There have been a few things about this, but I just want clarification.
We have just installed SCCM 2012 R2 and are 'kind of reluctantly' using it for patching.
Is there really no way that patches can be scheduled and installed at shutdown rather then requiring the user to log off at the end of the deadline?
JC
Hi,
I have two question regarding software distribution,
I have a package with 2 different programs (For Ex: A, B).
Scenario 1: I created a mandatory(Future time) advertisement for this package using program "A" just to cache the content locally on 100 machines.(Caching is completed for 70 machines 30 in progress)
Question 1: What will be the status of package in cache if i expire the advertisement now..? Will it remain in cache for 70 machines even after expiring the advertisement till it reaches the cache size of (5 gb) or will it get deleted as soon as we expire the advertisement.?
Scenario 2: I created RAP advertisement with the same package using program B for same 100 machines with download from DP and run locally.
Question 2: Will the RAP advertisement use the same cached content from first mandatory advertisement or will it download the content again to cache...?
Please advise and let me know if you have any questions in understanding the scenario.
Thanks,
The Lightning Khan
The issue is i have created package in central and given the share path in "Data Access" inorder to distribute to primary and country office servers.
In "Data Access" share the distribution folder is enabled but the package is not available in share path. what might be the issue.
Yamini
Hi,
I have one primary site with one site server acting as my one single server for everything.
I deleted a bunch of Software Update packages in order to reclaim space on my single SCCM drive.
After deleting the packages, I looked at the SMSPKG and SMSKPKGD$ folder, and it appears the pacakge files are still there.
Is there an easy way to identify which ones were deleted? and if so, can i manually delete them?
Im looking for an easy way to do this, since the actual package was deleted in the SCCM console.
Here is a separate post which describes the problem im having, but nobody seemed to have a good answer for it ...
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/641519ee-bcad-41ee-9945-d5abe0671ff3/deleting-superseded-updates-reclaiming-disk-space-cleaning-up-package-source-updates?forum=configmgrsum
Please advise.
hey all,
i need to create an exclusion collection, this will be used for advertisements that need to be sent to all computers in our company, but will ignore the computers that we add to this collection.
ie: i send an advertisement to my "all computers" collection, but the advertisement skips the computers that are in my "exclusion" collection.
we have a number of these setup already; the "all computers" collection is the parent collection, which contains two sub-collections for each exclusion scenario, the actual "exclusion" collection with the computers to be skipped, and the "all computers minus <exclusion>" collection, which would be the resulting list of all computers without the computers to be skipped. make sense? :)
i set one of these up a long time ago, and have forgotten how to. i see a number of posts regarding how to use SQL statements to make this happen, but the way i did it didn't require SQL lines to be added, i believe it was all done through the context menus in the ConfigMgr console.
can anyone help point me in the right direction?
thanks!
I am having an issue with package distribution to sccm clients where clients stop downloading the package without any errors or warnings. and report a waiting on contents status.
Initially, I noticed the issue when deploying Office 2007 to clients where I setup the advertisement for that package to start at an earlier time than the mandatory time to precache the contents. Monitoring the advertisement status report, I noticed 10% of the clients show waiting on contents status, did random spot check, and the package folder in the cache was either there with no files just folder structure, or it had BIT.TMP files.
The DatatransferService.log, ContentTransferManager.log, CAS, Exec, and the package/advert related log files didn't have any errors
On few clients, restarting the SMS Host service did the trick and triggered the download again, on others that didn't work; however, going to run advertised programs and manually selecting and running the program fixed the issue, on a third small group, reinstalling the client made it work.
The assumption was, the package was too big, and network hick up might have caused that to occur, or IIS on the DPs had issues and was interrupted, or the client had bad BITS install and failed downloading this large package. Later on, I found that this occurs with every deployment, small and large, and regardless of the way the advertisement is set up.
Any suggestions or assistance is very appreciated
I'm running a task sequence consisting of 3 separate command lines. The task sequence uninstalls the Tivoli Monitoring Agent using a customized vendor script (uninst.cmd). The task sequence is as follows:
Group - Uninstall Tivoli 6.2.3 FP3 (run only if the Tivoli agent v. 6.3.2 FP3 is installed)
1 - Create log file - (Command line) CMD.exe /c ECHO %DATE% %TIME% Starting Tivoli 6.2.3 FP3 uninstallation.>C:\Logs\Tivoli623FP3x-uninstall.log
2 - Log the current working directory - (Command line) CMD.exe /c ECHO %DATE% %TIME% Working directory: [%CD%].>>C:\Logs\Tivoli623FP3x-uninstall.log
3 - Run the agent uninstallation script - (Command line) CMD.EXE /C %CD%\UnInstall.cmd
It is our standard practice to generate step-by-step log files for all task sequences in addition to the usual log files generated by SCCM. This allows us to track the actual progress of the task sequence and pinpoint where possible errors occur.
The task sequence advertisement is set to download all package contents locally before running and use a remote DP if no local DP is available. I'm using SCCM 2007 R2. The 2 target servers are running Windows 2012 R2 servers.
Prior to running the task sequence, I've tested the whole sequence manually by running each command line from within the target servers and encountered no errors. The problem appeared after I started advertising the task sequence. The task sequence runs the first 2 tasks without an issue but fails when it attempts to execute the third command line to run the uninstall script file.
When I checked the installation log files in the target servers, I found the following:
- Thu 10/02/2014 15:53:17.86 Starting Tivoli 6.2.3 FP3 uninstallation.
