Most awaited and First SCCM Configmgr 2012 R2 Cumulative Update 1 KB2938441 which was expected to be released in Q2 (as per the news from various forums) but Microsoft decided to release it early and here it is for you. There has been many DCR’s(Design Change Request) raised by several of Configmgr guys and my self raised support ticket with Microsoft about software center available date after showing old date(1998) ,more info here and Microsoft tried to resolve most of them in Cumulative Update 1. As this is the first Cumulative Update,it will not replace any other previous Update. so…
Author: Eswar Koneti
Content Prestage in Configmgr 2012 is a new/Updated feature from its previous Version Configmgr 2007(Preloading).Content Prestaging is mainly used for the sites which has Slow or costly network connectivity. When you are creating new site Distribution Point at remote location with Slow connectivity,you cannot distribute the missing packages due to bandwidth constraints.Configmgr 2012 allows you to create Prestage Content means,You can Export the content from One DP (Note: Only DPs under this particular Site could be Primary or Secondary will be listed but not from Other sites) ,copy to Disk,ship it and then import to the newly configured DP. To…
Few days back,I was working on Client health remediation issues.for this activity,I created some cool SSRS reports based on client health statistics,you can find them on the below link: http://eskonr.com/2014/05/sccm-configmgr-2012-ssrs-dashboard-client-health-summary-report/ With above report,found that ,Count of missing clients very few hundred which is 2% from total --not bad but still need to install the client on missing computers using different client installation methods like client push,logon script etc . Since i have few hundred computers,i would prefer to go with client push installation using clientpushgenerator tool. while troubleshooting the client installation ,I found many clients appearing twice --duplicate records,obsolete ,One…
Configmgr 2012 allow admins to specify the Client Settings at collection level to control the behavior and functionality of the clients. You can create as many number of Custom Client Device/User settings (9999) which you can apply onto collections(Device/User). What happens if client is member of multiple collections that have client settings ? All the Custom Client settings that you create are chosen with the priority. Higher the priority(1) will take over the settings with lower priority(10000). If you are going to have multiple client agent settings,focus attention else you will see undesired results. By Default,Configmgr will Configure default client…
If you are using User Device Affinity--associating a user with one or more specified devices for application deployment to make sure the application install on all devices that are associated with that user,it is necessary to identify the computers which do not have primary User Defined.More about User Define Affinity http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg699365.aspx. Create collection using below WQL query for list of computers with Primary Device is NULL.(Make sure you limit the collection to computers with Client installed and Active) else you will get all computers who do not have sccm client installed . WQL query uses wmi class (SMS_UserMachineRelationship) which store…
Recently there was a question asked in the forum about 'How to get list of applications ,packages assigned to specific collection with its deployment settings like user experience ,Deployment action like install or uninstall etc' . If you are in need of identifying the list of applications or packages deployed to specific collection with its deployment properties, this post is for you. To find list of applications with deployment type properties ,i looked at the default reports ,there isn't it any with this requirement,so started looking at my SCCM Configmgr SQL views documentation to find out the relevant SQL views…
While Upgrading Clients from Configmgr 2007 to Configmgr 2012,we see lot of issues with respect to client failure like client is installed with exit Code ‘0’ but software center do not work as intended,client is installed but no policies etc. I had interesting issue recently during the client up-gradation from CM07 to CM12.Client was installed successfully with Exit code ‘0’ from ccmsetup.log(%windir%\ccmsetup\logs) but software center doesn’t open. If I look at the properties of configuration manager applet,actions tab,I can see only 2 policies appearing(Machine and User) .locationservices.log and clientlocation.log,clientIDmanagerstartup.log show positive information,there are no errors but still unable to launch…
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 access network location %APPDATA%\. Could not access network location %APPDATA%\. From CCMSETUP.Log: while installing sccm client,It requires to access the environmental variable %APPDATA% from registry location which are are corrupted/Changed for several reasons . How do I Fix it ? There is fix available…