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.
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…
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…
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…