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Recently, we had an issue where KB4038777 was failing to install on some Windows 2008 R2 servers, but was fine on others. Sometimes, this indicates that the "maximum run time" on a patch has been set ludicrously low (generally 10 minutes) on a specific patch - and the servers that it is failing on, are…
Continue readinghttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4034314/smbv1-is-not-installed-by-default-in-windows-10-rs3-and-windows-server As per the link above, SMB 1 will no longer be installed by default in Win 10 1710 (which, given the release date, I’m guess that’s what it will be called) or the next version of Server 2016 (whatever that ends up being called). Considering the recent-ish SMB1 targeted attacks, this isn’t surprising…
Continue readingIt is very common to get the following errors in your SCCM component status window for the component "SMS_Inventory_Data_loader" - the most of common of which goes something along the lines of Inventory Data Loader failed to process the file D:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\inboxes\auth\dataldr.box\Process\H38H6C71.MIF because it is larger than the defined maximum allowable size of…
Continue readingIts fair to say I'm not a fan of Microsoft support. Premier support is anything but premier, and partner's are completely unsupported, in fact, Microsoft products in general fall under "effectively un-contactable" if you don't have premier, and if you do have premier they still fall into "effectively unsupported"... and if it wasn't for community…
Continue readingSCCM admin, console works from all machines.... try a 8.1 machine at a remote site, "Configuration manager cannot connect to the site (FQDN of primary)" Found this helpful article https://sccmfaq.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/sccm-2012-r2-console-on-windows-8-1-cant-connect-to-sms-provider/ Basically dump these entries into a text file, rename to .reg and import.... Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\ConfigMgr10\AdminUI\QueryProcessors\WQL] "Assembly Path"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Configuration Manager\\AdminConsole\\bin\\AdminUI.WqlQueryEngine.dll"…
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