George Bethanis: From SharePoint to the System Center's world...
A journey to Microsoft's technologies
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Hello everybody, I want to Thank You all for this journey, your suggestions and comments on this...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 01/26/2016
CM12 SCCMContentLib content, can be backed-up and re-used?
If your systems run under Configuration Manager 2012, you may fall into a question on SCCMContentLib...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 03/14/2015
Intune - Several Mobile Devices have the status "Blocked"?
If you face any issue with Intune-ConfMgr managed mobile devices, where some devices appear as...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 03/09/2015
SPS2010 big list error: "Unable to execute query: Error 0x80131530"
You may fall into the situation where in a SharePoint Server 2010 farm, when a user of a specific...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 02/02/2015
CM12 - How to clean the ccmcache
In case you need to clean the ccmcache on the configuration Manager 2012 client, you can manually...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 12/05/2014
Configuration Manager 2012 R2 Endpoint Protection client – failover path scenario
EP definition and Engine update failover scenario:A customer has set UNC as a failover option in...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 12/02/2014
How to install patches in an isolated environment
How to install windows updates in isolated environments? (WSUS or Configuration Manager) All...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 09/19/2014
CM12 R2's WSUS server's corrupted WID (windows Internal database)
You may face sometimes, issue with CM12 R2's WSUS server. It can be that the WID is corrupted and...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 09/18/2014
SPS13 - How to fully backup a SharePoint Farm
In general , you need to backup the whole farm through the SharePoint UI and/or the SQL databases....
Author: George Bethanis Date: 09/17/2014
DPM 2012 SP1 RU2 - Huge System Volume Information folder
If you face the following behavior in DPM 2012 SP1 RU2: "Huge System Volume Information folder while...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 09/09/2014
SharePoint Server 2013 - Can you uninstall patches?
In case one of your Farm's servers have been patched lately (only one server for example, and no...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 08/28/2014
CM12 R2 - What if you need to remove the "Store" app icon from Taskbar?
At this point, the only known and working solutions on this issue are the following: There are...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 08/26/2014
Why an OSD Task Sequence is triggered to re-run on a CM12 client?
This is usually caused by a mandatory advertisement to a collection, when a PC is added to the...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 07/29/2014
How to check for the WSUS server settings and GPOs on ConfMgr clients
In order to check the WSUs server that the clients are contacting and also check for any GPOs...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 07/29/2014
Inventorying Data Strings Longer than 254 Characters in SCCM and ConfMgr2012 are truncated on Hardware Inventory
This is a known limitation of the product! In fact, this behavior is listed in the following TechNet...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 07/29/2014
CM12 SP1 clients are not able to download software updates - Error "SetJobTimeoutOptions failed. Error = 0x87d00215 UpdatesHandler "
There have been incidents, where the CM12 clients - not all, but some of them - cannot download all...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 07/22/2014
DPM 2012 R2 cannot attach the agent on a workgroup computer
In case you have installed the DPM agent manually, on a workgroup computer and you are facing issues...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 06/30/2014
SharePoint 2013 - How much memory is recommended by Microsoft?
In a nutshell: for a Web server or an Application server in a three-tier farm, you will need to have...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 06/29/2014
Configuration Manager 2012 - How to refresh an existing client and retain its advertisements
In case an existing CM12 client has to be refreshed (new device), the new device will be staged with...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 06/29/2014
SCCM 2007 - WSUS scan fails on client machines
You may observe the following errors appearing in the SCCM client's logs, when SCCM clients cannot...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 06/10/2014
How to check for DPM performance issues while backing-up to disk
In such a DPM Performance issue while backing-up to disk, you will need to check a variety of steps,...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 06/03/2014
Upgrade sequence to get to Configuration Manager 2012 R2 level
Let's see below what to check and what steps to use, to successfully upgrade your Configuration...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 05/29/2014
How to by-pass DPM tape backup performance issues
There could be many causes of slow tape backup, like: faulty cabling on the tape drive, old...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 05/26/2014
CM12 SP1 CU3 The task sequence will not start for machines with previously failed required deployment
Recently we received a request for assistance, on the following ConfMgr 2012 SP1 CU3 issue: When...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 11/05/2013
How to collect DPM Verbose logs
This is the plan, in order to collect some DPM (Data Protection Manager) verbose logs (that way, the...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 11/04/2013
Can CM12 RTM be upgraded to the CM12 R2 version directly? Any considerations?
