Monthly Archives: May 2013

SCCM Outage On-going: Workarounds and Solutions

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We have fixed a number of issues with SCCM and now have some workarounds for others which are listed below.  We are continuing to work on an automated a fix to ensure all clients are fully operational again as soon as possible.

If you have client PCs with any of the following issues, and need them working ASAP, please try the relevant workaround described below:

Issue 1: SCCM clients were not authenticating. Software updates and advertised programs will not run.

Cause: Residual issue from certificate issues weeks ago where W7 clients now have 2 certificates. One should have been marked as revoked but wasn’t. The other was correct but failed to work.

Work around solution: Delete both certificates from the computer’s personal certificate store. Reboot to encourage a new certificate. Reboot to get SCCM client working again. We will continue to work on an automated solution.

a)       Go to StartRun, type mmc and press Enter.

b)       Go to FileAddRemove Snap-In Add. Highlight Certificates, click Add, select Computer Account, click Finish.

c)       Select Local Computer and click Finish.

d)       Close the Add Standalone Snap-In dialog box and click OK.

e)       Browse to Certificates Personal Certificates.

f)        Delete the certificates with the computer name in the issued to column.

Issue 2: OSD media gets an error retrieving policy: 0x80004005. Log says failed to get client identity.

Solution: We have created new boot media with a newer version of the latest certificate and all IT staff will need to update their boot media.  We have added this boot image to the Live Core Task Sequences, the Beta Task Sequence, and both live and beta templates only.

Issue 3: Multicast has not been working from SCCM-Distro1

Issue 4: Hardware inventory not working on most clients

3 and 4 Solved: The work we have done on the certificates and management point has solved these issues.  We removed any reference to Network Load Balancing (NLB) which we no longer use and created a new management point certificate. We now have multicast working from all distribution points. We have also eliminated a large number of other errors in the logs of the management point and sccm-dbase.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and will update you again when there is further progress.

Kind Regards,

IT Services

 

Planned Maintenance: SCCM unavailable Wed 29th May AM

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An issue has been identified with multicast not running from sccm-distro1.  This has had no affect on multicasting the W7 images because of the redundancy available from other distribution points.

SCCM will be unavailable intermittently from 8:30 – 12:00 Wednesday 29th May to test a fix which can easily be rolled back if necessary.

We will let you know on the DMS Labs blog when the work is complete.

Kind Regards,

IT Services

 

 

Action Required: SCCM and images share clean up

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This year IT Staff will be asked to distribute custom W7 images to SCCM-Distro1 and 2.

Images currently distributed from SCCM-Distro1 and 2 will have been created from the W7 core lab image 2011/12. These images will be automatically deleted from sccm-store, SCCM console and the distribution points on Tuesday 4th June 2013.

The 2012/13 W7 images which were held on SCCM-Distro5 and 6 will not be automatically deleted but must be cleared out where possible. This is to make sure there will be enough space for this summer’s images and applications.

Action Required:

  • Please let us know via a Service Now Case if you need to keep any of the 2011/12 images on SCCM-Distro 1 & 2 (for example if this is still your most recent live image for your lab).
  • For images from last year (distributed on distro 5 and 6): Please delete SCCM image packages, associated task sequences, adverts and source files on sccm-store from last year if no longer required.
  • Please distribute this years custom W7 images to SCCM-Distro1 and 2.

Kind Regards,

IT Services

ArcGIS 10 – Microsoft update and hotfix issues

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As per an ESRI notification on 16th May 2013 – Do not install the following updates or hotfixes if you are installing ArcGIS 10:

  • KB 2732673
  • KB 2824408
  • KB 2775511

IT Services can confirm these updates are not installed in the W7 core image and will not be deployed during the monthly patch cycle.

Installing the updates may result in data corruption when using ArcGIS on a Windows 7 system and writing data to remote data storage on a Windows Vista, 7, 2008/2008 R2, or 2012 system.

Microsoft has acknowledged the problem and is working on a solution.

See http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/41119 for further details or to see if any solution has been found.

W7 2013 Core Beta Release – now available!

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We are happy to announce the BETA Release of the Windows 7 Service Core image.

The task sequence is called “Windows 7 Service – Beta Build 1 (RTM7)”.  Please could we ask you to test this and let us know via it.services@lboro.ac.uk if you find any problems.

The new core image and task sequence includes the following updates:

  •  IE9
  • Symantec AV
  • Office SP1
  • .Net 4.5
  • App-V 4.6 SP2
  • Microsoft security updates to March 2013

The capture and deployment process remains the same.

W7 Development Update

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Windows 7 core is being updated with Symantec AV, IE9, Office 2010 SP1 and Windows updates.

The W7 task sequence is being updated to include App-V 4.6 SP2 and the NVidia Quadro K600 graphics card.

The W7 core beta will be available 17th May.

The W7 core will be made live on the 19th June.