This blog post will help you to identify packages (count) for which there is no advertisement created and not used these packages in any task sequence.Once you have the packages ,you can further take action whether you really need these packages to exist in SCCM or cleanup to save disk space and avoid unused packages in sccm. SQL Query to run from SQL server management studio or use this to create report. select PackageType = Case Packagetype When 0 Then 'Software Distribution Package' When 3 Then 'Driver Package' When 4 Then 'Task Sequence Package' When 5 Then 'software Update Package'…
Author: Eswar Koneti
Recently encountered backup issue on one of the primary site server and backup never ends stuck at “info:starting asynchronous do snapshotset… ” though sms_site_backup service running and never(did not monitored for too longtime) ends until you stop it manually. Below is the snapshot captured when error occurred. Why does it hangs over there ? what are the causes ? Tried Restarting the sms_site_backup service but doesn’t fix the issue and log hangs with above message. So decided to restart the sccm server (caution in production server) and check if the sccm services are running or not like sms agent host…
Our engineering team has had an amazing journey this past year with two key releases to help our customers improve their capabilities for deploying Windows in their enterprises. As you know, we released Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 in April of this year to coincide with the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) and this enabled a lot of functionality asked for by you. These are outlined in this post I made back around this release and include an all-new extensible wizard, all-new rebuilt designer, and support for all the enterprise deployment scenarios. On the heels of the 2012 release, our team was…
System Center 2012 SP1 (currently in CTP2) includes the following update and enhancements to the following System Center 2012 components: Virtual Machine Manager Improved Support for Network Virtualization Extend the VMM console with Add-ins Support for Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Service, thin provisioning of logical units and discovery of SAS storage Ability to convert VHD to VHDX, use VHDX as base Operating System image Configuration Manager Support for Windows 8 Ability to deploy Windows 8 Apps Real-time administrative actions for Endpoint Protection related tasks Data Protection Manager Improved backup performance of Hyper-V…
Thought of sharing nice post on Task sequence replication issue to child site by Frank Rojas. Symptoms : When creating a new Task Sequence or updating an existing Task Sequence on a parent primary site in System Center Configuration Manager 2007, the Task Sequence may not replicate down to child primary sites. Packages and other Task Sequences replicate to the child primary site without issue. Examining the logs associated with site replication (despool.log, replmgr.log, sched.log, sender.log) on both the parent and child primary sites does not reveal any errors. However examining the distmgr.log on the child primary site reveals the…
In a Big environment to know/work based on regional wide kind of doing some maintenance tasks in SCCM ,this would would help you to get you the count of Child sites reporting to primary. select ReportingSiteCode ,COUNT(*) as [Child sites] from v_Site group by ReportingSiteCode order by ReportingSiteCode
The upcoming general availability of Windows 8 on Oct 26th and the launch of the new Windows App Store presents us all with the greatest Windows developer opportunities ever! Get ready by attending a Windows 8 Developer Camp! Developer Camps provide a great opportunity to jump start your development skills in a fun information-packed 1-day event that gives you all the tools, knowledge and guidance you need to get started. Windows 8 Developer Camps are coming soon to Detroit MI, Columbus OH and Austin TX ... Seating is very limited, so be sure to register today using the links below!…
Starting with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) has now been integrated into Configuration Manager and is called System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection. From your feedback, we have heard that some FEP customers who are now using System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection are having problems finding the information they need to install and configure Endpoint Protection. This blog post answers the questions we’ve been hearing about the documentation. A thank you to Diana Smith (a Microsoft Senior Support Escalation Engineer), for her help in working with us to get the right information to you. Where is the…