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Hello, I am having an issue with Software Center that just recently came about. The Software Center was working as expected (showing advertised, available deployments to devices) until very recently. Basically, no applications are showing as Available (or at all) when deployed to a collection that a machine is in. Running the Machine Policy Retrieval & Evaluation Cycle produces no results. I have double checked that the deployment exists with the proper settings, and it has been distributed properly, but nevermind that as the same deployments worked fine before the end of last week. Incidentally, I followed a guide on Windows-noob on installing the application catalog which is working fine now. I'm wondering if this correlates with the issue I'm now having with the software center. My apologies as I am still quite novice with SCCM. Please let me know if there are log files or any other detail that I should provide to help you help me. Thank you very much in advance for your help. I'm attaching a couple of log files where I found errors, but I'm not certain if these are pertinent at all. Also I noticed in Server Manager that I have some "red" I'm also attaching a screenshot of the services that produced this.CcmMessaging.logCcmNotificationAgent.log

I'm tryin to setup the report services point site system role on my SCCM 2012 SP1 primary site. However when I get the configuring the settings the "Reporting Services server instance" is blank, and I'm not able enter anything inside that box. I verified my reporting services configuration manager that report server is setup properly. I see other threads posting similar issues but many of them has to do with SQL 2008. Current SCCM 2012 SP1 configuration is below.... Primary Site Server: SCCM 2012 SP1 SQL Server(separate remote server) SQL Server 2012 CU2 ***SMSAdmin Account has local admin rights on the sql server*** Thanks Paul

Hi All, Been a while !! I have a production SCCM system in place, and seem to have inherited sole responsibility for all sccm matters. this is fine, however recently I was asked to create some standalone media, which again in itself is an easy task. Upon trying to create this, via the gui method I get a dialog saying: creation failed "a certificate is missing or has an empty value for an important field, such as subject or issuer name." I set the sccm sp1 environment up to be mixed mode, i.e. http I am not aware of making any chages relating to certificates so I am a bit stumpted as to what is causing this. the environment the system is running does however have a PKI / CA sub CA - but I know very little about this.... I had a look at the createtsmedia.log : it also said the following: could not find trusted root key for site XXX in wmi failed to create media 0x800b0108, details=" createmedia finished with error code 800b0108 I have tested creation on all task sequences - all fail with this issue. All task sequences work fine via pxe.... Anyone seen this before ? Anyone know why I am getting this now, after 8 months with sccm 2012 sp1 working fine ? Anyone know how to fix it !!!! or can direct me in to the area I should be looking at.. We have a very slack attitude to change at our organisation which doesn't help, so al;though the issue looks like sccm related it could well be pki, cert or some other infrastructure change that I am not aware of by colleagues. Anyway - Any help or experience in this would be great and hopefully I can return the favour sometime Once again thanks !!

Yesterday we found that one of our DPs was not receiving packages, so we started digging around to find out why. In the process I discovered that the DP did not have the Software Update Point role installed. "Great!" Nobody who has access has admitted making any changes to the system, of course. Are there any known issues that might cause DPs to "loose" installed roles? I also discovered 2 DPs that no longer had the State Migration Point and Component Server roles installed. I didn't think a DP could exist without the Component Server role... Is there a bigger problem I need to be looking for in our system? Configuration Info: Single Site Server 27 Distribution Points deployed to remote locations DPs all configured with Site System, Component Server, Distribution Point, State Migration Point, and until recently Software Update Point. Please let me know if you need more details. Thanks, LT.Son

All, First post and still getting my head around this all... Windows Server 2008 R2 environment with SCCM 2012 SP1 (fresh install). I have deployed a Primary site with 4 Distributions Points and was able to deploy boot packages, driver packages and small system image (1.5GB XP image as test) up until recently... (excluding 1 DP, it stopped after trasnferring only a couple of packages) I am trying to distribute much larger files including a Adobe CS6 package (6.5GB) and a Win 7 image (13GB) and wonder if there is a limit? But the distribution point located on the primary site updates fine with all content I have thrown at it so far. Pull DP was enabled originally and then disabled for testing this problem on 1 or two DPs. For the life of me I can't find an error relating to why this is happening. Maybe its me just looking in the wrong place? Error logs on PS: Sender.log - shows sending capacity as 0 out of 5 used. PkgXferMgr.log - Sees the send request showing file in snapshot and uses 0 out of 8 threads then counts to the 100 retries before it deletes the send request. After much googling I am still coming up empty handed... If anyone can provide me with what log files I need to concentrate on for this and any other tips I would appreciate it! *note I just tried a small file and even this isn't working now to any but the PS.

