Hi There, I recently got the following error when attempting to connect a new Primary Site to a Central Administration Site; Failed to write <> SQL Server certificate to store (TrustedPeople) on site server This turned out to be because the account I was using to install SCCM on the Primary Site server was not …
Hi there, A customer I am working with recently implemented a new child primary site and all seemed to be ticking along smoothly until a rather angry DBA turned up to ask why disk space was being consumed at the rate of knots on the SQL server hosting the SCCM databases…First things first, I was …
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Hi There, There are a number of underlying permissions that must be granted in order for a user to be able to successfully initiate a console session to an SCCM environment. Firstly you need to make sure the user has the correct site permissions… for example, a user requiring Remote Control access may have the …
Hi there, I came across an issue recently with a child primary site that had failed to replicate a number of resources from it’s parent site. After working through some of these issues, and rectifying the replication I needed to perform a full child resync. This is simple to do by running the following command; …
Recently I had the need to do a quick and dirty fix of a couple of virtual applications that had been deployed to users in an environment that uses App-V with SCCM integration. Applications are advertised to users based upon AD Security Group membership and are configured to download and execute, rather than stream from …
Hi There, During testing of a SHIM to fix an application, I accidentally deleted the SDB file from C:WindowsAppPatchCustom, rather than using the sdbinst -u <guid> command to uninstall properly. Whilst attempting to re-run this command I was hit with the following error; This error was preventing me from using sdbinst to reinstall the SHIM. The …
Whilst at a customer recently I had a requirement to run a ‘Diskpart /Clean’ at the start of a task sequence to remove any encryption on the drive, in this case McAfee. I have done this several times in the past however always hit a few niggles so thought I would blog to refer to …
I came across the following error message recently whilst troubleshooting an SCCM Distribution Point; ————————————————————————————————————————– There was an error while performing this operation. Details: Filename: \?C:inetpubwwwrootweb.config Line number: <LineNumber> Error: Cannot add duplicate collection entry of type ‘<XXX>‘ with unique key attribute ‘<YYY>‘ set to ‘<ZZZ>‘. ————————————————————————————————————————– Client’s were downloading packages via SMB rather than …
Whilst recently implementing out of band management for a customer, I had an issue whereby the out of band console would not connect to any provisioned system. The connection status transitioned between; connecting, busy, disconnected and the oobconsole.log file stated; GetAMTPowerState fail with result: 0x80072EE9 The power control options provided by OOB worked fine, – however …