I am using SCCM 2012 R2. I deployed a package to a collection. About half of the clients received the package. What can I do from the server side to re-initiate the push to the clients that it didn't deploy to? Also, I noticed that Configuration Manager re-evaluates the requirement rules for all deployments every 7 days by default. This seems a bit sparse. They also recommend you do not change this. Any ideas?
Thanks,
James
James A+, Network+, MCP
All of our software is distributed through the Application Catalog. After a user installs an app it is now displayed in the Software Center. From time to time I get asked to clear the "history" in Software Center. Some users are uninstalling the apps at a later date, but are then plagued with a constant "New Software is Available" notification every morning they start their machine.
Does anyone know if there is a way to reset the software center status for a particular computer? I know there are ugly workarounds from the server like removing the deployment and re-deploying it, but that isn't suitable in this case.
I was looking for a folder that have large size in my c drive .soddenly I've found ccmchache folder with 5GB .I change the cache size on clients nicely to 500 MB.
but after a week that sccm wanted to install update on clients I faced with too many updates about 50 Updates that should be installed .I let them install .after restarting windows I saw some of the Update hasn't be installed .
on the other hand some of updates that I had defined to be required to install and I expect them install automatically But some of them become an available update and waiting for user approve to install .
whats the solution .?please .
hi
I have installed SCCM 2012 r2 with two servers .A site server and a database server .I enabled software metering on client settings and software and hard ware inventory .But I ve got a problem that sccm doesn't create software metering rules automatically .I had already enabled Automatic create software metering rule on SMW properties . But no luck yet.
when I create a rule manually It works fine but Its not working automatically .
Lets suppose If I have not distributed the content before the deployment and it got failed to deploy and in later time if I distribute the content will it get installed automatically (which I don’t want obviously), or will that be based on required or available deployment settings?
James A+, Network+, MCP
We're in the process of trying to roll out OSD to production. Too many content location requests can peg the MP.
We're aware of CPU spikes related to large numbers of content lookup requests associated primarily with software update deployments. Of primary concern is when we make updates available to 20,000 computers.
What we see is that even when we deploy the content to the collection off hours (say 1am) , the desktops will download content off-hours. Then, beginning around 8am we see a steady progression in the number of clients checking in. What we are trying to work towards is being able to predict how many content lookups we anticipate at any given points.
We know that at any minute where we attempt to process more than 3,000 content lookups in the same minute, the SQL processor gets pegged, and the MP log states a timeout - which could potentially impact OSD.
Has anyone else attempted to track when clients enter the environment, how many content location requests are placed per minute/hour etc? <cough cough> GARTH JONES? </cough cough> We can attempt to archive the SQL table with the policy timestamp, and check for differences, but this is not necessarily a reflection of whether you needed content or not. I am not aware of any way to track content location requests short of trying to logscrape mp_Location.log..
If this was possible, the next step would be to try and say 'collections X has 12,000 machines, Y has 3000 machines, and Z has 200 machines, so we expect 15,200 machines to request content on Monday morning. Based on historical averages, we expect x . minute, with the threshold of 3,000/minute being exceeded between 8:54am and 9:09am. '
Thoughts?
Will
I have created an application package for .NET 4.5.1 offline installer with the following installation command:
NDP451-KB2858728-x86-x64-AllOS-ENU.exe /q /norestart /ChainingPackage "ADMINDEPLOYMENT"
When SCCM attempts to install this application after a machine policy refresh the install fails with the following errors:
[12/13/2013, 8:51:47] Directory 'C:\e5bb6b6b88f53e9031f3ffa7a961\' has been selected for file extraction [12/13/2013, 8:51:47] Extracting files to: C:\e5bb6b6b88f53e9031f3ffa7a961\ [12/13/2013, 8:51:47] Error 0x80004005: Failed to extract all files out of box container #0. [12/13/2013, 8:51:47] Error 0x80004005: Failed to extract [12/13/2013, 8:51:47] Exiting with result code: 0x80004005
Manually going to the machine and running the installation via the Software Center results in the application installing correctly and reporting back to SCCM as a success.
I've tried going the route of the web installer but it fails because it can't get past the corporate proxy and I'd prefer the offline installer anyways. The web installer does manage to extract itself via SCCM though. I have already tried redownloading the installer but it didn't make a difference.
Any advice?
Thanks in advance.
Hi
Currently i am migrating APP-V 4.6 PACKAGES to SCCM 2012, as part of this process few OSD's of applications are not getting imported.
ex:- if application has 10 OSD then only 5 OSD are getting imported.
Since App-v 4.6 was earlier standalone all the OSD were published to different user using different AD groups,
Do the package has to be edited again to import all OSD or manifest files has to be changed to include all OSD to get imported to SCCM 2012.
Thanks
We have a problem that packages are being deleting constantly according to the distmgr.log. this is going on non-stop for many days.
package distributions have come to a halt. nothing will distribute. nothing can be found in logs anywhere to indicate why.
we want to stop the deleting jobs. so we can troubleshoot and per chance packages will distribute in meantime.
we have a premier support engineer with us. so far no luck in determining cause or stopping the process.
