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Hi all, We have a DPM 2010 Installation and would like to use this to backup Exchange 2003 Does anyone know if DPM creates a local cache on the exchange servers? We don't have much free disk space left at the minute but would like to start using it today Thanks

how did you create a collection to add machines not in another collection? This is just what I need to setup on our server Thanks!!

Hi, Can someome please help me with a query. I have a new collection (called MS Project REMOVAL) which I want populating with the following: any machine in sccm (so look in all systems collection) with the following They are not in the AD group 'MS Project' (or SCCM collection MS Project which is the same thing) The machine name is like 'WSTN-' or 'LPTP-' This is so once I remove a computer from the AD group MS Project (which removes it from the Project collection) is goes into the removal collection. This collection has an advertisement which uninstalls MS Project. Thanks!!

oops, serves me right for being so impatient Just refreshed the configmgr console and the computer objects have appeared :-)

Hi all, Here's a good question for the experts, is it possible to use a query based collection where the query is pointing to an AD group. This AD group contains another group which actually has the computer objects? example AD Security Group (FireFox Browser) Security Group (Sales PCs) The Firefox group has a membership of the sales PC group. What I want to do is create a query collection pointing to the firefox group but when populated it displays the PCs in the sales group. The reason for this is that I am advertising the installation of firefox to the firefox collection. Obviously this is associated to the firefox ad group. What I don't want to do is put the computer objects directly into the firefox group. I'd much rather keep the groups we have (sales pcs, managers pcs) which contain the computer objects and link those groups to the firefox one. Hope that makes sense. Possible? Thanks!!!

ah, we are using Enterprise, anyway around the bitlocker issue?

Help :-) ...again We have, for the past few months been using SCCM to deploy Windows XP. Took us hours of work and scripting but we finally got there in the end. Now we are testing Windows 7. The build and capture task is hitting a VM so we can get our gold wim image created. The weird issue we have is that once Windows 7 is installed it's on D: not C: TS has been set to format disk 0 and windows should install to the first partition, then I even tried assigning a drive letter. any ideas? Thanks

Hi all, Strange one.... I have purposly created an empty driver package to test out a theory. In my TS I only have apply driver package which is the empty one. During the windows install I get the error 0x80004005 (this is why I am testing out my theory) which means the driver catalog is too big. Strange as the driver package is empty....anyway, pressing F8 and checking the C:\DRIVERS folder shows up 120 folders containing loads of drivers for various models of machines. How can this be? where is it getting all those drivers from. Surely C:\DRIVERS should be empty. Thanks!!

Thanks!! The HP software sounds good. ok, so I have downloaded SSM and the Softpaq manager. Shares have been created and the softpaq manager has downloaded all the drivers for the 4530s. Now when I run ssm.exe \\server\share /accept from within the TS I get the error "oledlg.exe is missing" any ideas? Thanks

Argh! The boss is giving us till the end of next week before pulling our SCCM project! Hope not as we've spent months getting it this far but he's not happy with all the problems with it. Today we took delivery of yet another model of laptop from HP. This one is an HP4530s. We have the previous HP4520s working great through SCCM (well, not great obviously but it's good enough for us). I have downloaded all the drivers from the HPs site but when I try to import them SCCM tells me they are already in the database. Fair enough, the specs must be the same as the previous model so one less thing for me to worry about. Oh hang a sec, no they are not the same. I know the NIC in the 4530 is slightly different than the 4520 as I had to inject yet another NIC driver into the boot wim for PXE. Mmmmmmm, so if the NICs are different, perhaps other hardware in the laptop are different. How can I tell SCCM just to add all the drivers I tell it to, wether they are already in the database or not? Why can't I just create a new folder called HP 4520s and put all the drivers in there and then another folder called 4530 and put all the drivers in that one. so then....if the drivers are already in the database how come NONE of the drivers are working through the OSD task? The 4530 is using the same task sequence as the 4520 where we have set 'Auto Apply Drivers' and selected use drivers from any category. I thought perhaps creating a driver package and using that would help....nope, can't even do that. When I create a new driver package it's all great until I start adding drivers to it lol The error comes up 'some packages cannot be updated, please check the logs'. Would be nice to have a link to which log I should be looking at. I'd really rather not use a driver package, much happier using the auto apply driver task and let it do a pnp scan and pick what it needs. Last time I made a driver package for an HP laptop I got an out of memory error. Seems the driver package was too big for the registry limit or something. Not surprising with 300mb bluetooth drivers!!!! go figure. /rant Grrr!!!

ok thanks very much for that question though, why isn't the machine being deleted from the database anyway?

Not sure if this is the best way around this problem but I created a SQL task to run this command delete from v_R_System where ResourceID = EnterIDHere Set the time for 1 minute in the future and hey presto the machine has actually gone. Must just be an issue with our server as to why it takes a long time for the database to sync with configmgr

Hi all, ARGH! SCCM 'could' be so good if it wasn't for the little niggles. There is a machine on our network which won't PXE boot. We had the TS assigned to two collections. 'Unknown computers' and 'Windows XP Deployment'. So long as I can get the machine to PXE boot I'm not bothered. The machine was in the all systems collection so I have deleted it. Then I tried booting the machine up thinking it would be detected as an unknown computer.....nope Then I tried putting the machine name and MAC into a txt file and loading this into the Windows XP Deployment collection.....nope. The reason is that although I have deleted it from the all systems collection it is still being picked up when I go to the queries > all systems. I've just rebooted the server in the hope that syncs everything with the database but after the reboot it's still the same. How to I delete this machine? Grrrrrrr! Thanks!

