If the verification of the downloads fail make sure you aren’t using the same folder as you used during the original setup of SCCM as it will use the manifest file that is in that folder.

If you ever are in a situation where you have a Site System that has been decommissioned or failed in some way that isn’t going to be restored you wont be able to remove the system from the console for at least 24 […]

Over the weekend the backup failed with this message. Looking at the logs it said:

Error: SMS Writer not found.    SMS_SITE_BACKUP    31/03/2012 7:02:00 PM    13656 (0×3558)
STATMSG: ID=5045 SEV=E LEV=M […]

What was bugging us with Pre-Staged media is that it always skips the apply OS Step. I wanted it to download the OS wim if we had made changes to the base that weren’t just microsoft updates. The CheckBaseVersion […]

During OSD we found that the step to enable bitlocker was not storing the recovery key in the AD, this is because sccm won’t process any group policies until the task sequence is complete. To get around this […]

First off I have to say I know hardly anything about Linux! I was given a linux SOE installed “prepped” on a second partition and was tasked to get it deployed via sccm.

The first problem was automating the […]

We recently had this error happen when reimaging a Windows 7 machine.

%_SMSTSMDataPath% is chosen during OSD by finding the largest drive.

The problem is that the variable %_SMSTSMDataPath% is not […]

I recently was having a difficult time finding drivers for the SMSC infrared driver for Win7. So I thought I would give Windows Update a try – it’s excellent.

To search and download drivers or updates in the […]

Sometimes I get requests that I make me say ‘wow, really?’ then I just do them, this is one. Not confirmed exactly if every browser on the planet is going in our W7 SOE or just being made available to computers. […]

We recently added another distribution point to the mix and for some reason the task sequences started failing getting the following error at different sections:

The hash value is not correct. (Error: 80091007; […]

For some reason using the /ue:*Administrator and /uel:90 in the same command USMT would still migrate the Administrator account over.

We couldn’t have this as we are using /md:*Domain (moves any profile to a […]

I found a really good blog about troubleshooting SCCM and BITS downloads
http://iboyd.net/index.php/2009/01/09/troubleshooting-sccm-and-bits-downloads/

If you are having trouble with certain packages […]

Quick tip:

My Task sequence was working fine until yesterday…

It turns out SCCM was applying one of the new drivers I added for windows 7 somehow causing it to fail.

Simple fix was to only apply the VMware drivers.

First off, Adobe sucks at creating installers.

Follow these directions, not Adobe’s and it will work out just fine.

1. Setup your  Package Source Like this

networkshareAdobe CS4 Design Standard
with a […]

I modified the vbs provided by Don Hite (VBS Script To Change A Remote SMS/ConfigMgr Clients Cache Size) so that I could push it out to multiple machines. Download: Change SCCM Cache Size Package Usage: […]

According to Microsoft you will get this error when you try to activate if your KMS Server hasn’t been patched to accept win 7 clients.

I found out you will get this error if your Date and maybe Time […]