Tag: Configuration Manager

In some scenarios like demo, test and proof-of-concept environment it is sometimes necessary to install the SCCM DashBoards Solution Accelerator on the SCCM Primary site server itself, which is not recommended in a production environment. The first time I ran this setup I noticed that Windows SharePoint services stops the default website, which SCCM depends…

During a project I stumbled on some new useful hotfixes for SCCM 2007 Sp2 released in September which helped us in the project and which could be useful elsewhere. 1. The Active Directory system discovery process cannot detect a client if the DNS suffix of the client differs from its DNS domain name in System…

One of the most common problems I see at customers is that the IIS logs on the SCCM servers are filling up the system drive. The log files can easily become around up to 2GB per day on a site server with the MP and DP roles on it, of course depending on many other factors as well, number…

There are many scenarios where there is a need to add a computer to an AD-group during deployment, for instance to enable the computer to use a wireless network or adding the computer to a application group. I created this little script which can be run for instance from a task sequence in SCCM, which…

As we work with System Management of course we must deploy the SCCM Admin Console to our administrative computers automatically by using SCCM, installing it manually is no sport 😉 Many of us use SCCM 2007 R2 and as you all know it must be installed in addition to the SCCM admin console to enable…

In some scenarios where the users have need of running say Windows 7 and Windows Vista/Windows 7 locally on different partitions it is fully possible to do this using Configuration Manager 2007. The user could be local admin on the second partition, useful for software developers, engineers e.t.c. However you will not be able to…

Thought it would be a good idea to share the list of hot-fixes I normally apply when installing a new SCCM system, it can save you a lot of headache and troubleshooting after you install a new SCCM environment. User state migration fails on a SCCM 2007 SP1 client or on a SCCM 2007 SP2…

Ran into a problem where WMI stopped responding on a Windows 2008 R2 server which we use to host a Primary Site server.  Applied these two hotfixes on the Windows 2008 R2 server which are both related to WMI memory leaks, and now the system is running as a dream! KB981314 – The “Win32_Service” WMI class leaks memory in…