• Troubleshooting SCCM Part VII .......... OSD .... Part II

    Part II : From windows PE to Full Blown OS Once the client boots to PXE (which we have explained in Part I ) the clients goes to the management point and get the list of policy. If any Mandatory (required) deployment then it will go ahead with that...
  • Troubleshooting SCCM Part VII .......... OSD .... Part I

    Part I : PXE boot Many have been asking to write a blog on how to tracks the logs for OSD so here it is . It is in two parts. Part I is PXE boot and Part II is After the Pxe Boot to Full blown OS. Since we are already in 2012 and 2007 has become obsolete...
  • How to reset the policy or request a Full policy retrieval for a SMS agent

    We have situations where we need to reset the policy and the policy spy which we use does not work or would not prefer to copy the tool. This is a vbscript which we can use. Found it helpful when you want to request a full policy compared to delta...
  • Who is using Wmiprvse is it SMS services

    We have lot instances where the issues like CPU spike , memory usage and even some activities are caused by SMS services. In many of these cases the process in question would be wmiprvse not SMS agent or SMS services directly. Wmiprvse it is not something...
  • SEDO (Serialized Editing of Distributed Objects) ConfigMgr 2012

    SEDO(Serialized Editing of Distributed Objects) As global data is replicated everywhere, a user on a primary site could change an object at the same time as a user on the CAS or other primary servers. This is an unavoidable consequence of replicated...