Author: Eswar Koneti

since few weeks i was working on  troubleshooting the inventory data loader issues on the client computers .Sometimes I get red Alert on the configuration manager Site status node for sms_inventory_data_Loader component. If you look at the monitoring node--site status--component status.Right click and select show messages all ,look at the red alerts with description "SMS Inventory Data Loader failed to process the delta MIF file “Xr1i0uv7v.MIF” because the file does not have a corresponding discovery record. SMS Inventory Data Loader has moved this file to the Orphans directory as file "D:\SMS\inboxes\auth\dataldr.box\Deltamismatch\86rt11zz.MIF” and will retry processing it within 10 minutes.“ Take a…

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Today ,i updated my SCCM SP1 site server to SP2 .I have listed the actions that might be helpful in doing so .It is strongly recommened that ,test it in testing environment before taking it to the production. It is strongly recommended  to follow the check list from microsoft http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee344152.aspx ************************************************************************************************* Take backup of your Config mgr Install SCCM SP2 setup file and check the prerequisite components .if no major errors, then proceed to install SP2. Check the Configmgr setup log file to see the status of success. Once you finished installing SCCM SP2, the new WAIK version would be automatically installed on the site server.  It needs…

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this post is just to make the application deployment easier.when you deploy any application to a collection,you might see faliure,no status and waiting.I had similar issues(number count was more).This collection gives you list of systems with faliure/no status/waiting status for particular advertisement.if you need more ,just customise it. Collection: select sys.ResourceID,sys.ResourceType,sys.Name,sys.SMSUniqueIdentifier,sys.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,sys.Client from sms_r_system as sys inner join SMS_ClientAdvertisementStatus as offer on sys.ResourceID=offer.ResourceID  WHERE AdvertisementID = 'KBS20326' and (LastStateName = "Failed" or LastStateName='Waiting' or LastStateName='No status') and sys.Name like "US_%" Where KBS20326 is advertisement ID ,just replace it with your ID.once you are ready with this collection,you can simply advertise it and…

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How to change the Site Code of a SMS/SCCM client: The scripts which are listed here can run on local computer and remote computer.To get results from remote WMI repository,you should have sufficient permissions(local administrator) on the remote computer. here is a simple VB Script which will change the site code of SMS/SCCM client computer.You can run this script on on remote computers using pexec tool. Set smsClient = createObject("Microsoft.SMS.Client") smsClient.SetAssignedSite "C01", 0 Set smsClient = Nothing VB Script for list of applications (programs) installed on remote computer: strComputer = InputBox ("Enter Machine Name") Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application") objExcel.Visible =…

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i was doing OS refreshment with SCCM MDT and i have a TS that has all my configurations required.When it advertised on to the machine,it gets failed with error code 0x00002024.Looked in to the smsts.log file which is located in system32\ccm\logs\smsts.log found the errors like Failed to import the client certificate store (0x80092024) OSDSMPClient 04-01-2010 03:48:17 1856 (0x0740) ClientRequestToMP::DoRequest failed (0x80092024). OSDSMPClient 04-01-2010 03:48:17 ExecuteCaptureRequestMP failed (0x80092024). OSDSMPClient 04-01-2010 03:48:17 ExecuteCaptureRequest failed (0x80092024). OSDSMPClient 04-01-2010 03:48:17 Failed to run the action: Request State Store. Credit's goes to Anders Ahl for extensive troubleshooting and a new workaround. Workaround #1: Uninstall KB…

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when deplying image on to bare metal PC,sometimes it may require to get multiple partitions like C,D,E ect depends on the organization requirement.(Going down the route of making multiple partitions is like having multiple wives/girlfriends/lovers… it’s all fun and games for a while but ends with disaster). Here are simple steps that make simpler. 1.On your task sequence,get in to Preinstall->New computer only->formate and partition disk ,on the right pane click on star burst and select 2 volumes (with specific size for each partitions) and made both as primary .(in this case,u will get 2 partitions like C,E). if you need more partitions do as…

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