Long Ago,wrote a powershell script to add packages,applications,driver packages,Boot Images etc to selected Distribution Points,more information http://eskonr.com/2014/02/configmgr-2012-updated-powershell-script-add-packages-applications-drivers-to-distribution-point/ As Configmgr admin,we will be doing some maintenance cleanup activities monthly or quarterly for applications,packages,drivers ,collection etc.I will write another post on ,how to identify the packages which are not used from longer period by Configmgr clients. Removing single package from console is straight forward .Right click on package and click delete.This process takes few steps asking to go through the prompt to answer or delete directly. I have collected several packages with different package types like applications,driver packages,SUP packages etc using the…
Author: Eswar Koneti
Updated: 03/Oct/2014 : Download the Updated version of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Servicing Extension Tool from microsoft.connect Microsoft released another Configuration manager extension tool called Service Extension (Beta) that provides useful information for maintaining a Configuration Manager environment. This tool provides the following benefits from Configmgr Admin Console (administration Pane): Notifies you of Configuration Manager updates as they become available, with the ability to filter updates according to which major release they apply to Provides details on the sites in your environment, including the last major Configuration Manager version installed and the most recently installed Cumulative Update Provides a list of…
few weeks Ago, Microsoft released Cumulative Update 2 (kb2970177) for Configuration manager 2012 R2 which supersedes previously released cumulative Update (1). This update fixes several issues ,supports to new platform for Unix/Linux and brings changes to Configmgr powershell cmd-lets as well. Download the Cumulative Update 2 from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2970177 Description of Windows PowerShell changes in CU2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2962855 About Cumulative Update documentation,refer http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553405.aspx The installation procedure is straight forward.You can refer my previous blog post ,where i showed how to Install Configmgr 2012 R2 CU1 http://eskonr.com/2014/03/how-to-install-configmgr-2012-r2-cu1-part-1/. In this post,I will show you how to create collections to bring the configmgr clients which…
Few weeks Ago, When Robert announced about his new product called LocationAware to control the selection of Management Points, I was elected as one of the beta tester to test the functionality of this product .After many modifications /revisions to the tool,the final product has come out and is available to order. There are certain times, we would tell to customer,that there is no way that you can control the clients to choose particular management point with today's product and customer would say ,ahh no,there should be way to do it .But now,with the release of Robert tool,you can say…
Had a problem with sccm 2012 client installation today,it keeps generating error code 1638 from ccmsetup.log . File C:\Windows\ccmsetup\{181D79D7-1115-4D96-8E9B-5833DF92FBB4}\client.msi installation failed. Error text: ExitCode: 1638 Use ctrl+L to find the error code description for 1638, it says “Another version of this product is already installed. Installation of this version cannot continue. To configure or remove the existing version of this product, use Add/Remove Programs on the Control Panel” I tried uninstalling the client using ccmsetup.exe /uninstall,also tried with ccmclean.exe before reinstalling client but that doesn't help. It seems like,the previously installed client was either partially installed and it cannot continue…
During month of March 2014,Microsoft released first Cumulative Update CU1 for Configmgr 2012 R2 and now ,Microsoft released 2nd Cumulative Update CU2 for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 with lot of fixes,powershell changes and some of them been modified. This Update (Cumulative Update 2) Replaces Cumulative Update 1 .If you have not installed R2 CU1 yet,you can directly go with Cumulative Update 2. Download the Cumulative Update 2 from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2970177 Description of Windows PowerShell changes in CU2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2962855 About Cumulative Update documentation,creation of collection ,refer http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553405.aspx You can apply this update to: Central Administrative site Primary Site(Stand Alone) Primary…
Its always painful to check via reports for specific application if an assigned application successfully installed for Computer or User ,especially for GSD/helpdesk guys as they are the first point of contact for basic troubleshooting and they cannot always browse to default reports for such information and there is no straight report to give this information. I have created 2 Reports 1 ) List all applications with status for specific Computer 2) List applications with status for Specific User. These 2 reports will help you to get quick information about specific application whether it is installed /requirements not met /error…
I think ,this post is going to be one of my Favorite on Configmgr 2012 SSRS report so far i created .Question from smsforum list asking,about if there is any pre-existing report that list all applications and its dependencies.There is none from the default reports(out of 400+) and not sure why Microsoft did not include this kind of report as part of default reports. If you want to know all dependencies for specific application,you can directly get this from Configmgr 2012 console by right click on the application and choose view relationships——dependency but how to get list of applications that…