Author Archives: Cameron Fuller

On a configuration manager 2007 deployment, I ran into a situation where we had split the network into two-halves. One half was controlled by our IT organization, the other half was controlled by another IT organization. We were deploying ConfigMgr 2007 into the environment, and had defined our AD sites and services so that we…

Looking for a quick way to remotely uninstall the Configuration Manager agent from a system? Try this: Psexec \\computer –u domain\user c:\windows\system32\ccmsetup\ccmsetup.exe /uninstall A successful result looks like: C:\windows\system32\ccmsetup\ccmsetup.exe exited on (computer) with error code 0. The PsTools are available for download at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649.aspx. I have found these to be invaluable when remotely performing actions…

During debugging of ConfigMgr deployment, I started tracking down specific reasons why some of the clients were not deploying. This list is an attempt to be comprehensive of gotcha’s to be aware of when deploying ConfigMgr agents based upon what I saw during my deployments: Site boundaries – If a client does not exist within…