Thanks andy, tried all that but failed Thanks Lucid, SCCM can't automate certain software packages via OSD so this is the only way via scripts on the desktop

Hi all, We have another site containing 5 machines. These 5 machines need office 2003 upgrading to 2007. Already have the package done and dusted but can't get any kind of branch distribution point / server share thingy setup. I have added a new server share and pointed to the c:\smspkgc$ share on the remote server. This share has both share and ntfs set for everyone/full. Soon as I get it working I'll start restricting it. If I just do a straight windows copy from sscm server > remote server it works fine so it's not a permissions issue. Can't understand why SCCM can't do a simple copy LOL The distribution point appears on my office 2007 package and I have gone to copy package wizard. Unfortunately nothing is getting copied across. Thanks for your help!! ERROR ====== SMS Distribution Manager failed to process package "Office 2007 SP2" (package ID = LIN0007A). Possible cause: Distribution manager does not have access to either the package source directory or the distribution point. Solution: Verify that distribution manager can access the package source directory/distribution point. Possible cause: The package source directory contains files with long file names and the total length of the path exceeds the maximum length supported by the operating system. Solution: Reduce the number of folders defined for the package, shorten the filename, or consider bundling the files using a compression utility. Possible cause: There is not enough disk space available on the site server computer or the distribution point. Solution: Verify that there is enough free disk space available on the site server computer and on the distribution point. Possible cause: The package source directory contains files that might be in use by an active process. Solution: Close any processes that maybe using files in the source directory. If this failure persists, create an alternate copy of the source directory and update the package source to point to it.

Yeah, we had the same issue. Wifi Audio Biometric reader Shock Management Thing Download all four from HP and extract with winrar into their own seperate folders. Then put them all into a software package. Tomorrow when I'm back at work I'll post the scripts we used to get them all working. Basically they just won't work from the OSD but I managed to find a way around it. You add a task from the OSD TS to install the software package which is just a script which copies the four driver folders locally. Then you copy a script to the all users startup. Once the machine has been imaged and boots up it will run the script once to install all four drivers silently. This was the only way we could get everything working as it should. I'll post the scripts tomorrow.

certain drivers just don't work via the OSD TS. HP Laptops are a known pain with their drivers. Basically I would create a driver folder for the various machines and import the drivers into them. Then highlight them all within the desired folder and assign to a collection. Then in the OSD TS use the apply drivers rather than the driver pack and tick the approriate collection. This also saves disk space as you dont have to put the drivers into the DPs as packages. The drivers are available anyway so why use HDD space when you don't need it. This will get your machine imaged and once it's booted up check to see what's missing. You'll probably have the weird and wonderful ones. We had an HP ProBook 4520 which just wouldn't install certain drivers. We had to script the install after windows had booted. Worked great for us. You might find the drivers are actually applied but the device is still yellow in device manager. This is why sometimes you have to script it after the first boot. This way it saves you having to remove the device and doing a pnp scan.

Hi all, I have a .reg file which adds the autologin keys for admins. This is needed for after an OSD deployment as the machine has to auto login as the local admin to finish off certain scripts before going out to the end user. If manually run from the desktop the reg key works ok, but it doesn't work from within an OSD deployment. The actual package installs after after the first reboot windows attempts to autologin but fails. It's as if the password is incorrect but like I say it works fine if done manually. The file is... Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "AutoAdminLogon"="1" "DefaultUserName"="blah" "DefaultPassword"="blahpassword" I guess I'm going to have to somehow run another reg key to remove after the first reboot. Has anyone done something similar, and if so how? Thanks!!

Hi all, HELP!! Everything was working great until we did an R3 upgrade and endpoint installation. Now PXE boot won't work. No idea where I should be looking? The clients were working fine yesterday on SCCM 2007 SP2 but we did a straight upgrade to R3 (worked great) and then installed Endpoint 2010 (which also worked great). Thanks!!

Hi all, I've always assumed we'd been running R2 until I tried to add the reporting services role which was missing DOH! (just to let you know SCCM was installed prior to me starting with the company). I asked the guys which media cd they used and they gave me a geniune Microsoft DVD with SCCM 2007 R3 (Config Manager 2007 SP2) written on it. They couldn't tell me 100% that that was the disc they used so I decided to perform an upgrade anyway. It's all worked fine but when I look at the version it's the same as before!!!! ARGH! How on earth do I get R3 on as I need to get endpoint 2010 installed today and it won't work without the reporting services role (pre-req is R2/R3 for endpoint). Version from the console 4.00.6487.2000 R2 installed: No Build number: 6487 Thanks!!

Finally worked it out, the company have to use a funny domain naming scheme left over from some old NT4 days. I replaced the proper domain name for the NT4 one and it worked a treat

Does anyone know what exit code 1040 means? Typical Microsoft again!! We are getting this on client machines when running an adobe flash advertised package Thanks

Hi all, I have created a new AD security group (domain local) and put ten computers in it. We have enabled AD System Group, Security Group and Systems Discovery in SCCM and I have ticked the sync now button (or whatever its called). Then I created a new collection and set the following query on it select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System where SMS_R_System.SystemGroupName = "domain.ad\\Warehouse - Laptops" Unfortunately even after leaving it 24hrs, clicking on update collection members and refresh the collection remains empty any ideas? Thanks!!

Apolgies, my boss left out a crucial piece if information. We are infact moving to Endpoint 2010. Things are much clearer now!!

I'm getting nowhere fast here, the only articles I can find are how to install the .cab file within the desired configuration management section. I've already done that and have a nice pie chart showing me who is compliant and who isn't. How on earth do I configure things like the time clients do a virus scan, folders to exclude in the scan etc etc. We are trying to switch off our FCS server and run everything via SCCM. Thanks very much, I appreciate your help