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this is a DC i've checked and some w2k8 servers (both DCs) have this ability and some don't, i havnt figured out what needs to be installed to make the change, i thought it was the WDS service but it seems not.... time to investigate

i've checked two windows 2008 servers one which doesnt have WDS installed, one with it installed. the one with it installed shows me the option to manage i'm not sure if this is the way forward with this but if you can test it by installing wds then i'd like to know cheers anyweb

create a GPO to uninstall the configmgr client agent it should run ccmsetup /uninstall wait a few minutes before pushing out the new version (no need to reboot) cheers anyweb

it appears to be happening right after its looking for drivers... so if you have lots of drivers in your task sequence remove them all and try adding them back one by one

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the first sync takes time, you need to be patient you can verify the syncs progress by looking at your SMS_WSUS_SYNC_MANAGER logs (in your sites system status/site status/component status)

keep it up ! moved to reports and pinned

on the virtual machine make the nic the first boot device, works the same way as a normal machine cheers anyweb

excellent guide, well done and thank you what I'd like to see next is a guide for restoring a site from scratch using the backup files created using the backup feature in Tasks,

if you find that Advertised Applications are not appearing in Run Advertised Programs on your client, then verify that the computers client is picked up by your SCCM server, open the collection that the computer is a member of, click on Update collection Membership, then refresh the collection If the Client=No then you may have client issues, check the following logs for problems on the Client. Clients won't get any advertisements in the target collection until the collection reflects the fact that the systems are installed as clients (Client = Yes). First, verify that the SMS Agent Host service is installed and running. If it is, the Advanced Client really is installed. If it doesn’t show up in the All Systems collection, it might be either that the client is not assigned to a site or that the client cannot find the default management point in its assigned site. You can use the Advanced tab of the Systems Management program in Control Panel to verify that the client is assigned to a site. If not, you can configure the site code the client should be assigned to. If it is assigned to a site, view the LocationServices.log on the client (Windows\System32\CCM\Logs) to see if the client was able to retrieve the default management point for the assigned site. It may be that the management point installation failed due to lack of IIS or BITS services being installed prior to the management point role being assigned to the computer. ClientLocation.log to ensure that they are assigned to a site LocationServices.log to verify that they have found the default MP ClientIDManagerStartup.log to verify that they've registered with the site Ccmexec.log to verify that there are no HTTP errors if all of the above are ok then consider uninstalling and reinstalling the CCMclient to uninstall it open a cmd prompt with administrative privaledges and navigate to c:\windows\ccmsetup ccmsetup.exe /uninstall Once done, verify it is gone in control panel, wait a few minutes then reinstall it by pushing it via ConfigMgr console. cheers anyweb

the right click tools now support 64 bit ! download from here > http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/arch...ls-updated.aspx cheers anyweb

have you read this post yet ?

i must apologise but there were still problems with this, it seems that some mail receivers were automatically deleting the validation mail because it had a return path of nobody@... I've corrected that now *hopefully* so registering should work properly now apologies again cheers anyweb

cool, but do you need anything installed on the client first like the SCCM Remote Tools

done, i've added a section called reports under SMS/SCCM 2007 cheers anyweb

hi all over the last week emails (including validation and other) were not sending correctly, basically they were going to localhost and no further I have now fixed this problem and it's working now, apologies for any problems this may have caused ! cheers anyweb

great post, pinned ! keep it up

great post, thanks for sharing !

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the error message means it cannot locate the actual update file from the path you have provided, so are you telling the update process to grab its updates from another WSUS server and path ? or is your SCCM server hosting the wsus sup ? i need to know more about how you are doing this before understanding the reason you are seeing the error

is the SUP role installed and configured on your SCCM server ?

ok finally i understand your problem..... is this XP machine definetly joined to the domain, which domain is it joined to (2k3 or 2k8) ? cheers anyweb

ok i see it, so are you saying that you create a task in there as a gp, role it out and it doesnt happen on the XP box ? or am I misunderstanding you ?

which GP is it, i've had a quick look on my 2008 dc here and i dont see the one you are referring to...

Note: this works for me, your mileage may vary, it's worth a try, let me know if it helps. if you've just started testing with SCCM you'll no doubt see this when imaging a client over and over, after you image the computer you cannot image it again until you right click on the computer in SCCM and choose 'clear last PXE advertisement' when you do that, you should be able to image the computer again, which is great when you are testing clients over and over to get your Task Sequence working... however, after doing this a few times it no longer works, the clear last PXE advertisement no longer works and when you PXE boot the client you still see the abortpxe message Downloaded WDSNBP Architecture: x64 The details below show the information relating to the PXE boot request for this computer. Please provide these details to your Windows Deployment Services Administrator so that this request can be approved. Pending Request ID: 45 Contacting Server: 192.168.3.1. TFTP Download: smsboot\x64\abortpxe.com PXE Boot aborted. Booting to next device... Those lines above have added to my grey hair content many times as I would try all sort of things to resolve this including 1. deleting the advertisement and re-advertising it 2. restarting WDS and DHCP service 3. restarting SCCM server 4. all of the above and then some.... until finally I tried the following method which appears to work just fine, Step 1.Add a rule Add a direct membership rule on the collection you are deploying to by right clicking on it and choose properties. click on the Membership Rules tab click on the blue computer icon to create a direct membership rule when the wizard appears click next change the drop down menus so they are like this Resource Class: System Resource Attribute name: Name *you can choose Netbios Name also* enter your computername that you want to remove the abortpxe.com feature from in lowercase or use wildcards eg: dell% click next and leave the collection blank, click next again and here's the fun part !!! look at the list, theres TWO of the computers with the same name... select them both *or only one if one appears* and click next click finish and then click ok at this screen Step 2. Refresh the collection Refresh the collection by selecting it and hitting F5 you should now see more than one of your original computers listed with the same name... Step 3. You are done ! That's it, your advertisement will begin working again now as now SCCM 'sees' the computer again. If you want you can delete the obsolete computers listed, it really doesn't matter if you leave them there or delete them. that's it abortpxe.com is kaboof ! related reading > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steverac/archive/2013/10/03/delete-behavior-for-devices-in-configmgr-2012.aspx