Installing SCCM 2012 SP1 Secondary Site with a Pre-Configured SQL 2012 Instance
Over the last week, I’ve been re-installing my SCCM lab environment to SCCM 2012 SP1. I’m using Windows Server 2012 as the base OS for all site system roles and all database engines and SQL reporting server run on SQL 2012. I got stuck few days ago when I was building my first secondary site. [...]
Passed MCTS for SCCM 2012 Exam today
Around 8-9 months ago, a friend of mine gave me a copy of beta version of trainer’s handbooks for Microsoft course 10747A (Administering SCCM 2012) and 10748A (Deploying SCCM 2012). I normally don’t read any Microsoft course materials as I always found better books out in the market. When I was given these books, there [...]
My Observation on SCCM Clients BITS Settings
Yesterday, while we were reviewing the SCCM (2007 R3) client BITS settings at work, we (my team) have some interesting findings with SCCM client’s BITS settings. We found when the BITS bandwidth throttling settings are configured for a SCCM primary site. SCCM clients get the policy and write the settings into Windows local policy: SCCM [...]
SCCM 2012 Log Parser: cmtrace.exe
In my opinion, THE most used utility (other than SCCM console) for any SCCM administrators / engineers would have to be trace32.exe. Back in SMS and SCCM 2007 days, trace32.exe comes with the SCCM Toolkit, which contains a bunch of other tools. Speaking of my own experience, out of all the tools provided by the [...]
Installing SCCM 2012 RTM Secondary Site using A Pre-Installed SQL Express 2008 R2 Instance
Since System Center 2012 was RTM’d few days ago, I have started updating / migrating my home environment. After I migrated my 2 Hyper-V servers from VMM 2008 R2 to VMM 2012, I have started building a brand new SCCM 2012 environment so I can migrate SCCM 2007 to it. My plan is to install [...]
SCCM Site Systems and Components Summarizer Reports
I received an email today from someone who downloaded my SCCM Health Check Script 3.5. He asked me if I can help to modify the script to only display Site Systems and Components status. I thought this can be easily achieved by creating few simple reports inside SCCM. If you are running SCCM 2007 R3 [...]
PowerShell Script: Remove All Packages From A SCCM Distribution Point
Often, SCCM administrators found packages still assigned to distribution points that no longer exist. There are scripts available to remove these “orphaned” package distributions via SMS Provider. i.e. This one called DPClean.vbs from TechNet Blog: Removing a retired DP from all your packages. It was written for SMS 2003. I’m not sure if SMS 2003 [...]
PowerShell Script: Get SCCM Management Point server name from AD
I wrote this function as a part of a script that I’m working on. it searches AD for the management point server name for a particular SCCM site: Note: This function uses another function called Get-AllDomains, which I’ve blogged before here: http://blog.tyang.org/2011/08/05/powershell-function-get-alldomains-in-a-forest/ So make sure you include BOTH functions in your script.