Category Archives: SCCM

The case of the nonresponsive SCCM 2012 Management Point

Hi SysAdmins

In this post I am writing about a strange case that happened in my SCCM 2012 sp1 environment. I’m not sure if its related, but it all happened after installing CU3.

The case was resolved after an intervention of Microsoft Senior Support Engineer. Maybe this will help someone since there is no solution for this on the web.

It all began when my SCCM environment just stopped working…

The Problem:

1. All Packages deployment tasks are grayed out, and stuck on Unknown status.

2. You cannot distribute Microsoft security updates to clients.

3. Might be this as well – in smsts.log you see this error: Task Sequence fails with error: There is no task sequences available to this computer.

4. Check your Management Point server under <install Drive>\Program files\SMS_CCM\Logs\MP_Policy.log for the following lines:

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SCCM 2012 Client installation fails with error code 8004100E

Hi SysAdmins

In this post I want to show a solution for a  SCCM 2012 sp1 client installation problem which I met over my daily routine work.

The Problem:

You try to Install a SCCM client on a remote XP-sp3 machine, and the installation fails. In ccmsetup.log  you see the following:

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Error 0x800706BA when trying to install new Distribution Point in SCCM 2012 sp1

Hi SysAdmins

I just thought to share with you something I recently was troubleshooting.

Maybe you met this as well,

This occurred  in SCCM 2012 sp1 CU1.

The problem:

You are trying to install a new DP, and the installation fails.

Also, the Distribution point configuration status under Monitoring shows red X with an error saying …cannot connect to remote DP.

When you check Distmgr.log you see the following lines:

Error:

CWmi::Connect() failed to connect to \\<<DPNAME>>\root\SCCMDP. Error = 0x800706BA

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Packages content status stuck on “in Progress” in SCCM 2012

Hi Sysadmins

Recently I noticed that my SCCM 2012 sp1 CU1 stopped distributing content to remote DPs.

Troubleshooting this problem has been a pain so I thought I’d share this with you.

This apply to : SCCM 2012 / SCCM 2012 sp1 / SCCM 2012 sp1 CU1

The Problem:

  1. Distribution points doesn’t get the content you distribute to them from the primary server.
  2. When you look at a package deployment status you see the package status stuck on ‘in progress’:

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Create SCCM 2012 boundaries and boundary groups

Hi SysAdmins

If you are managing your enterprises’ servers and workstations with SCCM 2012 (as you should do) ,

you probably will need to build boundaries, boundary groups and add these boundaries to boundary groups.

This will make sure that the site server DP that you join with a specific boundary group will distribute content only to workstations in its associated boundaries.

This was known as protected boundary in SCCM 2007.

If you need to create SCCM 2012 boundaries and boundary groups automatically without repeating the process over and over,

The following Powershell script will receive a list of data from a .CSV file and create boundaries and boundary groups respectively.

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