The easiest possible way to remove the sccm client is to run the command line ccmsetup.exe /uninstall from windows\ccmsetup folder. But what if ccmsetup.exe do not exists on some of the client machines and you would require to remove the client on them ? and if ccmsetup.exe does not work for you to remove the sccm client successfully ? Mike Griswold did a post on this how to do manual executions to remove sccm client without using ccmsetup.exe on the way at his customer place. So You can perform below steps to manually clean-up all the traces of the client.…
Author: Eswar Koneti
When i try to run SCCM Reporting Services Report,I get error always saying ‘Cannot create a connection to data source 'AutoGen__5C6358F2_4BB6_4a1b_A16E_8D96795D8602_'. I verified if the user has sufficient permissions to access the database (datasource) or not,User has enough permissions. Error Message: If you look at the above Screen shot,it says “You have specified integrated security or credentials in the connection string for the data source, but the data source is configured to use a different credential type. To use the values in the connection string, you must configure the unattended report processing account for the report server” I check…
To kick off the new year, I’d like to share with you data on my blog’s activity in 2012 how did blog went with posts,number of visitors and some interesting count. I would like to thank you for visiting ESKONR.COM reading blogs. Here are the statistics for the Year 2011 Crunchy numbers: About 55,000 tourists visit Liechtenstein every year. This blog was viewed about 190,000 times in 2012. If it were Liechtenstein, it would take about 3 years for that many people to see it. Your blog had more visits than a small country in Europe! In 2012, there were…
SCCM Configmgr 2012 SP1 is out now and available only for MSDN and TechNet subscribers for now.For General Availability,we may have to wait for couple of days or so. Johan updated the Hydration Kit to automate the installation of SCCM 2012 SP1 with One Domain Controller and Configmr 2012 SP1 Member server with all the required prerequisites. It took 3 hours of time to complete the setup on Johan Laptop.Installation time may vary on the resources what you have on your computer. For more information about Hydration Kit and download details http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/82/The-Hydration-Kit-for-ConfigMgr-2012-SP1-with-Windows-Server-2012-SQL-Server-2012-is-available-for-download.aspx
Various methods to get the Uninstallation String for particular application.You can go with MOF changes to get uninstall string from registry(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall ) using Mark regkeytomof or You can use BDNA Normalize. Now aDays ,most of the organizations are converting Applications to MSI with more customizations with unattended installation except some applications which has msi inbuild with EXE file using Packaging Tools. More info about Packaging stuff,you can get from ttp://www.itninja.com/ You can uninstall particular application if you have MSI ID or product ID using simple Command msiexec /x {ProductID} . If you have used MSI based application to install…
Installation of Secondary Site in Configmgr SCCM 2012 is not as simple as compared to SCCM 2007 due to several changes in SCCM Configmgr 2012 secondary site. Before you proceed to install the secondary site,you need to ensure all the prerequisites are met including SQL server installation,IIS etc else you may have to come back to finish all the required prereq. In My previous blog post here, i listed down the prerequisites to install secondary site. Below is little more descriptive: Install IIS, BITS, RDC,.net framework 3.5 Add Primary site computer Account and secondary site(which you are going to install…
Significant changes to Software Updates in Configuration manager 2012 compare with previous Version.One of the cool Feature is Automatic Deployment Rule which is Inhouse Feature of WSUS now incorporated into SCCM.To know more about what's new in SCCM 2012 Software Updates http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg699359.aspx Recently i was configuring ADR for windows 7 updates in lab to deploy automatically on workstation machines.All the configurations are done including SUP role,WSUS etc. After running the ADR, none of the patches are downloading except blank folders are created without any content. Watch the ruleengine.log ,Log is full with Red color. Failed to download the update from…
Finally 🙂 the most awaiting System center configuration manager(SCCM) 2012 SP1 RTM is now available for MSDN and TechNet Subscribers. For General Availability,we may have wait for some more days. If you have MSDN or TechNet Subscription,you can download the product from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/ms772428.aspx Couple of points to be noted : Upgrade from Sp1 Beta is only supported for TAP customers who installed RC.t Non-TAP customers will only be able to upgrade from DPM 2012 RTM (+ qfe’s) to DPM 2012 SP1 RTM. There is no upgrade path from BETA Sp1 to RTM Sp1, you must reinstall DPM 2012 RTM,…