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MRaybone

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  1. Hi guys, I'm going through the OS deployment guides, and I have all my task sequences, packages, boot images etc created and distributed. I have a Central site with several Primary Child sites. I've created everything using the Central site console, and sent them to a Distribution Point on one of the Primary Child sites. The problem I'm having is that when I boot off my media, the Task Sequence cannot run anything because everything is on the Primary Child's Distribution Point and the Computer Association I've made as part of the guide automatically defaulted to a site assignment to the Central site, which naturally doesn't have anything to distribute. I'm guessing I can connect to the Primary Child's database and put in the Computer Association from there, but that's awkward, time consuming and very messy, not to mention the headache it just caused me due to replication. Any ideas?
  2. Hmm does the 2nd option (Bootable Media) still utilise PXE? We will have network access, just not PXE boot...
  3. Ok brilliant! I started reading your Deploy 7 giude, which referred me back a couple of guides so I'm going through the Vista ones - I take it I can pretty much just ignore all the PXE related stuff and just shoe-horn in the boot media stuff when required?
  4. Hi guys, We already have a PXE system in place on our corp environment, so can't use SCCM's PXE role. Can all the OSD stuff be done without using PXE? Is there a boot CD alternative or something similar? Cheers, MRaybone.
  5. Hi all, I've recently been looking at fixing 100 or so of my clients which are showing up as being Not Approved. I've come across a few which show as Approved on the child site, but on the parent site at the top of the hierarchy, the same clients show as Not Approved...?
  6. Is updating a Depoyment Package as simple as manually removing the updates, and selecting new ones from a search folder/Update List and adding them to the existing Deployment Package?
  7. I've had a few people in the business request lists of security patches to be installed, and have noticed that some of them are not appearing under Software Distribution in the SCCM console. I thought nothing of it - they probably expired or got superseded. Anyway, this annoying Windows Update Browser Choice update (KB976002) just came into play. I noticed that even after a synchronisation, it is not appearing as an update in the SCCM console. I've made sure all relevant catagories and products are selected. So this is making me think, what else is missing from the Update Repository...? Any ideas?
  8. Does anyone know if it's possible to block the installation of this update from the WindowsUpdate website via GP? Similar to the IE7 blocker they put in place. I'm massively against the idea of our corp users updating their machines only to find a page asking them to install some random browser. A nasty situation indeed.
  9. Oh right - it hasn't been 14 days. Being impatient I deleted them by hand so I'll create some test deployments or something and have a play...
  10. Hi all, I've noticed that even after I delete Deployment Packages from the SCCM console, the update files still remain in the package source share that I specified when I created the package. Is there a 'proper' way to clean these files up, or is it ok to just delete them? I don't like the idea that I'm going to eventually lose GBs of storage because old updates aren't cleaned out when I remove the packages and deployments etc. Cheers, MRaybone.
  11. Hi all, I have a report which currently provides some info about a particular selected system, and I'd like to edit it to report on the contents of a particularly selected collection instead. I have pretty much 0 SQL knowledge so was hoping someone here could show me the edit I need as I'm unsure on the joins and syntax etc. required...? Here's the query: select sys.netbios_name0, mem.banklabel0 [bank Label], mem.capacity0 [Capacity (MB)], mem.FormFactor0 [Form Factor], MEM.memorytype0 [Memory Type], mem.tag0 [TAG], mem.devicelocator0 [Device Locator], mem.speed0 [speed (MHz)] from v_gs_physical_memory as MEM inner join v_r_system as SYS on SYS.resourceid=MEM.resourceid where sys.netbios_name0 = @compname order by MEM.tag0 select MEMA.MemoryDevices0 [# of Slots], MEMA.MaxCapacity0 [Max. Capacity (MB)] from v_gs_physical_memory_array as MEMA inner join v_r_system as SYS on SYS.resourceid=MEMA.resourceid where sys.netbios_name0 = @compname select mema.memoryDevices0 - Count(mem.tag0) [Number of Free Slots available] from v_gs_physical_memory as MEM inner join v_r_system as SYS on SYS.resourceid=MEM.resourceid inner join v_gs_physical_memory_array as MEMA on sys.resourceid=mema.resourceid where sys.netbios_name0 = @compname group by mema.memorydevices0 Prompt: begin if (@__filterwildcard = '') SELECT DISTINCT SYS.Netbios_Name0 from v_R_System SYS ORDER By SYS.Netbios_Name0 else SELECT DISTINCT SYS.Netbios_Name0 from v_R_System SYS WHERE SYS.Netbios_Name0 like @__filterwildcard ORDER By SYS.Netbios_Name0 end [The original source was from: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/skissinger/archive/2008/09/01/physical-memory-and-memory-slots-hardware-inventory-extension.aspx] Many thanks, MRaybone.
