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    Disabling Prestaged Content on SCCM Distribution Points With PowerShell

    I recently worked with a customer to deploy a large number of Distribution Points (DPs).  We had good timing on the project, because the customer also was deploying new virtualization hosts at the same time.  This allowed us to create prestaged content and include in the VM templates sent on the hosts, so that the…

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    More SQL Queries for Monitoring SCCM 2012 Package Distribution

    To keep going on my monitoring packages on Distribution Points (DPs) theme for SCCM 2012, PowerShell Script to Redistribute Failed Packages & SQL Query for DPs with Failed Packages, here are a couple more quick queries that I use. A quick note before I get into the queries.  The structure and organization of the SCCM DB can be…

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    SCCM Compmon.log Errors

    I was recently doing a health check on a SCCM 2012 R2 Primary Site Server before it was released to production and found the following errors in the Compmon.log. Failed to read the required Operations Management component registry key values on local computer; error = 6 (0x6). SMS_COMPONENT_MONITOR 8/6/2014 3:01:18 PM 5652 (0x1614) Failed to…

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    Clustered Resource Error 1227 Kerberos Authentication Enabled

    While deploying a Windows Server 2012 R2 clustered file server I ran into the following cluster event which caused the clustered resource to fail: “Network Name resource ‘Cluster Name’ (with associated network name Resource Name) has Kerberos Authentication support enabled. Failed to add required credentials to the LSA – the associated error code is ‘1068’.” It was also surrounded by…

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    Access denied by Business Data Connectivity through SharePoint

    When creating and modifying External Content Types in SharePoint, you may see the error Access denied by Business Data Connectivity. This usually means that you need to give permissions to specific users and groups for that External Content Type.  To set the permissions, here’s the procedure: ~ Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration on the server that holds the…

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    Adding a Collection Parameter to a Default SCCM 2012 Report

    Many of the reports that come with SCCM 2012 include a parameter for device collections, but not all of them.  This is a quick way to filter a report based on groups of devices you have already created. Here are a couple bits of SQL you can use to add a collection parameter to a…

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    Web Application Proxy fails with Error Code 0x8007520C

    I recently needed to move my lab environment to a new location, which meant a slightly extended downtime (I’m pretty busy) and a new set of public IP’s. I’m uncertain if it’s related, but one side effect of the move was that the console of my Web Application Proxy (WAP) said “The operation stopped due…

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    Creating a SCCM Device Collection Based on User Properties

    In a previous post, I covered how create a collection without a Limiting Collection.  Now it’s time to talk about why you would want to do that. I have a customer that has a lot of processes built on organizing users with Active Directory properties.  With User and Device Affinity in SCCM, this seems like a great…

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    Finding Systems by Serial Number in SCCM

    Many companies have accounting and asset databases with information about SCCM clients that is not always up to date.  Being able to reconcile this data with SCCM is a common task for admins.  I recently needed to take a set of serial numbers and see if SCCM had data on the systems.  Here is the…

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