[Install Config Manager]

Did you actually set their rights up inside the ConfigMan console or just on the server?

[creating task sequence media: can't find Distribution Point]

If the permissions are not correct and you do not have the rights to create task sequence media you will not see the dp's

[Collection Maintenance Windows]

you just add another MW to the collection just like you did the first one. There is no special trick.

[Going from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2012]

Doing back ups and then restores on the new server is the easiest way to go about things. You are just creating more work for yourself trying to build another site side by side

[Disabling Administrator..... creating new?]

if you have orchestrator just do it with a quick runbook

[WSUS dosn`t work]

what ports are you using?

[Upgrade from Server2012 to 2012R2 on production SCCM 2012 server]

Nope your right nothing has changed still not supported. Back up / Restore is still the way to do it.

[SCCM 2012 Task sequence question]

You can easily do that with a run book. Pretty much anything that you are manually doing in active direcrtory you can automate with orchestrator.

[Remote Control in console via FQDN]

you can launch the Remote Control Viewer from start menu and then choose option from pull down menu to Connect using once of the following; NetBIOS, FQDN, IP address.

[Client not assigned after OSD]

The step of the task sequence where you are installing the SCCM client are you providing the site code or atleast setting to to auto?

[Configure Business Hours for clients]

Here is a post i put up about applying the business hours with a power shell command.

 

http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/8413-sccm-2012-business-hours/

[Application Catalog]

In the setting for your SCCM client did you check the box to install silverlight? Many admins to not check that box because they do not want the security vulnerabilities that come along with installing silverlight. However it is needed for the App Catalog.

[So many errors post-SP1 - should I just trash SCCM and start from scratch?]

are you building your images from .wim or from source files?

[OSD Task Sequence Fails "An error occurred while retrieving policy for this computer"]

have you cleared out the pxe advertisements for that machine?

[How can I pause a task sequence in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager ?]

This is by far one of the best ways I have seen to troubleshoot a TS instead of sitting and waiting for the part where you think the issue is and looking through logs waiting for the error.

[Some applications not copying to second DP (SCCM 2012 SP1)]

in your distmgr.log are you only seeing attempts to your primary dist point and none to your secondary point?

[Identical TS works as a stand alone task but not as part of OSD]

for the task sequence that is running out of OSD not a stand alone TS is the bat file on the distribution point?

[how can I install SCCM 2007 in Windows Server 2008]

I have had that issue before with corrupt media. Have you tried redownloading the software?

[SCCM 2012 Business Hours]

I have had a few clients that have had the request of having multiple business hours for differnt sites or departments for one reason for another. When you have alot of machines its not the best idea to just bounce to each machine and set the hours so I stumbled upon this and it has been a life saver.

 

Go to Asset Compliance > Configuration Items and right click to create a new configuraton item.

 

 

You create a discovery script to get your current settings:

$cmClientUserSettings = [WmiClass]"\\.\ROOT\ccm\ClientSDK:CCM_ClientUXSettings"
$businessHours = $cmClientUserSettings.GetBusinessHours()
$businessHoursCI = [string]$businessHours.StartTime + "," + [string]$businessHours.EndTime + "," + [string]$businessHours.WorkingDays
Return $businessHoursCI

 

It will return a value like 7,19,62 for 7 am to 7pm Monday-Friday all you would do to modify that is use the script below and the chart to add up the days.

 

Sunday 1 Monday 2 Tuesday 4 Wednesday 8 Thursday 16 Friday 32 Saturday 64

 

So if you would want Sunday - Saturday it would be 127 then 5am to 7 pm you would just modify the script to look like it does below.

 

 

You create a remediation script to set new business hours:

$startTime = 5
$endTime = 19
$workingDays = 127
$cmClientUserSettings = [WmiClass]"\\.\ROOT\ccm\ClientSDK:CCM_ClientUXSettings"
$businessHours = $cmClientUserSettings.PSBase.GetMethodParameters("SetBusinessHours")
$businessHours.StartTime = $StartTime
$businessHours.EndTime = $EndTime
$businessHours.WorkingDays = $WorkingDays

Try {
$result = $cmClientUserSettings.PSBase.InvokeMethod("SetBusinessHours", $businessHours, $Null)
If ($result.ReturnValue -eq 0 ) {
"Success."
}
Else {
"Failed to set SCCM client business hours."
}
}
Catch {
"Failed to set SCCM client business hours."
}

 

You can then deploy that to every machine or if you would like to have multiple business hours you would make multiple configuration items then just deploy them to seperate collections. This has come in handy for me being able to set multiple business hours across a company, I hope somebody else finds it useful.

 

Bryan

 

[SCCM Client Installs but fails to find advertisements]

Hey guys,

 

Windows 2008 r2 x64 / SCCM 2007 SP2 R2

Clients are Windows 7 x86

 

When our SCCM client installs on a machine after it is imaged it finds the site code right away but run advertised programs can take hours to populate.

 

in execmgr.log i see these errors as soon as the client installs.

 

Failed to instantiate UI Server {C2F23AE4-82D8-456F-A4AF-A2655D8CA726} with error 80004005
Failed to instantiate UI Server 2 {E8425D59-451B-4978-A2AB-641470EB7C02} with error 80004005
Failed to instantiate Updates UI Server {2D023958-73D0-4542-8AD6-9A507364F70E} with error 80004005
Failed to instantiate VApp UI Server {00AAB372-0D6D-4976-B5F5-9BC7605E30BB} with error 0x80004005

 

Hours later the machine will finally start pulling down the advertisements and run advertised programs is populated.

 

If anybody has seen this before or has any idea let me know i'd greatly appreciate it.

 

Thanks

BC