February 20, 2011

Mastering SCCM - Step by step guide for SCCM

Tremendous efforts have been made by anyweb (Niall Brady, founder of windows-noob). New SCCM admins can refer this step by step guide to get a thorough idea of SCCM functionalities.

Please refer to below link-
SCCM 2007 step by step Guide

Cheers.

Client installed but showing as 'No' to SCCM console - troubleshooting tips #4

Hi Again,

While SCCM admins plan to upgrade sms client to sccm client and you have a large SCCM infrastructure with multiple sites, make sure that you have configured site code within client push installation method of primary sites or if you have planned to upgrade clients with software distribution methods, don't use auto discovery for all clients, it can cause you a large no of unhealthy clients. You will see number of clients which have client installed but showing as 'No' to sccm console. To eliminate this, you can prepare site wise client upgrade package and can deploy it to respective sites.

One more good option is to prepare a script which will discover client's site boundary (AD site) and assign site code immediately. this script can be deploy to all clients within your sccm infrastructure centrally.

Anyway, if you have such computers in which client is installed but showing 'No' in console, one more option is to set the correct site code and resolve the issue.

Hope it helps.

Clarifications on my previous posts

I started this blog for SMS Admins so that they can get all relevant information from here. Earlier, I was adding few important points of SMS 2003 from Microsoft technet library which have helped new admins working on SMS.

There are several blogs, tutorials and e-learning portals where people can have a look but they don't do so because of time constraint, I help them to see all relevant administrative tips on my blog portal.

If anyone has any comments about my blog, please let me know with your name and email id. I welcome your thoughts.

Anonymous comments would be treated as spam message and will be deleted immediately.

Cheers!

February 6, 2011

My Next Milestone 'Solutions Architect' by 2012

I am just understanding the responsibilities of 'Solutions Architect' and below are my findings about SA roles -
  • Assist in the refinement of business requirements
  • Respond to business requirements with feasible technical solutions
  • Provide an architectural design for the selected solution that:
  • Helps the customer verify that they're satisfied with what they're getting
  • Provides a blueprint for the project manager to plan with
  • Informs the constructors so that they can estimate cost & effort
  • Liaise with: 
    • The customer to ensure alignment with requirements
    •  The project manager to identify appropriate constructor engagement
    •  Constructors to validate feasibility & provide support throughout construction
    •  Write & present eloquently with the appropriate audience perspective in mind
    •  Build & maintain excellent relations with key stakeholders
    •  Apply their creative skills & talents in devising effective designs (a.k.a. thought leadership)
    •  Continuously expand their knowledge & specialisation of technology & design patterns
Finally, I can conclude that SA role is a Subject Matter Expert role who actively involves with Project Management team and helps Project manager to take decisions with expert judgement.

Cheers!

can't reinstall sccm client on machine 'MSI: Could not delete key'

Please find below scenarios with respective troubleshooting steps- MSI: Could not delete key \SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{84ECA343-5158-48BB-87C3-37EF4B919F20}. Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel.


  1. Open command prompt window with run as account domain\smsclient account (to avoid any access related issue)
  2. Run ccmclean .exe /Q /All (I know that we can remove sccm client with ccmsetup.exe /uninstall switch but it seems that legacy sms client settings prevent sccm upgrade and thus, it needs to be uninstalled properly)
  3. Run installsccm.bat file on machine to install sccm client (please verify ccmsetup.log file for successful installation)

MSI: Setup was unable to create the WMI namespace CCM\SoftwareMetering Agent The error code is 80041002

  1. Open command prompt window with run as account tp1\srvsmsclinst (to avoid any access related issue)
  2. Run ccmclean .exe /Q /All (I know that we can remove sccm client with ccmsetup.exe /uninstall switch but it seems that legacy sms client settings prevent sccm upgrade and thus, it needs to be uninstalled properly)
  3. Run setWMI.bat to repair WMI (I use below script and have got 100% success @all time)
  4. Run installsccm.bat file on machine to install sccm client (please verify ccmsetup.log file for successful installation).
'setWMI.bat
'script here
net stop ccmexec

net stop winmgmt
%SYSTEMDRIVE%
CD %windir%\system32\wbem
rd /S /Q repository
net start winmgmt
net start ccmexec
for /f %%s in ('dir /b /s *.dll') do regsvr32 /s %%s
for /f %%s in ('dir /b *.mof') do mofcomp %%s
wmiprvse /regserver

Hope it helps.