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Correct – SCCM 2012 does not support SQL Mirroring and can breake a SCCM SP1 upgrade

As stated here SQL mirroring is not supported for the ConfigMgr database. However a technet article do not stop all database administrors’s from enabling the setting anyway believing that it will not cause any issues – but boy it does. SQL mirroring will break the SCCM SP1 upgrade process and leave the primary site server in a non-functional mode where a site restore is the only way back. The issue can be found in the ConfigMgrSetup.log file. USE [cm_ps1]; ALTER DATABASE [cm_ps1] SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE;  $$<Configuration Manager Setup><01-11-2013 10:38:29.887+00><thread=4136 (0x1028)> *** [42000][1468][Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]The operation [...]

By |2013-01-13T10:29:19+01:00januar 13th, 2013|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info|5 Comments
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New Agents will not re-assign to ConfigMgr 2012 Site

Many are waiting for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 before they actually go from ConfigMgr 2007 to ConfigMgr 2012. If you for some reason have a Group Policy that assigns clients to a specified Site code you will hit a barrier migrating your clients with the new Agent. The installation itself will go fine but it stops there. The Group Policy tattoo’s the Assigned Site Code locally on the machines that are hit by the policy. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Mobile Client] "GPRequestedSiteAssignmentCode"="PS1" What you can do from here is either change the Site Code in the same, or a new Group Policy hitting the migrated [...]

By |2012-12-11T14:23:06+01:00december 11th, 2012|Configuration Manager (SCCM)|5 Comments
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Set-SCOMLicense : Requested registry access is not allowed

  My colleague Kåre has already blogged about how to set the Operations Manager 2012 license, to be read here. However, I have experienced this command fails – even when running from an elevated Operations Manager Shell – giving error about registry access:   Solution: Instead of spending hours messing up the the security in registry, simply run Windows Powershell as Administrator, and import the Operations Manager module, by using the “Import-Module OperationsManager” cmdlet. When this has been imported, run the Set-SCOMLicense command and you should succeed:

By |2012-12-11T13:38:37+01:00december 11th, 2012|Operations Manager (SCOM)|18 Comments
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Role Based Administration change in ConfigMgr SP1

RBA or Role Based Administration is one of the many new features in ConfigMgr 2012. It’s a very powerful feature and has already helped lots of customers minimizing the need for having multiple primary sites. One annoying fact in RTM is that all collections (users and devices) shows up when running a report. This has changed in Service Pack 1 which makes the RBA feature even more powerful. In this example I have a user (DskAdmin) who is member of the Desktop Admins group in Active Directory. Desktop admins must all be granted Application Administrator permissions and allowed to work [...]

By |2012-12-10T16:16:53+01:00december 10th, 2012|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info, Security, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)|Kommentarer lukket til Role Based Administration change in ConfigMgr SP1
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First look at the Secunia CSI integration with Configuration Manager 2012

A few years ago I wrote a blog posts on Microsoft SCUP and Secunia CSI 5.0. Back then my conclusion was that Secunia had a superb security database but required a custom agent and didn’t have an easy Configuration Manager Console integration. With the latest release of Secunia CSI those “obstacles” are removed and the solution looks very promising. In this, my first test drive of the product, I will see how quickly I can install the solution and start patching my environment. The installation CSI requires that you first install the CSI administrator console and then the CSI SCCM [...]

By |2012-11-30T11:27:18+01:00november 30th, 2012|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info, Security|2 Comments
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Powershell to change Resolution State in Operations Manager 2012

A powershell sample used at a customer for semi-automatically changing the Resolution States:   Import-Module OperationsManager $Alerts = get-scomalert -ResolutionState 0   if ($Alerts) { foreach($Alert in $Alerts) { $newState = $null switch -wildcard ($Alert.Description) { "*Active directory*" { $newState = 10 } "*Exchange*" { $newState = 20 } "*DNS*" { $newState = 30 } "*Cisco*" { $newState = 100 } "*HP*" { $newState = 110 } "*Printer*" { $newState = 120 } "*EMC*" { $newState = 130 } "*RunAs*" { $newState = 200 } }   switch -wildcard ($Alert.Name) { "Cannot start SQL Server Service Broker on Database" { [...]

By |2017-08-22T13:05:40+01:00november 13th, 2012|Automation, Operations Manager (SCOM), Powershell|3 Comments
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New Application/Tool to create Health Rollups of groups, Classes and Distributed Applications

In the past couple of years I have seen how companies are dealing with presenting their Services, Distributed Applications, Multi-Tired Applications; Many names for the same object. This Diagram Creation has often been a bit difficult, either you could create a group and use the group in Distributed Apps, which could give you a possibility of enabling the rollup and let the group be green, yellow, red or you could export the Management Pack after the creation and change the content  there are some good blogs around. And now for the Challenge of creating a nice Diagram with servers in [...]