I already Installed SCCM 2012 sp1 successfully, but when i'm trying to give access to different user i'm getting below error. The user account running the Configuration Manager console has insufficient permissions to read information from the Configuration Manager site database. The account must belong to a security role in Configuration Manager. The account must also have the Windows Server Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) Remote Activation permission for the computer running the Configuration Manager site server and the SMS Provider

Hello, I have inherited a SCCM environment and I need to configure reporting services for an asset manager internally. It looks like the current install is a bit broken as when we browse the website internally we get the attached site. reporting We can run reports from the SCCM console ok however. Our SCCM environment is running on two servers 1 Server Running as the Primary SCCM site 1 Server running SQL as a site system server Screen shots of roles installed to each server. Could it be that we are missing a cretin component from our SQL server to have the reporting page display correctly? I cant see any IIS install to configure on the SQL server. Thanks, Hadleigh

Hello, I need help. 1 month ago I configure Application Catalog and deploy a lot of application w icon, description and othe beautiful things. But 2 days ago I want add one more application and discover something strange. Application didn't appear in the AC. Ok, it was end of day, and I went home. In the next morning application was appear. Now all changes apples every 12 hours. Sorry, but I don't know in what way I must work and what kind logs can help me. Have you got any ideas?

Hey Guys, I am in the need of a query , report or script that will generate a list of all of the applications that use a specific version of Java. I've used report Software 01A and as it does give me all of the versions of software I need to know what applications actually have a dependency on these versions of Java. My fellow SCCM admins out there I know this is a unique request, but if anyone has any ideas I'm all ears. Thanks!

Hey guys, I am fairly new to the world of SCCM Administration (4 months), but I have maintained fairly well. There is one aspect that I would like to get a better grasp on and that is creating custom queries. An example of a job that I have been tasked with is finding all versions of Java in the environment which devices they are installed on. Now with my experience I know that the results will be very robust, but informative as well. If someone has an example of a query that can assist me with reaching this goal it would be greatly appreciated.

After upgrading to SP1 I can no longer schedule Windows updates on an operating system image. The Scheduled Updates Status goes from "Processing", to "Failed to mount the image on the system". This feature did work prior to upgrading to SP1. I have made sure that Endpoint Protection has C:\ConfigMgr_OfflineImageServicing as an exception. I've also tried uninstalling WSUS 3.0 SP2 and installing it. I've included the OfflineServicingMgr.log file. Any suggestions on how to proceed will be appreciated. OfflineServicingMgr.log

Hi, I have a stand alone Primary Site... I want to have High availability, because we have a datacenter in another city. The two site are one subnet, linked by Gb/s fiber link. When i look on internet, it seems there is no real possibility to have high availability for SCCM 2012 SP1?? Am i right? We have a SQL Cluster, with nodes on both sites. My SCCM server is on VM, Hyper-V. For SCCM; i'm deploying another site server, but it can only have some of the site roles, not all of them... So in case of emergency, what is the best solution? I think about Hyper-V replica... Any other idea or better solution? Thank you all, Oli

