Author: Eswar Koneti

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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Brief information about proxy MP before we jump into the subject. Proxy Management Point(On Secondary Site) used mainly to avoid the excessive bandwidth usage over Slow Network links between clients located in the boundaries of a secondary site By Default,Proxy management Point and Distribution Point role will be enabled and installed with secondary site. More information about Proxy Management Point,read Technet and msdn blog The concept of Boundaries are changed in SCCM 2012 comparing with its previous version SCCM 2007.You should configure the Boundaries and Boundary group correctly .To know more ,refer Jason Blog explaining about Secondary Site and boundary…

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This is the last post for this year and it has been really a busy year with configuration manager 2012 migration activities 😉 and some cool products from Microsoft. To kick off the new year, I’d like to share with you data on my blog’s activity in 2013 how did blog went with posts,number of visitors and some interesting count. I would like to thank you for reading the blogs on www.eskonr.com and supporting me in writing. Statistics for the Year 2011 Statistics for the Year 2012 Crunchy numbers: This blog was viewed about 270,000 times in 2013 ,compared to…

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