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…
Author: Eswar Koneti
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…
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 having issues ,so thought of checking/troubleshoot this issue on the Primary site itself . Browse through the wuahandler.log from Drive:\Configmr\SMS_CCM\Logs,below is what I can see. OnSearchComplete - Failed to end search job. Error = 0x80244022. Scan failed with error = 0x80244022. To know the…
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 manager 2012.This report will list down all active patches which are deployed during last 30 days .I have used the criteria to filter the days using patch released date(DateCreated). SQL Code Used in SSRS Report: select UI.Title, UI.BulletinID,CS.NumPresent as Installed,CS.NumMissing as Missing,CS.NumFailed [Failed], CS.NumNotApplicable as…
This is updated post for long ago blogged post http://eskonr.com/2010/04/sccm-reportcollection-for-computers-with-internet-explorer-with-different-versions/. are you in search of getting summary of IE Versions ,so that you can plan for the migration of Old IE Versions to current version ? Below is the SSRS/SQL report which will help you to get count of IE Versions and total. SQL Query used in Report(if you are still running on SCCM 2007): select replace(left(SF.FileVersion,2), '.','') as 'IE Version', Count (Distinct SF.ResourceID) as 'Total' From dbo.v_GS_SoftwareFile SF Where SF.FileName = 'iexplore.exe' and SF.FilePath like '%Internet Explorer%' Group by replace(left(SF.FileVersion,2), '.','') Order by 2 desc Note:Replace the quotes with…
In my previous blog post,i discussed about how to compare 2 distribution points to see if they both have any applications mismatch or not.This blog post talks about how to distribute the missing applications to the Distribution Point/s. I have used basic inbuilt Configmgr PowerShell commands for this activity,to know more about avilable powershell cmdlets in Configmgr,read here Before you get started with powershell,you need to Get a list of missing applications,packages,drivers,Boot images ,OS images etc using SQL query /other method which you aware,if you would like to use SQL method,refer my previous blog post http://eskonr.com/2012/09/sccm-report-compare-packages-on-2-dps/ . Export the results into CSV file…
Cumulative Update (CU) 4 which replaces Cumulative Update 3 for Configuration manager 2012 SP1 is now available that describes the issues that are fixed and the functionality updated. CU4 addresses the below issues that are fixed: Software distribution Operating System Deployment Administrative console Application Virtualization Endpoint Protection Site Server For all the details and a download link ,refer http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2922875 Restart Information: You do not have to restart the computer after you apply this update. Note :It is recommend to close the Configuration Manager Administrator Console before you install this update.
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 unable to download the content Via IIS with error code:500 which tells you that,something went Wrong with IIS. Logged into the server ,open IIS manager(inetmgr),tried to browse SMS_DP_SMSPKG$ share using http://localhost:80/SMS_DP_SMSPKG$/pkglib Physical path Drive:\sccmcontentlib is set correctly .what could be the issue ? Before…