Are you Migrating your Existing SCCM /Configuration Manager Infrastructure to Configuration manager 2012 ,if so, You will have to look at your Packages whether they UNC path or Local Drive Path since Migration of Packages using Local Drive(Non UNC) can not done. Before you Migrate the Packages from CM07,you will have to ensure all of them are using UNC Path. How to Know which are Local Drive ? Here is Simple SQL query /SCCM report to know how many packages not using UNC Path. select PkgID,Name,Version,Language,Source from SMSPackages where Source not like '\\%' and Source not like '' Note:Please change…
Author: Eswar Koneti
Various tools,scripts are available to add,delete and refresh packages(Standard software Packages only) on the Distribution Points but i feel this is easy to compare with others what i have seen so far in Configuration Manager 2007. If you have single package to do any specific action like add,delete ,refresh ,you can do it Via Console but what if you build new site and you are required to add the bunch of packages in SCCM 2007,do it Via Console or Script based ? I will be using tool called dpmod written by Bernard White in a batch script with the help…
My Previous Blog post talks about How to know Client Cache folder size in your Environment using Custom MOF.What is you are deploying Larger packages or Your Cache size is full with applications and software updates ? By Default,Configuration Manager Client stores the Deployed packages (could be applications,Packages,Software updates etc) in C:\windows\SysWOW64\CCM\Cache (CM07) and C:\Windows\ccmcache(CM12). The Size of the Cache folder can be specified while installing SCCM Client using parameter SMSCACHESIZE .If you do not set this property while installing SCCM Client, the folder defaults to a maximum size of 5120 MB. The lowest value you can specify is 1…
By Default,Client Cache information is not collected by Configuration Manager.You should do some customizations to get it working. This blog post talks about how to create Custom MOF file and import into SCCM as custom hardware inventory class which will be applied onto clients as policy to get the information from WMI . Save the below code into file with file_name.mof. [ SMS_Report (TRUE), SMS_Group_Name ("SMS Advanced Client Cache"), SMS_Class_ID ("SMS_ADVANCED_CLIENT_CACHE"), Namespace ("\\\\\\\\.\\\\root\\\\ccm\\\\softmgmtagent") ] class CacheConfig : SMS_Class_Template { [ SMS_Report (TRUE), key ] String ConfigKey; [ SMS_Report (TRUE) ] Boolean InUse; [ SMS_Report (TRUE) ] String Location; [ SMS_Report…
Quick Update from Microsoft about System Center 2012 R2 Preview is available for Download from MSDN /Evaluation(below). This prerelease version is not supported in a production environment and is for testing only. This prerelease version does not support an upgrade from previous versions of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. Install this prerelease version as a new installation of Configuration Manager. In addition, Configuration Manager does not support the import of objects between different versions of Configuration Manager. To know more about Release notes and Known Issues with SCCM 2012 R2 Preview Release http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn236347.aspx I have just extracted all the direct download links…
I was trying to setup new Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 build on Windows server 2012 with SQL Server 2012 SP1 installed .Everything went fine except Windows server update services .It keeps saying error with restart needed.Here is what i got every time when i install WSUS after restart the server. Update: You can also refer the solution posted here : http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/04/15/installing-wsus-on-windows-server-2012.aspx The request to add or remove features on the specified server failed. the operation cannot be completed because the server that you specified requires a restart. Why does it fail every time though server is restarted several times after…
Recently i worked on issue with SCCM Client.Many applications are Advertised in Run Advertised programs as Optional(Optional can be set either not having mandatory schedule or allow users to run independently while creating Advertisement ). But none of the applications are running successfully from RAP .So verified CAS.log ,Datatransfer.log to see if any issues with content downloading to cache but they do work it. Next to look execmgr.log : From this log,what i noticed is ,Client is able to download the content and start the program command line but it failed with error message: CreateProcess or CreateProcessAsUser failed to execute…
SQL Code used in SCCM Reporting to get list of Advertisements that are Mandatory! select adv.AdvertisementName as [Adv Name], adv.PresentTime as DistributionDate, pkg.Name as PackageName, pgm.ProgramName, coll.Name as CollectioName, adv.AdvertisementID from v_Advertisement adv join v_Package pkg on adv.PackageID=pkg.PackageID join v_Program pgm on adv.PackageID=pgm.PackageID and adv.ProgramName=pgm.ProgramName join v_Collection coll on adv.CollectionID=coll.CollectionID join v_ClientAdvertisementStatus stat on adv.AdvertisementID=stat.AdvertisementID where (adv.AssignedScheduleEnabled != 0 or adv.AdvertFlags & 0X720 != 0) group by adv.AdvertisementID, adv.AdvertisementName, adv.PresentTime, pkg.Name, pgm.ProgramName, adv.SourceSite, coll.Name order by adv.AdvertisementName SQL Code used in SCCM reporting to get list of advertisements that are Optional. select adv.AdvertisementName as [Adv Name], adv.PresentTime as DistributionDate, pkg.Name…