Packages are not distributed to Child Sites

This behavior can occur because the SmsInboxesSchedule.boxUid folder is empty or does not exist or incorrect files in the SMSinboxesschedule.boxUID folder can stop or inhibit communications To resolve this behavior, you must open the SmsInboxesSchedule.boxUid folder and create two empty text files called nnnnnnnn.job and nnnnnnnn.req, where nnnnnnnn is the number in the filename, which is … Read more

Delete all packages from Distrubution Point

Did you get ever a situation to delete all the Packages from one Specific DP ? There are few tools/Scripts are available –          ConfigMgr 2007 Distribution Point Package Utility o   Can be downloaded from https://www.myitforum.com/inc/arts/12171Setup.zip –          Vbscript I like this tool as it is very quick o   https://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-components-postattachments/00-00-54-13-12/DPClean.zip For SCCM 2012 https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Remove-Packages-from-5031a1b5 ‘Rslaten 03/2005’https://blogs.msdn.com/b/rslaten/archive/2006/03/01/removing-a-retired-dp-from-all-your-packages.aspx On … Read more

SCCM package distribution fails to send a package to a distribution point… When multiple times clicks to updates

SCCM package distribution fails to send a package to a distribution point… When multiple times clicks to updates issue we can see below in the Distmgr.log file Package XYZ00234 requires a newer version (3) of source files and the new compressed files haven’t arrived yet, current version is 2, skip E:SMSinboxesdistmgr.boxINCOMINGZ3AWAX9I.PKG read here : https://marcusoh.blogspot.sg/2008/01/sms-distribution-manager-fails-to-send.html … Read more

For a specific Advertisement status for last 3 Days…

—for a specific Advertisement status for last 3 Days… if we include the Set   @AdvName = ‘%’ line then and remove the above line in red color will show for all advertisements with last 3 days status — To include all we need to give % in SQL this is a tip Declare     @AdvName Varchar(256)Set   … Read more

To get ride of IIS Webdav issue

Most of the time some or other application extension would be blocked because of IIS Webdav Settings issue, to stop filtering in IIS Webdav we can change the setting at the site level, i.e., open inetmgr/ IIS Console and chose the server name and in the right side we need to choose the “WebDav Authoring … Read more

"+" In AutoCAD files not able to Download at client side

This can be fixed with……….   investigated this and turns out this is an IIS request filtering issue with urls containing “+” character. Basically you get a 404.11 error since the url is double encoded. The following KB article presents a workaround to set “allowDoubleEscaping” to true. Note that by default this is disabled and … Read more

Pop-up to Postpone the advertisement or allow user to interact with advertisement

there was good Script from Jörgen Nilsson for Pop-up to Postpone the advertisement or allow user to interact with advertisement https://ccmexec.com/2011/09/allow-the-user-to-postpone-installation-in-sccm/ Screenshots of how it will look at the client: If the user press Cancel: If the Process specified is running: Usage: Download the script: https://ccmexec.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Prerun1.txt Create a Package in SCCM containing the prerun1.vbs file … Read more

Distribution Point Update Vs Refresh

Choose Between Updating and Refreshing a Package Applies To: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 only Updating and refreshing Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 packages are two different operations. Use the following table to help decide when to update and when to refresh a package.   Criterion Package Update Package Refresh Use when You make … Read more

SCCM: Content Download to Cache Issues – 2008 / 2008 r2 / IIS 7 and IIS 7.5 and Webdav Issues

Issue The issue that was reported to me was that the content was not downloading. My datatransferservice.log, my CAS.log, and ContentTransferManager.log all looked good. The client found a local DP to download the content from. However when I looked at my cache folder, I saw that only a couple of MB of data was downloaded … Read more