I had a problem with my PSP (PXE Service Point) on a Windows 2008 R2 box. Every time I restarted the server the service wouldn’t start (Which is not good). The error only happens when I add the PXE Service Point role in the Configuration Manager console, without the role my WDS service is starting like a charm. The errors in the event viewer First error An error occurred while trying to initialize provider SMSPXE loaded from C:\Windows\SysWOW64\CCM\x64\smspxe.dll. If the provider is marked as critical the Windows Deployment Services server will be shutdown. Error Information: 0x4005 Source: WDSPXE Second Error [...]

In this post I will explain how you can integrate SCUPdates from Shavlik from A to Z. I’ll focus the post on these topics. Installation of the product Richness of the update catalog Configuration Manager integration Approving Updates Deploying Updates Reporting How to get started Installation of the product SCUPdates requires that you have installed and configured Microsoft System Center Updates Publisher (SCUP). In my test lab I already use SCUP to monitor and deploy updates from different hardware vendors like HP and Dell. For those of you who hasn’t yet played with SCUP I strongly advise you to have [...]

In the following weeks I will blog about the some of the different 3rd. party software update solution we can integrate with Configuration Manager. I will focus my articles on: Installation of the product Richness of the update catalog Configuration Manager integration Approving Updates Deploying Updates Reporting How to get started First I will test drive Secunia, a world-leading provider of Vulnerability Intelligence. Secunia has been around since 2002 and is most known for its award winning product CSI - Corporate Software Inspector. The installation Secunia requires a few components that are all easy to install and configure: The CSI [...]

Just downloaded a few HP Bios updates with ConfigMgr 2007 and SCUP 4.5 today. Being an old football player I have often heard from my coach that I should “give 100%”. In my world 100% is pretty much but apparently not when you are downloading HP updates. 220 percent - not bad :-)

A new version of ConfigMgr. 2007 toolkit is released, more info http://scug.dk/blogs/configurationmanager/archive/2010/04/30/new-version-of-the-configmgr-2007-toolkit.aspx

Most of you already have knowledge about the power of SCUP used together with ConfigMgr. System Center Custom Updates (SCUP) gives you the possibilities to include 3rd. party updates in your normal Configuration Manager software update deployments. One of the downsizes to SCUP is that it requires high level of knowledge about each update you want to distribute. Shavlik now offers ConfigMgr. Customers to subscribe to a very rich catalog of 3rd. party updates. Read more about the solution http://www.shavlik.com/scupdates.aspx and to see full list of updates supported - http://forum.shavlik.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=15901

When configuring software updates with ConfigMgr. one of the challenges that I run into the most; is hiding software update notifications from some clients while allowing a full notification on other computers. You can solve this challenge in two different ways. Hide all software update deployments and create a package that will display notifications on some clients Allow software update notifications and create a package that will remove the notification on some clients. Configure the Software Update Client Agent In this example I will allow software updates notifications on the agent.  Then i will create a package that removes the [...]

As some of you might already be aware of; MS10-015 (KB977165) might cause a BSOD. As far as I have read the problem is not the update itself, but caused by an existing infection on the computer.  For updates on this issue be sure to check - http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/11/restart-issues-after-installing-ms10-015.aspx

Its Friday the weekend is coming up and what I don’t want is a day filled errors . On the other hand, errors can be a cool way to start the weekend – if you get them solved! The first 10 minutes at the customer site went according to my plan. I got some coffee and began to distribute a new package. The coffee was black and strong (which is good) but my package never made it to the distribution point (which is not good). The error The status in the console was stuck in Install Pending. I looked at [...]

Looking at the compliance reports I see that most of updates are installing ok but some are constantly saying “Waiting for another installation to complete” The updates won’t install and end-users are constantly getting an error saying the another installation process is already running. It’s not another running process causing the problem, so restarting services won’t help. Information is stored in WMI and most likely is caused by an earlier installation that failed. To fix the problem – two solutions The drastic one – Repair WMI Log on to the client and stop the Windows Management Instrumentation Service – WMI [...]

Just spend a few hours this morning troubleshooting a new Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 R2 installation.  I started to search the Internet for a solution and didn’t really find any good blog entries. Found a few similar errors posted in the Technet forums and thought I would write a post on the subject. The errors After configuring the Management Point I started to receive these errors: Sitecomp.log: Component [SMS_MP_CONTROL_MANAGER] could not install correctly on server Servername. WebDAV on the Windows Longhorn server is not configured correctly. MPsetup.log <12-30-2009 09:00:07>  WebDAV settings is not setup appropriately <12-30-2009 09:00:07>  [Allow property queries [...]

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Adobe has just informed about a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader 9.2 and earlier versions  - which is well… all Adobe Reader versions :-) An update to fix the vulnerability will be released mid January 2010. You can read the bulletin here - http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-07.html Disable Adobe Reader JavaScript manually 1. Launch Adobe Reader. 2. Select Edit>Preferences 3. Select the JavaScript Category 4. Uncheck the 'Enable Acrobat JavaScript' option 5. Click OK Disable Adobe Reader JavaScript with a configmgr. package 1. Create bat file with this entry reg add "HKCU\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\JSPrefs" /v bEnableJS /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /F 2. Copy the [...]