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In your System Center Configuration Manager 2007 environment, you may find that a distribution point is not updating and a pck file may appear to be "stuck" or "locked" in the X:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\inboxes\despoolr.box\received
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I recently came across this issue and thought it might be worth a mention here. If you have some really big packages and don't see any of your changes reflected on the Child Sites then this may be your issue. Symptoms Changes made to an SMS 2003 package/program
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Consider the following scenario: The management point role is installed on a site server that is running Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Many content location requests are sent to the management point when the
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We’ve seen this issue come up a couple times so I wanted to give it a mention here just in case you run into it. The problem is that you may notice Software Deployments are not working for a small percentage of your Configuration Manager clients
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In System Center Configuration Manager 2007, when you run the Discover Management Controllers Task on AMT Enabled Devices you may find that a .rpl file gets created and does not process out on Secondary site servers. Errors like the following occur: Skip
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Here’s an issue I ran into when I was trying to deploy Adobe Flash Player update 9.0.246.0. and since I didn’t see it documented anywhere I thought I’d post it here. The Adobe patch APSB09-10 for Adobe Flash Player 9.0.246.0 was failing to install on
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I thought of blogging this information as it took a little bit of time to identify the root cause of the issue and I didn’t see it documented publicly anywhere. Hopefully if you run into the same issue this will help you find a quick solution. Symptom:
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Carol’s last update of the day (so far) is about how they updated the Configuration Manager Documentation Library for out of band management for SP2, including revisions to troubleshooting issues. According to Carol: Some of these revisions are also applicable
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When you experience issues with your Windows Server 2008 Web Server (IIS) role, including 401, 403, or 500 errors in the IIS logs and MPControl.log, a Configuration Manager 2007 site system relying on the IIS system may also experience issues due to the
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When creating an Update List and downloading software updates for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, some but not all of them may fail with the error "invalid certificate signature" in the confirmation page of the Software Updates Deployment Wizard. This is
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Sometimes the most challenging part of the Configuration Manager 2007/SMS 2003 deployment phase can be ensuring that the client successfully reports to the site server. We occasionally see these issues here in support, typically either as cases for clients
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After applying KB971413 to fix Multicasting for SCCM 2007 OSD deployments where the Windows OS WIM file is over 4GB, Multicast OS deployments may no longer work, including for Windows OS WIM files that are under 4GB. If enabled, the deployment falls back
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We had three new Knowledge Base articles published for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 last week. The first involves and issue where if the package in System Center has a larger image size than what is needed, it can cause System Center
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I had an interesting case the other day and since I didn’t see it documented anywhere I thought I’d mention it here in case anyone else runs into it. What can happen is that when you try to install the Configuration Manager 2007 agent on a workgroup
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I was browsing through some of the other Configuration Manager blogs this morning and found a really good one written by Steve Rachui from our PFE (Premier Field Engineer) group. This one is about a Windows Installer issue he ran into the other
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