Hi, I have a SCCM 2012 SP1 Primary Site, stand alone. I have installed the Software Update Point, and I have created the ADR for updating by updates category and on relevant collections, as described here : http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/5683-using-system-center-2012-configuration-manager-part-5-adding-wsus-adding-the-sup-role-deploying-the-configuration-manager-client-agent/ The first week, everything seems to be ok... but suddenly some of my workstations have shown in Software Center: Downloading, 0%... I've started troubleshooting, and i have found out that my packages on SCCM Console shows a completion status of "failed". When I look further, i see the error is; "The source folder for content does not exist" When i check the path, it is the correct path, defined before in the ADR Creation. But there is no more subfolder... If i run manually the ADR, i see that the folder (for example "Windows 8") is created in the correct path. But after sometimes, this folder seems to be deleted! At least there is nothing left in the parent folder. And this happens before all my clients workstations have been updated ==> the ones that get the updates later will not be able to apply the patches... I have applied the CU2, but it does not seem to help... For information, the path is type: \\SCCMSRV\Sources$\SoftwareUpdates\ And when the ADR runs, the subfolders appear at: \\SCCMSRV\Sources$\SoftwareUpdates\Windows8 Anybody can help? Thank you very much in advance! Oli

I am trying to figure out how to remedy a bunch of expired Microsoft updates (1,000+) that Is showing up in my SCCM console after I ran my first sync once WSUS and SUP was installed. Below are the steps take so far: Removed SUP role from my site server (SCCM) Removed WSUS from Server 2012 Restarted server Reinstalled WSUS (I noticed that the 2 previous synchronizations I performed from the WSUS console on the server was still there as if I never deleted WSUS.) Reinstalled SUP on the site server (SCCM). This time from the product list I only selected Security updates as opposed to: Security, Critical, and just plain old updates, which is why I think I have over 1,000 expired updates Also I elected to delete the expired updates as soon as they are superseded. I then let the synced the updates from the SCCM and let it run over night. I went to check the All updates section under application management node and there are about 648 new none-expired updates but the old expired updates are still there (over 1,000) I did notice also that the previous syncs that I performed on the WSUS console are still there even after I removed the WSUS role Hmmm, scratching my head.

Hello all I just finish configuring WSUS and my SUP on my SCCM server but seem to have made an error in judgment. During the setup of the SUP I was given the option to select which software updates to received form Microsoft: Security, Critical, Office etc. Well I selected one called updates and I think that was a general option which is why I have like 1,000.00 updates siting in the All Software Updates section. I would like to do the following 1) reconfigure which updated I subscribe to (hopefully this does not involve removing sup or WSUS) 2) Remove all of the updates and resync from WSUS from scratch.

I am testing to different models in my environment to move from SCCM 2007 R3 to SCCM 2012 SP1. I have run into an issue do to SCCM 2012 boot wim's are windows 8. We have some intel p4's that we have and they do not support the boot wim of windows 8. I took the x86 boot wim that I had from the sccm 2007 R3 deployment and tried to import that into SCCM 2012 SP1. It tells me that the image is not finalized. I have downloaded the WAIK 3.0 and tryied importing the wimpe.wim straight up and it would not. I am not sure if there is a way to take the install.wim from the dvd or another wim. I do not need very much in the wim, I use vbscripting. Or if there is a wim that i can download from someone to try? I need help finding out if there is something different that i need to do to create an boot wim and finalizing it to work with SCCM 2012 SP1.

We are looking at deploying Windows 8 via SCCM 2012 to a load of Tablets. We are currently doing the deployments over the wired network but it would be great if we could connect to the wireless network during the OSD so the machines always connect to it when on allowing first time domain login to be done wirelessly. We used to do this using the NetSH WLan command however this is no longer supported in Win PE 4.0. Is there a way we can do this through SCCM? If we could customise the boot image to add the Wlan functionality that would be great. Sorry if this is an incredibly simple question i'm still finding my feet with SCCM I understand this would be more difficult for U/P wirless networks but at the moment we're just using MAC authentication. If the Machine can see the wireless it can connect to it. Although U/P connection ideas would be more than welcome too for future reference.

I was wondering if anyone had a link that explains how to deploy Windows 2008 R2 Server using SCCM 2012 SP1. I'd like to be able to install certain Windows 2008 R2 roles (file sharing, printing, dfs, etc) and features (branchcache, snmp, etc) with SCCM 2012. I've looked around, but mainly I find Windows 7 deployment. Thanks!

