Today a customer ran into a problem with SCCM 2012 R2. Clients didn’t get online and packages didn’t get distributed. After some investigationn I found the following problem internal Server error. As you probably know SCCM 2012 clients use HTTP or HTTPS (internet, PKI) to communicate with the SCCM server.Read More →
While configuring a SCCM 2012 R2 server I noticed some Critical errors in the Site Status. After some investigating I found the problem how to fix this. You must add the SCCM service account and the computer account(s) to the local administrator group of the site server. Go to theRead More →
It’s easy to deploy the Microsoft Office Servicepack 2 with SCCM. Download Servicepack 2 (full install) and use the following switches : /quiet /passive /norestartRead More →
Sometimes you want to immediately deploy (install) a package and you don’t want to wait for the SCCM agent to start the task. They are multiple ways to do this, one of them is to use the tools described in my previous posts. The other way is to go theRead More →
Yesterday a customer asked me how to manually install the SCCM 2012 client. This is how you do that. Create a network connection to your SCMM Management Point server. For example net use q: \\SCCMSERVER\SMS_SITEIDNR. Go to the client directory and execute the following command : Replace sccm-mp withRead More →
In the past I used the SCCM Client Actions Tools (link) but there is now a new successor called PoshCAT by Kaido Jarvemets. I found this tool so useful I decided to write a blogpost about it. First : you can download the tool here. After starting the Powershell scriptRead More →
I’m running Altaro Hyper-V back-up for some time now. Approx 1 year ago I installed it on my Hyper-V server and it has been running all the time with no problems. It never missed a back-up and so I didn’t saw the need to update to other versions. Most ofRead More →
Hereby an overview of the Microsoft System Center Team Blogs : Service Manager http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager Operations Manager http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam Virtual Machine Manager http://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm Orchestrator http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator Data Protection Manager http://blogs.technet.com/b/dpm Configuration Manager (Engineering) http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/ Configuration Manager (Support) http://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/Read More →
Today I was installing SCOM 2012 on a Windows Server 2012 std server. This is how you easily install the necessary pre requisites for SCOM 2012 : Use servermanager to add .NET framework 3.5, then.. ..Launch PowerShell with administrative privileges. Run the following command : Import-Module ServerManager Followed by theRead More →
For your and mine convenience 🙂 here are the IE 9 download links : Internet Explorer 9 Language packs : here Internet Explorer 9 Administration kit : here Internet Explorer 9 exe all languages : here Internet Explorer 9 MSU versions : Vista x86: http://go.microsoft…./?LinkId=210146 x64: http://go.microsoft…./?LinkId=210144 Win7 x86: http://go.microsoft…./?LinkId=210145Read More →