Author Archives: Frank Maxwitat

Tests were done with CM 2103 and PS App Deployment Toolkit 3.8.4 I’m not a frequent packager and I recently had to provide an Application to install the Configuration Manager console. It should be mainly required for users who don’t have admin rights on the machine that they use for administrating the CM environment (think… Read More: Using the Powershell AppDeploymentKit to deploy the Configuration Manager console »

The article is based on tests with TP 2104 and CB 2103 The Community Hub enriches Configuration Manager by a large number of solutions that can easily be integrated into the CM console. To take advantage of the offer, you must install the WebView2 console extension which you’ll get if you click on the little… Read More: Pocket Guide to the Community Hub »

Problem The transaction log of ConfigMgr database grows to the limit within a short period of time until the database becomes unresponsive. When rebooting the server, the database remains in recovery mode for some time. You may find entries like the one below in the log of the SQL server: Change Tracking autocleanup is blocked… Read More: Transaction log of the CM database rapidly grows until the… »

When reinstalling the ConfigMgr agent, the installation succeeds but the initialization does not. The machine is getting the same SMS GUID it had before although the SMSCFG.ini in c:\Windows was deleted and doesn’t show up in the ConfigMgr console. In MP_Registration.log you find these entries: [RegTask] – Client is not registered. Sending registration request for… Read More: Client registration is pending »

This issue might be specific to HP devices: When running an OSD Task sequence, the machine does not boot into PE with the first restart but it tries to boot from PXE again. After several tries, it will fail unless you interfere by opening the boot menu. In case you have the hardware inventory extended… Read More: OSD Task Sequence boots from network after first restart instead… »

ConfigMgr stuck in installing state Problem: A ConfigMgr update is stuck in installing state, Status doesn’t show any entries. CMUpgrade.log contains the following entries: ERROR: Failed to start Site Component Manager GetLastError=1115 CONFIGURATION_MANAGER_UPDATE 7/1/2020 2:10:36 AM 5008 (0x1390)INFO: SQL Connection succeeded. Connection: SMS ACCESS, Type: Secure CONFIGURATION_MANAGER_UPDATE 7/1/2020 2:10:36 AM 5008 (0x1390)Turned on activation for… Read More: ConfigMgr Update issues »

Remove orphaned or outdated folders from Configuration Manager StateMigrationPoint. When you set up a State Migration Point you must configure a deletion policy for the storage folder. Since this policy only gets applied if the migration is completed, there may be folders on your drive that never get cleaned up. The script below checks if… Read More: Cleaning up the State Migration Point »

There might be cases where you run a ConfigMgr task sequence and want to launch a task in the system context after the TS is finished. You can of course do this by using the task sequence variable SMSTSPOSTACTION but if you want to trigger an action after a restart a scheduled task might be… Read More: Creating a One-Time-Task that runs with system rights after restart »