While upgrading workstations from SMS client to SCCM client, I ran into several workstations having WMI errors in the CCMSETUP.LOG file, specifically; “MSI: Warning 25001. Setup failed due to unexpected circumstance. The error code is 80041001” I was able to resolve this by following the process outlined below. Uninstall the SCCM client by running…
I was tasked with migrating Rights Management Services ( RMS ) to Active Directory Rights Management Services ( AD RMS ) for a client. The old RMS server was Windows 2003 with RMS installed and in production. That same server also hosted the RMS database. The new AD RMS server was of course Windows 2008…
Seeing as my last post was on how to incorporate risk assessments into schedule design, I decided to post information on how to create buffers in Microsoft Project Professional. Note that this post is not the definitive guide to incorporate risk-loaded schedules in Microsoft Project, but instead represents concepts of how to incorporate risk…
A new feature of Configuration Manager 2007 R2 is the ability to define a Task Sequence Variable on a Collection or individual resource without a value. Then when the Task Sequence initiates on a system, a dialog box is presented where you can set the value of the variable. A quick example is in order…
This is a blog post that I’ve been kicking around for a couple of years, and is based on a demonstration that I often do in my Scheduling classes. Note that this posting is meant more to demonstrate a concept within the tool, and as it is based on a customized third party macro,…
As Microsoft Gold Partner and National Systems Integrator (NSI) Catapult enters in all kinds of contests for recognition with Microsoft. Most recently we were awarded the Partner of the Year award for Custom Development Solutions, Web Development. We are also competing in a Windows 7 video contest. You can bop over to Digital Forum TV…
The Trial Licensing issue that was introduced by SharePoint SP2 has been resolved by the product team. If you are affected (or wish to avoid the problem) you can install the fix before or after you deploy SharePoint SP2. The details are available on the SharePoint Team Blog.
Not all classes in the SharePoint API are CLS-compliant types. While using a language like C#.NET it does not matter since the .NET framework knows how to work with these classes. Working in PowerShell is a completely different story. PowerShell does not differentiate between the various cases of names of objects, properties, or methods. This…
Overview The following instructions are for replacing the current default WSS Site Template with a newly created template. As with any set of instructions that involves editing system file names or running commands, it is strongly recommended that this first be practiced in a test or development environment and that the current system be backed…
We just found out that Catapult Systems won a 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Award. WOW..! We’ve been trying to win one of these awards for years. Catapult’s specific award was for "Custom Development Solutions, Web Development – Partner of the Year" for one of our Houston clients called Wisenbaker Building Services. If you’re interested,…
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