ConfigMgr 2007 MP – crash dumps monitor script failure

Continuing on the Configuration Manager 2007 Management Pack scripts failures I stumbled on another one. This time I had an "Invalid procedure call or argument’ 5 (0×5) executing script ConfigMgr 2007 Monitor SMS Executive Crash Dumps: Digging inside the script I found another brilliant example of poor coding where once again a misplaced error checking […]

SCCM MP scripts keep failing

This task has been hanging out for a while, it’s no mystery I consider it a miserable waste of time, but that’s life and since SCCM is a major component of our services offer I had to put a stop to those nasty alerts about SCCM MP scripts failures. I’m sure you had many %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE […]

OSD : Capture Operating System Image Step failed with HRESULT=80070002

Last week I received a call from one of my customers asking me to help him with a strange error he was receiving in the step “Capture Operating System Image” of an OSD Task Sequence. The following is the log created by the step with detailed information on the error (I substituted the real file […]

SCCM : How to Force SQL Reporting Services Point to select a specific SRS Instance on a machine with multiple instances (an unsupported workaround)

As specified in the following TechNet article : How to Create a Reporting Services Point for SQL Reporting Services it is recommended that you install the SQL Reporting Services Point on a computer running only one instance of SQL Reporting Services. The reason is that the current version of SCCM uses the first instance of […]

SCMM software updates scan fails on DPM servers

This is a whole System center post :-). A colleague of mine (Stefano Sberveglieri) fought against a strange issue in software updates. The scan process kept failing on DPM servers with the following error message SyncUpdates failure, error = 0x8024400E, soap client error = 7, soap error code = 400, HTTP status code = 200. […]