I have got the following problem with OSD in SCCM 2012 SP1. TS OSD works without problems on distribution points into primary or secondary sites and DP with Windows server 2008 R2 OS, the problem, however, occurs at the DP with OS Windows 2012 TS downloaded boot image and then restart in Win PE but after format drive Task Sequence has failed with error code 0x80070002, BITs are not enabled and permissions are the same yacon DP as in DPs OS 2008 R2, please any idea what could be wrong?

Hi all, I am currently getting error in SCCM 2012 for SMS_POLICY_PROVIDER as per attached picture. Can someone help me to solve this issues. I cannot create any software update groups in SCCM getting following error (please find attached picture Untitled1)

I'm running SCCM 2012 SP1 and here's what I'm trying to achieve. I'm trying to deploy Windows 7 x64 SP1 updates via the same task sequence that deploys the OS. What I've done: Task sequence works and it targets the All Unknown Computers device collection Created a Scan For Updates task Created a Wait For Scan To Finish task Created Install Updates task Created a Software Update Group that lists Windows 7 x-64 updates for the last 9 months Created a deployment task for step 5 that targets All Unknown Computers device collection Created a Deployment Package for step 5 Here's what happens: OS is deployed properly Updates don't seem to be installed Here are some warnings I read in the WUAHandler.log file: Unable to read existing WUA resultant policy. Error = 0x80070002. Seems Group Policy is not yet initialized because client is in provisioning mode, writing WSUS Server location in registry. Here are errors in the smsts.log file: (these seem to be new errors that come up after installing SP1, but I don't know if these are preventing the updates from installing) CryptProtectData failed TSManager 5/8/2013 12:06:55 PM 2828 (0x0B0C) DecryptString failed. 8007000d. TSManager 5/8/2013 12:06:55 PM 2828 (0x0B0C) CryptProtectData failed TSManager 5/8/2013 12:06:55 PM 2828 (0x0B0C) DecryptString failed. 80070057. TSManager 5/8/2013 12:06:55 PM 2828 (0x0B0C) Getting active request access handle TSManager 5/8/2013 12:06:55 PM 2828 (0x0B0C) Error opening HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\SMS\Task Sequence. code 80070002 TSManager 5/8/2013 12:06:55 PM 2828 (0x0B0C) Error - could not get package and program IDs. code 80070002 TSManager 5/8/2013 12:06:55 PM 2828 (0x0B0C) Failed to open the task sequence key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SMS\Task Sequence. Error code 0x80070002 TSManager 5/8/2013 12:06:56 PM 2828 (0x0B0C) I'm attaching some of the configuration settings I've created in the task sequence.

The Cumulative Update 1 for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 KB2817245 has been released. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2817245 contains the fixes, updates, and the request link for the hotfix which is approximately 59 MB.

I'm in the process of configuring boundary groups for site assignment, but I want to ensure that each boundary in my boundary group is not a member of another boundary group with a different site assignment. I currently have a SCCM 2007 source hierarchy in our environment, which have a separate boundary for each Active Directory site within our local forest. My question is when I create my boundaries and boundary groups in SCCM 2012 SP1, how to I prevent overlapping my boundaries in my SCCM 2007 enviroment. I read the technet documentation that overlapping boundaries are not supported for site assignment. However, I read overlapping boundaries are supported for content location. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh427326.aspx#BKMK_CreateBoundary Thanks in advance Paul

So we're in this waiting game along with everyone else who still has that odd number of older workstations that they need to provide support for, and hoping that someone will come up with a solution to the issue. While going over some different threads, I ran across the mention of running WDS in parallel with SCCM. Basically, the idea was to use WDS for your older stations and use WinPE 3.1 images, while allowing SCCM to handle your newer deployments utilizing WinPE 4.0. Has anyone done this or have any inclination on how this could be configured? Would a setup like this involve the "Specify the PXE server response delay" option under the DP PXE settings?

I am currently using SCCM 2012 SP1 RTM on server 2012. My trouble is PXE boot is not working. It go through the pxe process and see the pxe server and connects it tries to boot from both. I have included images of what i am getting. I know i might have left some things out any help would greatly appropriated PXE BOOT.rtf PXE ERROR.rtf