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Up until last week Task Sequence was taking approximately 9 hours to finish the image at remote sites; now it’s taking a little less than 2 hours. Below is the detailed explanation of the issue and the fix. While checking the SMSTS.log and DataTransferService.log logs on TEST001 (Testing machine) (this one took 9 hours to finish), I found out that the packages and applications were getting downloaded from One of the Primary site (PRI01). We wanted all the packages and applications to be downloaded from Remote distribution point ( RDP01 ) as this server is local on remote network (RN01) and has all the required packages/applications. I looked at the boundaries on PRI02 site (RDP01 belongs to PRI02) and everything was correct. I tried to redistribute packages, delete and re-add the boundary and boundary group for Remote office, but none of these fixed the issue. After struggling for a bit, I decided to check the boundary on PRI01 site.  When I connected to PRI...

Last month I was asked to create an SCCM package for chrome extension -  'RingDNA'  (Intelligent dialer for salesforce) .  Well , at first place , it looks stupid, creating an package for chrome ext. which is just one click away installing from chrome web store, anyways , I still gave a try. Steps:- 1. First of all, I downloaded the .crx file using this  Chrome Extension down loader  -  http://chrome-extension-downloader.com/ 2. In the Registry, I created a new key under the  Extensions  key with the same name as the ID of your extension. If you don't know the ID, follow these steps to note the ID-             a) Install the required extension manually             b) Open settings from chrome  menu bar > click on  Extensions > enable  developer mode                          from top righ...

Issue - Today , some laptop users started reporting as they are unable to connect to corporate wireless after System Center Endpoint protection(SCEP) installation took place. I found, most of the laptop users were having this issue.  Troubleshooting done - I immediately uninstalled SCEP but that didn’t help , tried removing Wi-Fi profiles under the path ‘C :\ProgramData\Microsoft\Wlansvc\Profiles\Interfaces\ Interface’ but that didn’t help too. Error - When checking event viewer, the only error that showed up is as follows 5 times in a row.          “Error skipping EAP method DLL path name validation failed. Error: typeId=25, authorId=0,vendorId=0,vendorType=0”, This error indicates a registry or missing corrupt file issue. ‘ EAPHost is a Microsoft Windows Networking component that provides an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) infrastructure for the authentication of following protocols such as   802.1X   ...

When starting deployment on Site servers deployment fails with the following error:  Failed to run Task sequence . The task sequence cannot be run because the program files for ******** cannot be located on a distribution point. For more Information, contact your System Administrator or Helpdesk Operator. Check following steps to troubleshoot the issue: -Check if boundary groups are connected to site servers and boundaries are set -Redistribute and Validate the ConfigMgr client package on multiple site servers (multiple times) -Check if VLAN communication is working on security, firewall and access control list The following errors are seen in SMSTS.log -Content location request for PR100003:3 failed. (Code 0x80040102) -Failed to resolve PackageID=<?> -Failed to resolve selected task sequence dependencies. Code(0x80040102) -ThreadToResolveandExecuteTaskSequence failed. Code(0x80040102) Reference  : http://henkhoogendoorn.blogspot.in/2015/04/the-ta...

Issue  -   Recently we started witnessing  that one of the site clients ( specifically servers) were unable to install updates.  the Client is unable to communicate to the WSUS Server.  nothing shows in software Center. It gives soap, cookie, and sync errors. We're currently using SCCM 2012 R2 Error -   windowsupdate.log: 2011-10-27 00:11:06:391  808 9b8 PT WARNING: Cached cookie has expired or new PID is i 2011-10-27 00:11:06:391  808 9b8 PT Initializing simple targeting cookie, clientId = , target group = 000-IB Produkcija, DNS name = 2011-10-27 00:11:06:391  808 9b8 PT   Server URL =  http://wsus-zga/SimpleAuthWebService/SimpleAuth.asmx 2011-10-27 00:11:06:485  808 9b8 PT WARNING: GetAuthorizationCookie failure, error = 0x8024400E, soap client error = 7, soap error code = 400, HTTP status code = 200 2011-10-27 00:11:06:4...

Create package using same steps as ‘software distribution’   Command line : cscript "filename.vbs" During deployment , select ‘run program from 'distribution point’   

Problem Description - Recently we come across very strange, shitty and crappy issue. We weren't able to distribute any of the packages or applications resulting work loss and productivity. Error -   I was  following in the ‘distmgr.log’ file and noticed TON of messages like the following. a t the outset, they weren't seems error, I've never seen such errors before and couldn't  find anywhere in the forums, not sure what these messages were referring to.  initially, we wait for one day , two days BUT these messages didn't disappear. Resolution -  We went through all the hierarchy settings and site settings , couldn't find anything useful. When i opened "SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER' component and checked the logs  surprisingly found that 'software update' package size to 25 GB was deleted from all 7 distribution points and considering it's size, it took 7 days to successfully removed the package from all ...