I am attaching below information on the topic: "Can CM12 RTM be upgraded to the CM12 R2 version...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 11/04/2013
CM12 application (dependencies) uninstall behavior
The following list, gives some information about the CM12 application uninstall behavior...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 11/04/2013
Resources on "How to move from ConfMgr 2007 to ConfMgr 2012"
I am attaching below some information and resources, on the considerations and the way to move from...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 11/04/2013
Close to the end of support for the SharePoint 2003 version products
The end of support for our SharePoint 2003 version products will occur on April 8, 2014! So, be...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 11/04/2013
SPS13 "Open with Explorer" random error "We're having a problem opening this location in File Explorer. Add this web site to your Trusted Sites list and try again"
In a SharePoint Server 2013 environment, (on this case with Windows Server 2012, and Windows 7 Ent...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 11/04/2013
Support for Hyper-V Replica in CM 2012 SP1 & Disaster Recovery supported scenarios
Currently, Hyper-V Replica is not supported by ConfigMgr 2012!This is very likely to change in a...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 11/04/2013
CM12 Software Updates appear in the console as Downloaded: NO
It has been reported lately the following behavior on CM12:When you are synchronizing WSUS with...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 09/26/2013
Some tips on the errors in System Center Configuration Manager OSD Task sequences
if you use OSD Task Sequences in Configuration Manager and you end up with a non-finishing TS...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 09/26/2013
CM12 Endpoint protection agent cannot be installed on the clients
Some times, you may fall into the following situation on your ConfMgr2012 environment: You are...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 09/26/2013
CM12 - upgrade of a client to SP1, fails with error: MicrosoftPolicyPlatformSetup.msi installation failed. Exit code 1603
You may face an issue, where you have a CM12 environment and on one of your servers/clients (i.e....
Author: George Bethanis Date: 02/04/2013
ConfMgr2007 / Security Updates cannot be downloaded on a server, with error on WUAHandler.log: "Failed to Add Update Source for WUAgent of type (#) and id ({##-###-##-##-###}). Error = 0x80040694 "
A customer reported the following issue, in his ConfMgr2007 R2 environment (mixed mode) with one...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 01/31/2013
CM12 Unable to deploy Office 2010 SP1 - "In Progress" console state
Someone may face the following issue, when deploying an Office 2010 SP1 package to Windows 7...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 01/16/2013
CM12 Sync failed: Failed to sync some of the updates
In CM12, you may face errors like the following, in the WSYNCMGR.log: Failed to sync update...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 01/15/2013
In CM12 an Admin cannot create an ISO DVD with error: "The Create Task Sequence Media Wizard completed with errors"
We have recently observed the following behavior: A CM12 Admin cannot create an ISO DVD by using the...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 01/15/2013
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 "End of Support" dates
As you may see in the following table [attached from this MS page:...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 08/31/2012
Windows Server 2012 does not - currently - support SharePoint Server 2010
In case you haven't already be informed, currently (as stated at the start of the "Summary" section)...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 08/31/2012
SPS2010 cannot send incoming emails to Lists/Libraries
We have seen cases lately, where on some SharePoint 2010 environments (version: 14.0.6120.5000 >...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 05/25/2012
Mainstream support for 2007 versions of Office, SharePoint, and related products, will end on Oct. 9, 2012
The Mainstream support for 2007 versions of Office, SharePoint, and related products, will end on...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 05/18/2012
CM2012 packages are not distributed to Windows Server 2003 R2 DPs
When using the brand new System Center Configuration Manager 2012, you may discover the following...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 05/10/2012
Starting point...
Hi everybody, This is my first comment for my first blog :) So, hopefully there will be more to come...
Author: George Bethanis Date: 02/19/2012