By |2012-11-08T13:13:31+01:00november 8th, 2012|Operations Manager (SCOM)|6 Comments
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Could not retrieve a valid database or server scenario for this install

A costumer of mine had an OpsMgr breakdown, due to misconfiguration of run as accounts. We got the first management server up and running again, but I couldn’t get the second to run. I then removed the Operations Manager installation completely and restarted. I logged back on, opened the setup as administrator to install the management role again, but I got the following error:     Could not retrieve a valid database or server scenario for this install – What?   Even though I was logged on as administrator, the most logical explanation would be insufficient privileges. So, I created [...]

By |2012-10-23T12:07:02+01:00oktober 23rd, 2012|Operations Manager (SCOM)|5 Comments
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Delete OpsMgr 2007 Management Group information

  Scenario: - A running OpsMgr 2007 environment with agents – to be degraded. - New OpsMgr 2012 environment without agents. You start pushing agents from OpsMgr 2012, to the same servers which are monitored in OpsMgr 2007. - You successfully install the agent on all servers, which means the agents now report to both OpsMgr 2007 and 2012. You then uninstall all the agents from OpsMgr 2007. This works fine, but the problem is that the management group information for the 2007 environment doesn’t disappear: I digged into the registry, where i could see that these keys are not [...]

By |2017-08-22T13:04:58+01:00oktober 19th, 2012|Operations Manager (SCOM)|Kommentarer lukket til Delete OpsMgr 2007 Management Group information
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Operations Manager Web Console Unavailable

  All of a sudden, I received this error at a costumer site. At first I was thinking that it was simply because the web site has stopped, or another IIS-related thing, but all everything was running. I even restarted the web site and the IIS service. But, this was in fact related to framework, and the solution was simply to open a Command Prompt as Administrator and run the following command: c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe –iru     The command finished in a matter of seconds, the error disappeared from Operations Manager right away and the web console worked fine again. When [...]

By |2017-08-22T13:04:49+01:00oktober 19th, 2012|Operations Manager (SCOM)|3 Comments
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ConfigMgr Cloud Distribution Points

One of the new features in ConfigMgr SP1 is Cloud based distribution points. ConfigMgr SP1 clients can use the CDP as a fallback solution when the requested content is not available at an on-premise distribution point (the new term for the “old fashion DP”). It is not a replacement for Internet Based Client Management. The benefit of having cloud distribution points are: You can easily create them You can easily add more resources if the scenarios where extra bandwidth is needed e.g. when upgrading to Office 2013 worldwide Nice fallback solution Clients will fallback to the Cloud DP if the [...]

By |2012-10-16T13:59:45+01:00oktober 16th, 2012|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info|11 Comments
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Child domain objects are not Discovered in SCCM

In most cases people have configured their User, System or Group discovery correctly by adding an LDAP path that SCCM will start discovering from. Could be an OU [LDAP://OU=Computers,DC=Domain,DC=Local] or even the domain root [LDAP://DC=Domain,DC=Local]. “But, but! We are missing several objects and they seem to be residing on one or more of the child domains!” Fear not! SCCM have logs, and logs will always help us when we are in dire need of guidance.. Browse through: adsgdis.log (Group Discovery) adsysdis.log (System Discovery) adusrdis.log (User Discovery) Somewhere in these logs you will find what might be the culprit causing problems. [...]

By |2012-10-12T15:27:22+01:00oktober 12th, 2012|Configuration Manager (SCCM)|2 Comments
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SMSPXE.Log in SCCM 2012

A commonly asked question the forums these days is – “anybody seen the SMSPXE.log?” With ConfigMgr SP1 the log is placed on the distribution point in <X>\SMS_DP$\SMS\Logs where X is the location of the contentlibrary. The log files contains a bit more useful information compared to Cm07 and CM2012 RTM. Below is a snippet of the log file where an unknown computer performs a PXE boot and runs an “advertisement” (what ever that is”) Client lookup reply: <ClientIDReply><Identification Unknown="0" ItemKey="0" ServerName="" ServerRemoteName=""><Machine><ClientID/><NetbiosName/></Machine></Identification></ClientIDReply>     SMSPXE    10/11/2012 5:35:33 AM    5640 (0x1608) 00:15:5D:01:75:20, B9291B40-5182-4CAB-BFFF-ADF05C1C4663: device is not in the database.    SMSPXE    10/11/2012 5:35:33 [...]

