By James Avery on
6/12/2009
I was onsite with a customer for a SCCM gig and the morning started out with a great Friday morning of Exchange 2007 OWA not functioning which is used by a majority of the company for email.
So, I halted the SCCM gig and helped the customer resolve the Exchange 2007 OWA issue. Thanks to my co-worker Sohil Merchant from our Houston office, he told me how to resolve this problem in a quick manner.
The issue happens whenever we would connect to OWA, if you haven't cached the site, you should get the following error, "/owa/ /scripts/premium/flogon.js". If you did cache the site you would see the s ...
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By James Avery on
5/21/2009
Where is my CERT.PFX file for SCCM 2007?
Are you having issues with configuring Asset Intelligence Synchronization Point Role on SCCM??? If you are, it's most likely the large question, "Where do I get the CERT.PFX file?" Well, it's usually due to trying to figure out who to contact at Microsoft. No worries now, I'm going to tell you three ways to get this file. First way is to contact Software Assurance or your Microsoft Account Rep. Second way is to let Catapult Systems configure AI for you…in fact, let Catap ...
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By James Avery on
1/21/2009
I found this on TechNet and had to work through it to make it work. The trick is, make sure you copy the script into notepad and rename the script with an ending of .vbs
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/configmgrosd/thread/5924e840-eb6e-48c1-858f-766a5be625a6/
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By James Avery on
1/21/2009
While I was out doing an installation at a customer I noticed I started having problems with the SQL server's Windows Application Log. Below you will find the error and the solution on how to resolve this. This took me 3 days and a call to Microsoft to resolve this problem since I couldn't really find any information online discussing on how to resolve this issue. I feel it's not a common problem, but no less another problem I had to work through.
ERROR from the Windows Application log on the SQL server:
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By James Avery on
1/21/2009
I’m adding this information to my Blog even though this was originally from the eggheadcafe forums site. It took my long and hard to find this solution and once before many moons ago, I had this same problem and neither saved the information or blogged about it. Since MarkAllcoc already wrote a solution up that works, I thought I would keep his solution and just copy and paste into my Blog so other people will find it as well. Thank you Mark for taking time and creating this How To fix for SCCM.
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By James Avery on
1/20/2009
I was at a customer and they have a couple of people/workstations that didn't want to be part of the Software Update collections because they we're "Special", I shouldn't have to explain what that means if you've worked in I.T. long enough. Well, this is how I created the exclusion which was very simple to do…it just took someone like Cameron Fuller to jog my memory with a phone call.
Well, here are the steps with creating that special collection you want to deploy to along with adding the exclusion for that special someone.
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By James Avery on
1/14/2009
SCCM - Software Updates Says "Unknown"
Ok, what does this mean, how do I figure out where the problem is? Man, what a pain!
Below is an example (PIC 1) of what I'm talking about with the "Read More »
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By James Avery on
1/13/2009
Pretty much everyone knows when Microsoft releases their software updates every second Tuesday each month. But did you know it's actually after 10am Pacific Time. Yes, I said Pacific Time. For you peeps that don't know how to calculate that…that would be 11am Mountain Time, 12 Central Time, 1pm Eastern Time. Now Hawaii, well...now you just getting complicated. Who goes to Hawaii to work anyway. Do they have computers over there? (Things that make you go, Hmmm….)
For any of you that don't believe me, check out this link to Microsoft.
http://www.micr ...
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By James Avery on
1/12/2009
While I was trying to figure out why I couldn't get the SMSDBMON.LOG file to stop repeating this error message over and over every second and filling up my server. I was getting desperate and called into MS support. Well, I opened a ticket and they did contact me within 2 hours, but by that time I was so frustrated I decided to try SCCM SP1 (upgrade) since I already tried the "Repair Site" option with no success.
Problem:
Warning: Could not create file e:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager\inboxes\WSUSMgr.box\100.SHA, Error=3.
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By James Avery on
1/12/2009
Greetings everyone, today I ran across a problem with my SCCM and various other things. Basically when I uninstalled SCCM R2 SQL Reporting Services Role, I began to have errors with my Management Point and several other services, and in particular the WSUS role. So, my first steps was to uninstall WSUS and install it again. Well, with no luck when I tried to install the services, I received the error, "Unable to uninstall WSUS due to an error". So, I tried several things including removing all registry entries containing "WSUS" (DON’T DO THIS!). That's another Item I learned…don't remove the WSUS Entries from the REGISTERY.
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