Michael Pace Client Services Team Allegis Group, Inc.
Hi
have tried most of the things I have found on google now with no luck getting the SQL installed on a client computer (Win 8.1) during OSD.
I have configured a ConfigurationFile.ini.
At the moment I have created a package with the SQLEXPRWT_x64_ENU.exe and ConfigurationFile.ini, no application. This gets copied over to the client in a task. The next task executed with the command SQLEXPRWT_x64_ENU.exe /SAPWD="xxxxxxxxx" /ConfigurationFile="c:\temp\sql\ConfigurationFile.ini" and returns the error 0x80070002
If I run the installer from a commandline it installs without problems.
Grateful for help
Kjetil
-- kjetil
Like the title says I've running into the following screenshot. I've been using the powershell application deployment toolkit and its awesome. Prior to me taking over the SCCM environment they were yanking the MSI out of the exe and building a CMD file. Which worked but caused quite a bit of corrupted installs. The toolkit offered many benefits, and i'll stop to selling it.
I built the script to iterate through any previous versions of java registered in the root\cimv2\sms namespace and remove them prior to installing Java 8 as jumping from 7 to 8 won't remove the previous version. After building the script I tested it thoroughly. 4 machines i tested it on manually and it worked 4 for 4. So when i built the package in 2012 i didn't expect to run into any problems, but of course Murphy is always waiting. So i've tried everything i can think of and have been googling for 4 days now. Nothing on codeplex resembling this problem, couldn't find anything on technet, etc. So this is my last resort.
The only difference between me running it manually and SCCM running it is it gets run under the system context. The script kicks off fine and removes the previous versions fine but when it comes time to install the new version it fails. The execmgr.log shows the same error as in the pic. I tried removing the custom function i added, to just install the app, that failed to. I turned on verbose logging on my client for testing hopping for a better hint but still nothing, just this ambiguous 3. I tested the script so i could see the path, its calling the proper path and the installer starts, it just doesn't complete.
If there is anything anyone could toss me i'd really appreciate it. I'm pulling my hair out over here. Thanks in advance.
-KR
ConfigMgr 2012 R2 - CU4, Single Primary Site
Most applications I deploy are set as available deployments for users to install on demand. This week we have seen large numbers of clients requesting applications that have no required deployment, and forcing themselves onto client machines during the maintenance window, without any user requesting it. The applications are all deployed to a device collection, All Workstations. This collection contains over 12,000 clients. Only a handful between 300-5000 are requesting a specific application. For instance 300 are requesting Blackboard Collaborate app and 1000 are requesting Google Talk Plugin, despite only one deployment existing which is set to Available. Thought it was a fluke at first, but now many clients are doing it to various applications with very little consistency.
Other than CU4 being applied last week (tonight was the deadline of the CU4 client install), there have been no changes to the clients, site server, or any of the applications being requested and installed during the maintenance window. If I have no required deployment or supersedence, then how could they be getting installed without instruction by me or the user?
MS has been unable to help thus far. Anyone seen this sort of behavior before?
hi, i have a problem with client risk in end point protection status.
i was deploy scep on client, some of client get in into client risk.
how to manage that client dont get status client risk again.
thank you
Hello!
Whenever i delete a Deployment from a collection, it doesn't get deleted out of the clients Softwarecenter. The Application is still visible on the client and if I click the button to install it, I get an error telling me that the Softwarecenter can't update the needed Information.
i've already tried to reinstall the Client. This removes all old (deleted) deployments from the softwarecenter, but as soon as i deploy an aplication and then delete the deployment I get the same Error again.
Has anyone experienced something like this before?
Thanks in advance!
Hi All,
For certain application's where the Source media (a scripted application Package) is big with multiple folders and sub-folder's. I get an error while exporting them from SCCM 2012 R2. (we export and import applications between two environments)
Any idea why this is happening.
It looks something like this in the Export Application Wizard: (Error: The target file "C:\....\..\ is a directory. not a file.)
Thanks for the Suggestions!
I'm trying to determine if SCCM 2012 R2 can manage and deploy Hotfixes, Updates and Service packs for SQL Server 2012. Can someone please confirm that SCCM can manage this, how to download SQL Server Hotfixes, Updates and Service Packs into SCCM and where I can find instructions on setting up my MS SQL Server computers to receive SQL updates from SCCM.
Thanks.
Is it possible?
The situation is that I have AutoCAD applications to deploy, with a size hovering around 14GB. I'm using the Powershell Application Deployment Toolkit to wrap it and do some customization etc, requiring user input.
I'm making the application available to our development team, but the time between when they click 'Install' to when the user interaction part starts can be anywhere up to an hour or more due to the actual data transfer.
What I would like to do is prestage all of the data to the relevant machines BEFORE they hit the install button, that way when they are ready, it's only the actual installation that needs to occur, not the data transfer.
Any ideas? Making it required isn't an option unfortunately as the users need to be able to decide when to upgrade.
