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Installer Cheat Sheet Series – Part 3
By Cary Roys Continuing on in our Installer Cheat Sheet Series, this week’s Cheat Sheet is the Installer Folders Cheat Sheet. Most packagers and setup developers have had that moment when they knew where a file needed to go, but weren’t quite sure how to get it there. This is a Cheat Sheet for the translation between how the common folder paths resolve, and the variables you’re most likely to need to map those values to in the installation. Note that the behavior of InstallScript variables is somewhat more complex than this chart suggests, changing based on project type and…
Unsticking Clients from unavailable Distribution Points
I was at a customer site recently and they were simulating a data centre failure as part of their Disaster Recovery plan. They replicate the Site server as a VM across to another data centre in real-time and fail over to it when the main Site se…
Application Deployment: Using AdminStudio Repackager
AdminStudio is a product from Flexera Software that can be a complete, end-to-end application management system. It includes products for application modification and deployment. It comes with Repackager, Tuner, and InstallShield, as well as a host of other products. This article will focus exclusively on Repackager. I will start with all of the information you need to know about Repackager,...
How to Remotely Determine the SMS Provider Using WBEMTest
By Garth Jones From time to time one of the questions we get is: How can I determine what my SMS_provider path/name is? This is important to know because if you do any System Center Configuration Manager 2012 / 2007 or even SMS 2003 automation with VBS or PoSH, you need to know what the provider path/name is for each...
Desktop Transformation Lessons Learned – Business Case, Part 2
By Greg LaVigne In my previous post we discussed the concept and value of leveraging third party user analysis tools and application rationalization tools. These tools are invaluable for identifying which users are viable candidates for Desktop Virtualization based on their actual day-to-day PC utilization metrics as well as which applications are actively being used (vs. just installed!!). Often times these tools are explored after the virtualization infrastructure has been provisioned for further insight into the legacy physical PC environment to better understand the reasons for the lower than expected adoption rates. My recommendation is to perform this analysis up…
Upgrading Distribution Points from SCCM 2007 to ConfigMgr 2012 Error, 0x800706BA!
Recently during an implementation for an upgrade from SCCM 2007 to ConfigMgr 2012 I found that some Distribution Points (DPs) that I was attempting to upgrade were not finalizing on their upgrade. I checked out the Distmgr.log and started seeing the below error as follows: CWmi::Connect() failed to connect to \\<<DPSERVERNAME>>\root\SCCMDP. Error = 0x800706BA First off, one of the things...
Virtual Log Files and impact on ConfigMgr performance
VLF (Virtual Log Files) can have a negative effect on database performance. Too many VLFs will slow down the startup, shutdown and read/write performance of any database. VLFs are created when a transaction log file is allowed to auto-grow. While auto-growth will likely be enabled per database, the transaction log file should already be […]
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Rod Trent: That happens. Its a false positive because there are scripts in the zi...
Tim: Virus detected for the Right Click Tools Link!!...
Fandangoed up the river: Is there any way to have one shortcut to combine both of those menu ...
Ian Pickering: Sure is an option Scott - of course it has a reliance on your SCCM 200...