Category Archives: SCCM

Reports

SCCM Report – Count All Computers by Model

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How to create a MS Configuration manager report that will Count All Computers for each Model

This guide will show you how to create a report in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012(R2) / Current branch 1702. In this example we will be creating a report which lists all system models and displays a count of each model.

SCCM 2012 (last checked on build 1702) does not have a prebuilt report that will simply return a list of all the distinct manufacturer/model numbers for all the computers in the environment and a count of each type. Continue reading SCCM Report – Count All Computers by Model →

SCCM, SCCM 2012

Windows update fails with Error 0x80072efd

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Windows update is one of the more important features of SCCM. Keeping all servers and workstations in your environment up to date is most important.

I met the following error while SCCM 2012 was trying to update one of my servers.

The problem

You try to push Windows security updates to a remote machine, but Windows update fails.

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Powershell, SCCM, SCCM 2012

Create SCCM Distribution Point with Powershell

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Hi Sysadmins

You need to create multiple SCCM 2012 Distribution points fast and accurate!

Maybe you decided on upgrading your  environment to SCCM 2012 or your company purchased another organisation. In any case,

The reasonable way will be to use a script, and not use the GUI to do the task over and over.

The preferred scripting environment is Powershell, since it already has many Configuration Manager commandlets that can be helpful.

You do have to work with at least SCCM 2012 sp1 version for the following script to work.

The below Powershell script will read the names of the Distribution points servers from a file. See example for the file Here 

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SCCM 2012 clients’ log files not created

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Hi SysAdmins

In this post I am writing about a minor problem that occurs while installing a SCCM 2012 client, and how to solve it.

The Problem

You install a SCCM client on a machine.

After the installation finishes, you notice that not all logs are populated in the clients’ machine C:\windows\CCM\Logs directory.

If you check ClientIDManagerStartup.log  file, you notice the following error message:

RegTask: Failed to get certificate. Error: 0x80004005

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How to install IIS features on SCCM 2012 Distribution Point with command line

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Hi SysAdmins

Did you ever wonder how SCCM 2012 install a DP remotely from the CM console?

DISM.exe (Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool) is a command line tool that you can use to enable or disable Windows features.

In this case we use it to install all the necessary IIS features for a SCCM 2012 DP.

Command line to install IIS on DPs:

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