Author: Eswar Koneti

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…

When you install the Distribution Point role from Configmgr 2012 primary site,it automatically install +Configure IIS ,WDS for you .Later,you can configure the WDS settings to support for unknown computers etc. Recently,i had issue with unknown/Known clients that,they get IP address from DHCP ,prompts to press F12 , try to connect to WDS server but immediately start giving \boot\BCD error. The below picture shows that,Configmgr 2012 is not responding to clients after Client try to connect to WDS. Upon this error,we straight away check if boot images are available on the DP or not,check the remoteinstall folder on the DP…

Quick post on the Distribution Point availability Error.Primary Site cannot check the availability of the Remote Distribution Point servers and Sitestat.log generating error messages continuously for DP servers “omGetServerRoleAvailabilityState could not read from the registry on CMDP01.eskonr.com; error = 6:” “Failed to get the Availability State on server CMDP01.eskonr.com for role SMS Distribution Point.” How to Fix this ? Create a DWord Registry key with name ‘Availability State’ and value=0 on the problem DP servers. Path to create DW Registry name and value: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Operations Management\SMS Server Role\SMS Distribution Point After sometime, site server polls the Remote DP servers,it will…

Long Ago, I posted blog on “How do i know what packages are transferring from specific site to Distribution Points and what is the % of content left and completed using tool called sender analyzer ,More info here . Sender Analyzer basically analyses the sender.log for the Site you connect from the Tool and DPJobmgr.exe basically analyzes pkgxfermgr.log on the Site that you connect,I think this tool can be called as ‘package transfer analyzer’ tool Due to the changes in Configmgr 2012,the above tool no more support and haven't see any other tool that gets the similar information. Configmgr 2012…

Microsoft released System center 2012 R2 Configuration manager tool kit which contains fifteen downloadable tools to help you manage and troubleshoot Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager both clients and server. List of tools available after you install the Configmgr 2012 R2 tool kit are listed below: Note:* mark represents the the tool is new in R2 and its requires Configmgr 2012 R2 for full functionality.   Client Based Tools: Client Spy - A tool that helps you troubleshoot issues related to software distribution, inventory, and software metering on System Center 2012 Configuration Manager clients. Configuration Manager Trace Log…

Quick post on the Boundaries and its assigned Site Servers which are nothing but Distribution Points.Simply creating boundaries does not make clients to get connected to DP and download the content. you will have create assign these boundaries to boundary group and boundary group to Site+Content location. Here is report to list all Boundaries and its connected Distribution Points. Note: Boundary Name is nothing but Description what you gave. I have uploaded the .RDL ile onto TechNet gallery.Download it from here.

Update: This post is updated after the Configmgr 2012 R2 CU1 hotfix released as this fix will resolve the subject line Issue. I recently had interesting issue with Configmgr 2012 SP1 CU3 client.Many Optional applications in Software Center changes to 4/10/1998 for  ‘Available After’ This issue was posted on several forums but there is no solution yet why is this happening. After working with Microsoft,found the root cause but no permanent solution ,instead we have temporary workaround to fix this issue. Issue: Applications appear as Old date(1998) in Software Center for ‘Available After’ which is unclear to end users about…

In my previous blog post,i talked about how to compare 2 distribution points to see if they both have any applications mismatch.This blog post talks about how to distribute the missing apps to the Distribution Point. I have used basic inbuilt Configmgr powershell commands for this activity,more via here Note:Use the package names as input file rather Package ID’s. Below powershell script works for applications,packages,driver packages,boot images and OS images.You need to remove the # tag(to uncomment) to distribute specific package type. #change the path of psd1 import-module F:\sccm\AdminConsole\bin\ConfigurationManager.psd1 #Change the site Code cd P01: $SiteCode = "P01" #provide the…