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 month within my LAB), that would have stopped the functionality of the Certificates to my devices, but I had a start point, the event log of the NDES Server told me the following:
The Network Device Enrollment Service cannot retrieve one of its required certificates (0x80070057). The parameter is incorrect.
The Network Device Enrollment Service cannot be started (0x80070057). The parameter is incorrect.
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ConfigrMgr – The complete Backup (currently)
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 will start from the beginning, until we have reached our goal:
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SQL 2016 – Export Maintenance Plan
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 the SQL Setup:
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ConfigMgr – In-Place Upgrade of SQL from 2012 to 2016
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 the following information to resolve the error, and then repair your installation by using this command line: setup /action=repair /instancename=MSSQLSERVER
Feature failure reason:
An error occurred during the setup process of the feature.
Error details:
§ Error installing SQL Server Reporting Services
A HTTPS sertificate is not configured on the Web site.
Error code: 0x80131500
Visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkId=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50000&ProdVer=13.0.1601.5&EvtType=0x589E8944%400x8285294C&EvtType=0x589E8944%400x8285294C to get help on troubleshooting.
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Setup
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The following error has occurred:
The Report Server WMI provider cannot create the virtual directory. This error occurs when you call SetVirtualDirectory and the UrlString is already reserved. To continue, clear all URL reservations by calling RemoveURL and then try again.
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft%20SQL%20Server&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50000&ProdVer=13.0.1601.5&EvtType=0x589E8944%25400x9A8ECB73
And within ConfigMgr, the srsrp.log showed up with the following errors:
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Windows 10 – Deploy Profile Picture to Logon Screen
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, I just use those two lines of Powershell:
$userphoto = [byte[]](Get-Content "C:\temp\MYUserPic.jpg" -Encoding byte)
Set-ADUser -Identity MYUserPic -Replace @{thumbnailPhoto=$userphoto}
If this is done, and you have also Azure AD Connect in Place, your picture will be synced to Azure AD as well, and therefore the picture will show up in Office365. Mind that there are different recommendations for specific systems (Exchange, Office365, Skype for Business), but you can also use high-resolution images. See also this Microsoft Knowledgebase article for issues with pictures larger than 100kb: Technet Article Exchange Online Hybrid Image size
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ConfigMgr 1606 – Configure Client Cache Size (Configuration Manager Current Branch)
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 that much, but it does happen. In the past, we were required to set a new Cache Size value with WMI (a VBScript or Powershell would have done the job), but with 1602 you can now configure the Cache size with the clients settings:
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Office365 – Manage Updates through Configuration Manager
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
But the client did not even start to download the update:
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ConfigMgr 1602 – Windows 10 Servicing Plans create continuous Software Update Groups
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:
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ConfigMgr 1602 – Windows 10 Servicing “Error 3”
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 Downloader 26.03.2016 19:16:01 7780 (0x1E64)
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 19:16:06 7780 (0x1E64)
Will retry in 5000ms Software Updates Patch Downloader 26.03.2016 19:16:06 7780 (0x1E64)
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 19:16:11 7780 (0x1E64)
ERROR: DownloadContentFiles() failed with hr=0x80070003 Software Updates Patch Downloader 26.03.2016 19:16:11 2800 (0x0AF0)
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ConfigMgr 1602 – All devices are part of the same server cluster
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. You will find it on the General Tab of a collection named “All devices are part of the same server cluster”:
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