Category: ConfigMgr

  • ConfigMgr – NDES Certificate Deployment fails due to Network Device Enrollment Service failure

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    I was struggling a little bit within my LAB trying to get the Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES) up and running again for the Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP), which is I believe not that simple, but anyway. I was really unsure what I did have changed (because I changed a lot in the last…

  • ConfigrMgr – The complete Backup (currently)

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    Motivated from my attend at IT/Dev Connection in Las Vegas, I wanted to create my complete Backup from ConfigMgr so far. Because I was required to copy a lot of work from other people together, I decided to create a blog with each detailed step to achieve a fine Backup at the end, and I…

  • SQL 2016 – Export Maintenance Plan

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    Since I started to back up my System Center Configuration Manager Site within a SQL Maintenance Plan, I wondered how I would be able to export this Plan. To be able to restore the plan quickly, in case of failure, I wanted to export the maintenance plan. This starts by installing the Integration Services from…

  • ConfigMgr – In-Place Upgrade of SQL from 2012 to 2016

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    Hi, today I did an In-Place Upgrade of my SQL Installation from SQL 2012 to the 2016 Release which is also supported by System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch (1606). Everything went fine except the Report Service, I received the following errors within the upgrade: Action required: The upgrade process for SQL Server failed. Use…

  • Windows 10 – Deploy Profile Picture to Logon Screen

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    In my current deployment I wanted to get our fancy pictures from Active Directory to our Windows 10 Machines where it can be used for the logon screen and other places like start menu: First, I want to let you know, how I add the Picture to my user accounts. Well this is quite simple,…

  • ConfigMgr 1606 – Configure Client Cache Size (Configuration Manager Current Branch)

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    Hi reader, the newest Version of System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch (1606) is rolling out these days with a lot of new features and opportunities. But one of my favorites is definetly a very practical one: How often would you like to easily change the configured Cache size of a Configuration Manager Client? Not…

  • Office365 – Manage Updates through Configuration Manager

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    Today I had the problem that some clients were failing to install the Client 365 Package from our System Center Configuration Manager (1602). I have set up the configuration for the Office 365 installation through GPO, this process is outlined on the following TechNet Article: Manage Office 365 client updates with System Center Configuration Manager…

  • ConfigMgr 1602 – Windows 10 Servicing Plans create continuous Software Update Groups

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    I was running the Service Plan for the Windows 10 enrollment within System Center Configuration Manager 1602 (Current Branch). Unfortunately the option the use the same Software Update Group over and over again is missing:

  • ConfigMgr 1602 – Windows 10 Servicing “Error 3”

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    Today I solved my Problem with the Service Plan of my Environment, it always ended up with the following Error in the Patchdownloader.log, this Log usually reside in “C:\Program Files\SMS_CCM\Logs”: Failed to move C:\Windows\TEMP\CABD212.tmp to \\deheim.hosebei.ch\hosebeiDFSroot\Deployment\Packages\_UpdatePackages\20160116 – Win10x64\9a30f732-4d40-4b56-b86b-8253f80868a1.1\10586.0.160212-2000.th2_refresh_CLIENTENTERPRISE_VOL_x64fre_en-us.esd, error 3 Software Updates Patch Downloader 26.03.2016 19:16:01 7780 (0x1E64) Will retry in 5000ms Software Updates Patch…

  • ConfigMgr 1602 – All devices are part of the same server cluster

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    Hi folks, we are on the way, it will finally happen: We will be able to serve Clusters with System Center Configuration Manager and it’s update functionality. With the new released current branch 1602, a new feature called server cluster maintenance coordination was added to ConfigMgr, it comes close to a Cluster Aware updating solution.…