By |2012-10-11T17:10:10+01:00oktober 11th, 2012|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info|3 Comments
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Mastering SCCM 2012 SP1 training

System Center 2012 SP1 just released, and it’s not a minor release. I have been working with SMS since 1996 and I haven’t seen anything like this in the past. If you need training on Configuration Manager 2012 I highly recommend that you attend the correct class and it must be a class where the material is based on the latest Service Pack. There a huge changes in Service Pack 1 and we will make sure that you learn about all of them. Our Mastering Configuration Manager 2012 class has been running with great success since May 2011 and is [...]

By |2012-10-04T12:50:04+01:00oktober 4th, 2012|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Training|2 Comments
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Updated version of the Package source Changer

As described in this blog post one of the many task involved in migrating from CM07 to CM12 is updating the package source in your packages. A new version of the tool has just been released with new cool features to make your migration experience easier and less painful. Installing and configuring the tool Download the latest version here and start the tool on the CM12 server. When the tool is launched click Configuration, specify the name of the Configuration Manager 2012 site server and click Save.  Click List, this will retrieve a list of all the source locations used [...]

By |2012-10-03T08:17:01+01:00oktober 3rd, 2012|Configuration Manager (SCCM), General info|8 Comments
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Naming Conventions in SCOM 2012

During many Operations Manager installations at customers two things really struck me – the lack of naming conventions and good coffee – You guys have really good coffee machines which for sure make a consultant daily life easier and even better. Back to Naming Conventions – SCOM is just easier to maintain when you have good references aka Naming’s for all of your Object Reference. Sometimes companies writes a 28 pages long documents about the naming’s – like Microsoft’s (From MSDN) pretty good explanations where one of the first statement is: Do not use Hungarian Notations, - Ohhh no - [...]

By |2012-10-02T21:43:50+01:00oktober 2nd, 2012|Operations Manager (SCOM)|1 Kommentar
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Convert a management pack to XML / unseal a management pack

  In my previous blog I wrote a step by step guide on how to seal a management pack. Say you have a custom created management pack, containing groups and such, which is sealed. Now you need to add another server to this group, which isn’t possible because it is sealed. To unseal you need to run a pretty simple command and a Powershell script, and here’s how: 1. On your management server, create a folder named MpToXml on the C-drive. 2. Copy the sealed management pack you want to unseal into this folder. 3. Create a .ps1 (Powershell) script [...]

By |2017-08-22T13:04:36+01:00september 25th, 2012|Operations Manager (SCOM), Service Manager (SCSM)|Kommentarer lukket til Convert a management pack to XML / unseal a management pack
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OpsMgr: seal a management pack step by step

Sealing a management pack is fairly easy (everything’s easy when you’re good at it, i know), but this can be a little tricky the first couple of times. Follow this guide and you should not encounter any problems! To get started you need to download sn.exe and all referenced management packs. For OpsMgr 2007, these can be found in the Program Files\Operations Manager folder. For OpsMgr 2012, these can be found on the installation media. I have uploaded sn.exe and the management packs you need. Download them from here. It is far easiest seal management packs from your management server, as you need [...]

By |2012-09-24T20:55:10+01:00september 24th, 2012|Operations Manager (SCOM)|10 Comments
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System Center Operations Manager 2012 Agent installation failed on a HP EVA Management server

If you are having trouble to install your SCOM Agent on a server where you have installed the HP eva management tools, Insight Manager etc. – first try to stop the Pegasus WMI Mapper – it seams like there are some kind of exclusive locks on WMI from the Open Pegasus WMI Mapper – which affect the SCOM Agent Installation. Stop This one, and run the Agent installation again (Or discovery)   See you Kåre

By |2012-09-19T09:46:50+01:00september 19th, 2012|Operations Manager (SCOM)|Kommentarer lukket til System Center Operations Manager 2012 Agent installation failed on a HP EVA Management server
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Coretech Package Source Changer 0.9.1.0 Beta

[download id="115"]   UPDATE: New version uploaded fixing a bug in list and improving error logging. Please send any logs if your application crashes This post describes the tool and configuration. Blog post by Kent Agerlund, describing how to use it in your environment https://blog.ctglobalservices.com/kea/updated-version-of-the-package-source-changer/ 1. Introduction   As we start migrating from CM2007 to CM2012 one of the requirements is that the package source used for packages must be a UNC. we have seen many site installations where the package source is either a local source on the site server or a UNC pointing to the site server. In either [...]

By |2012-09-11T14:25:23+01:00september 11th, 2012|Configuration Manager (SCCM), Tools|29 Comments
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