If you’ve ever performed a distributed installation of Operations Manager then you’ve most likely spent some time stressing about duplicate, missing, or misconfigured SPN’s. But Blake, what’s an SPN? Wait, this isn’t TechNet! If you aren’t sure what an SPN is please check this out (Service Principle Names on TechNet). Now that we’ve…
Boundary Groups were introduced in ConfigMgr 2012 to combine boundaries together and give them one of two common purposes: Content Location Site Assignment These are the same two things that boundaries were used for in ConfigMgr 2007; however, all boundaries were used for both purposes in 2007 and there was no way to separate them…
When I am populating a data snapshot table with a set of calculations for any given month, I may in some cases blow away any existing records for that month and start with a clean slate. The only thing that bothered me was that I would end up with huge gaps in my identity keys. …
I was attempting to create a modularized approach to a set of calculations in SQL Server. The result was the dreaded “Nested stored procedure” error. I had to use stored procedures instead of functions because I was using a cursor. I figured that I could resolve this issue pretty easily if I could only pass…
After a lot of work, here’s my latest incarnation of the startup script, version 1.54: http://blog.configmgrftw.com/?page_id=349. Lots of new features since 1.03 including: Bug fixes More error checking Better and more error messages Automatic ConfigMgr client agent hotfix installation Startup delay Time stamps WinPE check Local administrator check Calling of an external script to check…
Scenario: Deploy an application using the new application deployment capabilities of ConfigMgr 2012. Criteria: Native install using EXE installer (instead of an MSI based installer) Deploy to all users in a specific AD security group Support uninstallation The first nuance to the criteria is that we are deploying the application to users. For this to…
I was deploying a SharePoint 2010 web part recently. The deployment completed, including feature activation, but when I put the part on a page, it failed with a correlation ID. The correlation ID didn’t take me far but I noticed this in my log:
My customer’s default domain and default domain controller policy were missing. The backup system was not backing up Active Directory, so there was no way to restore the files. Fortunately Microsoft provides a tool called DCGPOFIX.exe that you can run to restore these two default policies. However, you have to update the registry on the…
My bad! The reason I had trouble with the Unified Messaging/VoiceMail setup for my Lync to Phone service with Jajah is because at some point I switched my tenant domain, company.onmicrosoft.com to Shared in the Exchange Online admin portal. This single setting caused me to spend about two weeks in my free time, which is…
If you encounter an issue browsing to a site collection that causes total failure with the message shown below, follow these steps to correct the issue. This issue may present itself in these situations: It appears immediately while debugging from Visual Studio, then in all subsequent browsing to any site collection in the web application…
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