- Thu 10/02/2014 15:53:18.14 Working directory: [C:\windows\system32].
The working directory is set to [C:\windows\system32] instead of the SCCM cache directory [C:\Windows\SysWOW64\CCM\Cache] where the package contents are downloaded.
I also checked the execmgr.log files in both target servers and found that the working directory is getting set to the system32 folder:
- Successfully prepared command line "C:\windows\SysWOW64\CCM\TSLauncher.exe"
- Command line = "C:\windows\SysWOW64\CCM\TSLauncher.exe", Working Directory = C:\windows\system32\
Because of this, the command line to run the uninstallation script is failing.
I have some questions -
1 - What could be the reason why the working directory is set to C:\windows\system32 ?
2 - How do I make the task sequence point the working directory to the SCCM cache folder?
Thanks.
Ramon
Hi All,
Can someone share the information that how to get the command line options or commands for any .exe file to install it on the machines using SCCM 2007 R2.
Rgs,
I've just discovered user based software deployment and it works great.
I wanted to figure out a way to limit the software installs to machines that don't already have it installed.
With computer based deployment this is easy. I just create a collection query that looks for an entry in add remove programs or looks for the presence of an executable and make that a sub selected query for workstations that are not in the sub query.
But how do you do that when your targeting users or groups instead of workstations?
hey all,
i'm seeing this error a lot, and haven't had much luck determining the cause.
Last Status Message ID Last Status Message Name 10057 Program failed (download failed - content mismatch)
anyone have any ideas about this error? i've been troubleshooting it for some time (recreating packages/programs, updating/recreating distribution points), nothing seems to work. i've tried pretty much all of the suggestions that i've come across.
it's a pretty inconsistent issue; i see it happen for almost every deployment i do- the error happens more with some than others. i'm guessing it's an issue with the package files getting downloaded to the workstation, but haven't really found a consistent"culprit" in my research.
any would be greatly appreciated!
Hi,
There is this small script i am attempting to distribute and have just created the package and advertised it to a collection.
It's been nearly 30 minutes now and not one PC has recieved it. I did run machine policy retrieval and evaluation policy. It's as if like the advertisement does not exist!
offersum.log has the below entry and nothing more. Please let me know if there are other logs I can check for this.
Info>: Dequeued a status message from the Offer Status Queue: ID=3900 SEV=I LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_OFFER_MANAGER" SYS=SERVER SITE=*** PID=2580 TID=4032 GMTDATE=Fri Sep 12 09:30:29.856 2014 ISTR0="GetDatVersions" ISTR1="" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=1 AID0=401 AVAL0="***201E9" $$<SMS_OFFER_STATUS_SUMMARIZER><Fri Sep 12 11:30:39.856 2014 W. Europe Daylight Time><thread=4064 (0xFE0)>Hello,
I am facing a strange behaviour of using task sequences for software distribution.
in order to update existing clients a task sequence was created. (this procedure was successfully used over the years). The newly created task sequence is a copy of the an older successfully used one.
This time the task sequence stops and none of the approx. 25 steps is applied. Even steps which have been successful don't work anymore. (0x80008014)
This is what I have done:
I searched the internet but couldn't find any hints what it could be.
It seems to me that this problem is connected to the new ts. But even creating a new one don't solve this issue.
Any ideas are welcome,
Thanks
Andy
Hello,
I am facing a strange problem.
The environment is a SCCM 2007 SP2 system.
I am using Task sequences for many years now. For OS deployment and deploying multi application updates.
packages / programs are configured with admin rights and whether or "no user is logged on"
I integrated these packages /programs in a os deployment task. This was successful.
When using the same packages / programs in a task sequence for deploying these software packages the ts faisl.
Checking exexmgr.log I can see the following message "TS Step required to run in user context, targeted to user or requiring user input. Rejecting." Which I don't understand at all.
I stripped down the ts to only one application to install. The error is the same.
In other logs I found these error messages:
Failed to delete registry value HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SMS\Task Sequence\System Health Agent. Error code 0x80070002
failed to invoke execution manager to install software for package id
Í checked the SCCM client on the SCCM server and the one which is installed. Both are version 4.00.6487.2000.
Thanks for your feedback on this,
Thanks,
Andy
There have been a few things about this, but I just want clarification.
We have just installed SCCM 2012 R2 and are 'kind of reluctantly' using it for patching.
Is there really no way that patches can be scheduled and installed at shutdown rather then requiring the user to log off at the end of the deadline?
JC
Hi,
I have two question regarding software distribution,
I have a package with 2 different programs (For Ex: A, B).
Scenario 1: I created a mandatory(Future time) advertisement for this package using program "A" just to cache the content locally on 100 machines.(Caching is completed for 70 machines 30 in progress)
Question 1: What will be the status of package in cache if i expire the advertisement now..? Will it remain in cache for 70 machines even after expiring the advertisement till it reaches the cache size of (5 gb) or will it get deleted as soon as we expire the advertisement.?
Scenario 2: I created RAP advertisement with the same package using program B for same 100 machines with download from DP and run locally.
Question 2: Will the RAP advertisement use the same cached content from first mandatory advertisement or will it download the content again to cache...?
Please advise and let me know if you have any questions in understanding the scenario.
Thanks,
The Lightning Khan
The issue is i have created package in central and given the share path in "Data Access" inorder to distribute to primary and country office servers.
In "Data Access" share the distribution folder is enabled but the package is not available in share path. what might be the issue.
Yamini