Category: SCCM 2012

Investigating SCCM Client Policy Request and Communication Status with a Collection Specific Report

Posted on October 15, 2022 by | 15 Comments | 13,330 Views
Introduction: As a SCCM Configmgr administrator, one of your key responsibilities is to ensure the health of SCCM clients for tasks like application deployment, software updates, and inventory management. Oftentimes, you may encounter situations where you need to identify computers that haven't contacted the server in a specific number of days or determine the clients…
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Update scan failed due to Group policy settings were overwritten by a higher authority

Posted on May 24, 2022 by | 0 Comments | 5,917 Views
Few years ago, I have blogged about the client update scan failure due to GPO’s. https://eskonr.com/2014/10/sccm-configmgr-2012-software-update-scan-error-group-policy-settings-were-overwritten-by-a-higher-authority-error-code-0x87d00692/ Introduction: When the software update point is configured for a site, client computers receive a machine policy that provides the active software update point server name (WSUS) and configures the Specify intranet Microsoft update service location local policy on…
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System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) Installation Error code 0x8004FF91

Posted on January 20, 2021 by | 1 Comment | 3,707 Views
I had provisioned a windows server 2012 R2 (Yes, it is 2012 R2) and while installing the SCEP client (System Center Endpoint Protection client installation files are picked from current branch 2010), it failed with the following error code. Setup - Cannot complete the System Center Endpoint Protection installation. An error has prevented the System…
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Managing windows updates using Configuration Manager and Group policy

Posted on December 17, 2020 by | 4 Comments | 22,522 Views
When a Configuration Manager client is installed and configured to use the software updates agent, it will automatically configured with a local Group Policy setting that specifies the Configuration Manager software update point. The Group Policy setting used is the intranet Microsoft update service location, specified as a Windows Update computer administrative template. The following…
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Microsoft MVP Award for 2020-2021 (4th Time)

Posted on July 2, 2020 by | 3 Comments | 480 Views
I am super excited and honored to receive an email from Microsoft about my MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) award renewal for the year 2020-2021 in Enterprise Mobility area . This is my 4th consecutive year MVP award (First year 2017) and glad that, I am still part of great MVP community for another year. Following is…
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SCCM remote control failed to do Handshake in Server. An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host Error 80072746

Posted on January 4, 2020 by | 0 Comments | 31,380 Views
You can use Configuration Manager remote control to remotely administer, provide assistance, or view any client computer in the hierarchy. You can use the remote control to troubleshoot hardware and software configuration problems on client computers and to provide support. Configuration Manager supports the remote control of all workgroup computers and domain-joined computers that run…
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