I was trying to install the RSAT tools on a newly imaged machine at my customer today and I found an issue after I spent the time of downloading and running the tools. Per Microsoft’s download page, “To run Remote Server Administration Tools for ...[Read more]

Configuration Manager 2007 Maintenance Tasks Daily Maintenance Tasks Performing daily maintenance is important to ensure proper site operations. A daily maintenance log should be maintained to document dates that maintenance was conducted, by wh ...[Read more]

  If you’re receiving error messages in your IIS logs and it seems your packages are sitting in “Install Pending” mode or why does some of your clients receive the files and others don’t.   This is a sample error I was receiving with my client r ...[Read more]

There is a way to copy multiple packages in one single swoop to any Distribution Point in ConfigMgr (SCCM). Following these instructions and have fun! 1.       Open ConfigMgr (SCCM) Console 2.       Click on Site Database 3.       Click on Comp ...[Read more]

The following steps are how to setup and configure Dell BIOS Updates. Prepare Dell CCTK 1.       Create a folder on the ConfigMgr server for the Dell CCTK http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&re ...[Read more]

I’m working to deploy vPro with ConfigMgr (SCCM) at a client and I was about to write up each type of scenario I’ve been working on. Found this document on the Intel vPro website and to my fortunate luck, this had each one in detail along with the c ...[Read more]

When configuring the integration with ConfigMgr (SCCM) and Intel vPro. I was trying to deploy Intel vPro WebUI, I kept receiving an error when trying to log in. It was like the authentication wasn’t happening on the backend. Did anyone say logs? Nop ...[Read more]

I’m working with configuring vPro at a client’s site and for some reason the password I set wasn’t working. So I reset the password and tested it again and everything worked as plan. Now, I have 5 laptops I need to reset the AMT chip on. I searched ...[Read more]

I was having an issue with trying to deploy image via PXE at a customer. It seems everything would boot up and then all of sudden I would receive the error “0x80004005”. Luckily, I had a OSD PXE Password set before going into Task Sequence. This wa ...[Read more]

I received a question today asking me, “How long does site to site replication take?” I figured this is a good question because simply it doesn’t have one answer. Depending on type of replication, it could have as many as three or more answers. Repl ...[Read more]