ,delete smscfg.ini…
Other day ,I have got a request to install/update VMware tools (32bit and 64bit) on servers that are running on VMware platform to latest version (as per the vsphere server version or what requester needs). VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machines guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. Without VMware Tools installed in your guest operating system, guest performance lacks important functionalities. To deploy VMware tools ,you can either use Legacy method called package or Application deployment method .If you go with package ,you will loose the control…
Working on setting up the new hierarchy for SCCM Configmgr Current Branch 1606. As part of installation process ,it ask for prerequisite downloads folder and for it ,I can either choose Download Required files (it will download from internet )or Use previously downloaded files (download the files on any machine that has internet access and copy the files to your SCCM server). I choose download required files from internet as my server is has internet access through proxy IP. After a while ,download of prereq’s failed ,which lead me to look at ConfigMgrSetup.log for the error details. Log (ConfigMgrSetup.log) …
Long ago ,I did step by step guide series on how to Install MBAM 2.5 SP1 integration with SCCM Configmgr 2012/Current Branch . In that guide,I have used MBAM server which has SQL server and MBAM components installed on local server and integrate MBAM with Configmgr 2012 server. Few days ago ,I was trying to install MBAM 2.5 SP1 and integrate with SCCM Configmgr Current Branch 1606 in my lab. In this setup ,my requirement was different .I do not want to install SQL Server on MBAM server (local) instead ,use existing SQL instance (remote) to install MBAM Databases and…
Great news for all us who are in SCCM Configmgr world. Microsoft just released 3 baseline builds for SCCM configmgr 1606 in October 2016 i.e Current branch ,LTSB and Tech review which means, you no longer need to use old baseline build V1511 to upgrade /Install your SCCM hierarchy from SCCM 2012 and install the Current branch updates using updates and servicing method. In previous days ,If you want to migrate /Install new version of SCCM Configmgr current branch (V1606 for now) ,you must use the baseline build V1511 with supported ADK version of V1507 or V1511 and then install…
Working on fine tuning collections to get the clients (DEV,UAT,PROD etc) from Active Directory based on OU for reporting purpose .Reporting can be either application deployment or software update compliance or anything that you want .In my case, all the OU’s in Active Directory are created based on BU( Business Unit) and business unit most likely with country name in OU. Lets take example of OU structure like below in my Active Directory. With the above OU structure ,I want to create collection that list all computers from PROD/DR OU for each Business Unit (Hong kong,Singapore,India etc) . Parent…
Recently I was going through some of the Microsoft Ignite 2016 sessions that are related to windows 10,Intune ,MBAM ,UE-V ,Power BI ,Server 2016 and configuration manager which are uploaded to YouTube. During my surfing ,I found lot of videos on these technologies . So ,in this blog post, I will share the sessions that are related to Configuration Manager ,Windows 10, Intune, MBAM ,UE-V and Power BI which will help you to go through and take notes for future reference. Hope you will find them useful too. Join Windows 10 in Azure AD in five easy steps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CorjRbc7ME Troubleshoot…