For a recent customer I was going through all of the requirements to implement DirectAccess. One that I stumbled on a bit was that DirectAccess requires DFS-R replication but I wasn’t certain how to verify what replication type was in
What’s my ConfigMgr version: 2012 SP2 or 2012 R2 SP1?
I’ve been installing a few lab and production ConfigMgr environments recently and found a little quirk with the versioning to go along with the service pack madness / confusion of the 2012 SP2 / 2012 R2 SP1 release. Here’s the
BITS error 0x80200013 during ConfigMgr client installation
When attempting to install the ConfigMgr / SCCM client on a few remote computers, the installation failed (more like stalled out) when ccmsetup.exe tried to download the full client binary files. The download couldn’t complete and the following error was
ConfigMgr OSD and the HP Virtual Install Disk
A recent customer was having an issue using ConfigMgr (SCCM) to deploy Windows on their new HP ProLiant Gen9 servers. Their existing hardware models and virtual machines worked fine, but the new HP Gen9 models were failing with the following
Unexpected reboot upgrading ConfigMgr Admin Console
Yesterday I upgraded my ConfigMgr 2012 R2 lab to SP1 and encountered a small bit of trouble. During the SP installation the Admin Console failed to uninstall; during installation the MSI performed an unexpected reboot. Scenario The primary site server
ConfigMgr 2012 Service Pack 2 confusion
On May 14, 2015, Microsoft released a Service Pack for ConfigMgr 2012 (awesome!). There has been some confusion as can be seen on the original announcement blog comments and the details of that confusion are laid out by Jason Sandys
Domain Controller HTTP Redirect
First, I’m not a networking guy so if this steps on some best practice please comment below on a better solution. For a recent customer, a new domain (we’ll say contoso.com) was setup for both internal and external access. The
Unable to find LiteTouch.wsf
Not long ago I was using MDT 2013 to develop a few images. Deploying from the server, whether booting from PXE, CD/DVD, or a USB drive worked fine. However, when I created a stand-alone ISO and extracted it to a