Tag: troubleshooting
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SCCM Right click script to get current IP Addresses.. because you know DNS
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Slow Software Center search results
Currently Software Center will use WMI to query all available software for the computer, then it will ask the management point for user assigned apps. If your computer is a bit slow/old the wait time checking WMI can be painful. You can check this on the client log SCNotify_DOMAIN@%username%_1.log Please vote for my Uservoice -…
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Apply Operating System: Download() failed. 80072efe
If you get this error try adding this command line to your task sequence cmd.exe /c Wpeutil disablefirewall let me know if this workaround helps.
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Task Sequence can’t find a dependency that doesn’t exit
When I see ‘Failed to run Task Sequence – This task sequence cannot be run because the program files for XXXXXXX cannot be locataed on a distribution point’ I go to Monitoring \ Distribution Status \ Content Status. It’s the quickest way to search all package objects. Today the search came up with no results.…
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SCCM client = None after deploying an operating system
In an environment where you use certificates this can happen. CLientIDManagerStartup.log will mention Regtask: Failed to refresh MP. Error: 0x80004005 alot of times… Below I have the 2 fixes! Fix 1 is to take advantage of the TS Variable SMSTSPostAction to restart the computer once completed with the value ‘shutdown /r /t 0 /f’ This should ensure…
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Setting the Client Status Settings for Client Activity based on AD logon
SCCM will mark a computer inactive if none of the activity checks happen Client policy request Heartbeat discovery Hardware Inventory Software Inventory Status messages sent See technet The default settings are 7 days for each of these settings which can be fine for a lot of businesses. If there are many devices that don’t often…
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Monitoring your fleets event logs – Part 2
Install Splunk – It’s free! https://www.splunk.com/en_us/download/splunk-enterprise.html Modify Program Files\Splunk\etc\system\local\inputs.conf Add the lines [WinEventLog] evt_resolve_ad_obj = 1 Then we need to reboot splunk, in Splunk click Settings, then Server controls and click Restart Splunk Next we need to add our data source, click Add Data from the launch screen, then monitor Choose Local Events then ForwardedEvents and…
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Monitoring your fleets event logs – Part 1
Windows has an amazing feature that let’s you collect logs from remote computers, it’s called Windows Event forwarding and is pretty easy to set up. Once we have this data we can use free tools such as Splunk or GrayLog to analyse the data, find patterns, fix. Below is the way to get started collecting…
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MDT Toolkit files fail to download – could not resolve source
If this happens during OSD, it is likely due to 2 settings in the BIOS. I recommend WIN7 – Boot mode: Legacy Sata mode: AHCI Win10- Boot mode: UEFI Sata mode: AHCI From the log: The task sequence execution engine failed executing the action (Use Toolkit Package) in the group (Initialization) with…
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Build and Capture fails if KB3160005 IE sec cumulative update is installed
Update: Adding more scratch space to the boot wim seems to have resolved the problem on Windows 10, Windows 7 seems to still have issues. Update: This update is also in Windows 10 CU 3163018, causing the same error. No workaround yet If your build and capture is failing at the capture step make sure you don’t…