SCCM Client looking at old Secondary Site

Recently I removed a secondary site from SCCM and created a DP for that site under a different Secondary site.  Clients all of a sudden stopped talking with SCCM.  I found out that in System Management in ADSI, the old Secondary Site was still listed.

After removing the old Secondary site from ADSI, and forcing a machine policy refresh on the clients, they were then able to get software installations.

Installing SCCM R2 Hotfix KB977384

I was having issues installing the SCCM 2007 R2 Hotfix KB977384 so I could upgrade to SCCM 2007 R3.

The installation would fail stating it ended prematurely.  After right-clicking on the .MSI and selecting Install from the context menu the hotfix installed without issue.

Large SCCM Reports giving HTTP 500 Error

If your SCCM infrastructure and clients are in the thousands, this fix might come in handy for you.  When looking at some reports there can be thousands of lines of output and the default ASP Buffering Limit is set too low.  To fix this we need to increase the limit.

1. Launch IIS Manager

2. Select the server that you want to make this change to.

1. Note: If you don’t want this change to affect all sites on the server, select the Default Web Site

3. Double-click on ASP.

4. Make sure “Enable Buffering” is set to True.

5. Under Limit properties the default value is 4Mb or 4194304 bytes. I expanded this to 6Mb or 6291456 bytes and it fixed the issue.

6. Click on Apply in the Right pane.

7. Open up server manager, expand the roles and select “Web Server (IIS)”

8. On the right side select “Restart” to restart the IIS services.

Install the SCCM Client via Command Line

The following command line will install the SCCM client.

\\<SCCMSERVER>\<CCMSETUPSHARE>\ccmsetup.exe /MP:<SCCMSERVER.FQDN> SMSSITECODE=ABC FSP=<SCCMSERVER.FQDN> SLP=<SCCMSERVER.FQDN> SMSCACHE=<LOCATION OF LOCAL CACHE>

Expand HP Write Filter Past Maximum

The HP Write Filter only allows for up to 64Mb.  By modifying the registry administrators can set the write filter to any size they would like.  Make sure not to exceed the amount of memory on the client.  The value will want to be changed to decimal and is noted in bytes.  My example shows how to expand the write filter to 115Mb (115*1024*1024 = 120586240).

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlSet001\Services\Ramdrive\Parameter.
Set to decimal value of 120586240

Setup HP Thin Clients with SCCM 2007 using XPembedded

The following will show you how to setup a T5720 thin client to work with SCCM as well as using the captured data image.  This process can be used with the T5730 series as well.  Josh and I have worked on this for a few months now and we finally figured out the right combination of VBScripts and cleaning of the hard drive to get this all to work how we wanted for our corporate environment.

Visit Josh’s blog: http://joshuasmueller.wordpress.com/

NOTE:  I do not support any of the scripts, but give a base of what I have implemented.  Any changes are done at your own risk.

Some of these customizations can be changed based on your environment, I have made this post as a reminder for myself as to what I all did to get these thin clients running.

Comments, Questions, and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

SCCM General – Organizational Branding

Originally created by a coworker: http://joshuasmueller.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/sccm-general-organizational-branding/

What does this do?

This may be obvious for some but I have had enough questions to post it.  You can add your organization’s name or message for deployments (see screenshot) under the Computer Client Agent Properties found within Site Management\Site\Site Settings\Client Agents.  This is not like a company logo but it still ensures that your End-Users know that the deployments are coming from IT.

SCCM Network Utilization – BITS Throttling

Originally created by a coworker: http://joshuasmueller.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/sccm-network-utilization-bits-throttling/.

What does this do?
If you are looking to throttle SCCM’s WAN traffic an option is to throttle BITS if you do not have the traffic throttled on your network infrastructure.  Server-to-Server transfers use BITS which is only aware of it’s local Ethernet connection.