  12. Hmmm, an interesting report. Thanks for that!
  13. Hi all, I was just wondering what the best way is to monitor Software Update deployments. Before I configured our SUP (thank you windows-noob.com !!!) I had my own little system of scripted update packages going out as bog standard Advertisements. Because they were Advertisements, I could easily get an immediate overhead view of how many clients had received, executed, completed or failed to run the Advertisement, over all my sites. There doesn't seem to be anything this immediately obvious for Software Updates, or is there something I'm missing in any of the various reports targeted at this subject? Any ideas, suggestions or preferred methods out there? Cheers, MRaybone.
  14. Ok, that looks pretty cool, I'll have a go at configuring that (it'll take over a week though as I'll have to get some new ports opened up and the change process is very (unnecessarily) long winded ). Thanks!
  15. Hi all, I was just wondering if it is possible to configure a SUP to sync from another Site Server or SCCM controlled WSUS instance, instead of from the internet? I have a separate SCCM hierarchy on a domain isolated from the internet, however it does have access to my other SCCM servers which are allowed out to the net, so I'm hoping I can point it to use one of these as the sync source...? The more I think about it the less likely it seems...
  16. I received a report that a server had rebooted itself at 3am after installing updates - this happened during backup so the owners weren't too pleased... Ater disabling Windows Update GP so that the SCCM client could take control of the Windows Update settings, the Windows Update icon started to appear in the Systray, prompting users to select a time (3:00am by default) for Automatic updates to occur. My guess is that on this particular server, someone actually just clicked OK on this prompt so the machine grabbed updates from the net and rebooted at 3am. My question was that if we apply only the GP setting that you mentioned in your post, would updating via SCCM be unaffected? Simply because the other GP settings in use before prevented SCCM from taking control. Things are looking ok after applying the GPO now anyway, so I think it should all be alright. P.S. Sorry for the delayed replies but I think my email notifications are being blocked by our mail system somewhere.
  17. Thank you - I just replied in that thread with another little question.
  18. Ok, this issue just affected me kind of majorly - a server whose updates were under SCCM's control applied updates and rebooted at 3am. Ouch. Am I right in thinking if this GPO is applied, SCCM's update behaviour is totally unaffected, but the annoying windows update icon with scary restart settings will cease to appear and have any effect? Cheers, MRaybone.
  19. That's our point - you have to create a deployment every month for the patches you want to distribute. It is not an automatic process. The server will sync with Windows Update automatically, providing information on all updates available. Then you need to filter and create an Update List containing the specific updates you wish to deploy, then create a Deployment using the Update List and target it at a collection. Initially, it seems a bit odd, but I've been looking at this as an SCCM Software Update newbie for a few months now and it does make a lot of sense and is pretty cool when it's working. The toughest part is creating a 'workflow' which works best for you and your systems. The best way is to trial it (lots) with a small bunch of test systems first, before you go throwing updates out to All Systems (which I wouldn't recommend anyway). MRaybone.
  20. When you follow the SUP guides, they tell you how to create a single deployment for a group of particular patches. Since Microsoft only release new ones every month, you only really need to do deployments every month, not every 3 days. Once a deployment is active it will continue serving those updates to clients, old and new alike, until you signal it to stop. Once you've installed SCCM, WSUS (remember to just cancel to configuration wizard after setup) and a SUP, you need to make sure you are not configuring WSUS on client systems using Group Policy. Once all this is in place, SCCM should be in a position for you to start creating patch deployments using the Software Updates feature.
  21. Hi all, Now that I have Software Updates working nicely, Group Policy configured (or not, as it were) correctly, and a patch 'workflow' nearly sorted out, one other question has arised. It's not a show stopper, but is troubling all the same... Once the GP is configured so that control is handed over to the SCCM Client, I've noticed that the yellow Windows Update shield appears in the System Tray and asks you to configure how Automatic Updates should work (ie. download + install automatically at xx:xx, download + notify etc.). Can I use the available options in GP to suppress this, or will the presence of Windows Update GPOs confuse the SCCM Client? Im concerned that if I don't address this, user confusion aside, many machines may be configured to just grab updates off the internet instead of our SCCM/WSUS configuration. Any ideas/suggestions/opinions/experiences? Cheers, MRaybone.
  22. Just reapplied SP2 - didn't have the chance until now - and the boot image has been updated now. Thank you!
  23. Ah right. None in there - I already removed (after going to SP2) the ones I had put in there previously. I read in other posts about doing that and then checking 'enable cmd prompt' to make it rebuild the image but this still fails.
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