For the enterprise sys admin by the enterprise sys admin
29
Apr
There is a great new post over here (http://adventuresinosd.blogspot.com/2011/04/top-10-reasons-to-avoid-windows-7-32.html) at Adventures in OSD on the reasons to avoid the 32-bit version of Windows 7 in the enterprise. I strongly agree with all of his points and made one conclusion – if you are going to run a 32-bit OS then stick with Windows XP 32-bit, [...]
Tags: 32 bit, 64-bit, OSD, Windows 7, windows xp
21
Apr
I recently had a secondary site distribution point that wouldn’t recieve any packages, for every package there was “waiting to install package” installation status. The other 20-odd distribution points were fine. I checked out the DISTMGR.LOG on the secondary site distribution point to find this, the last line was giving it away: STATMSG: ID=2322 SEV=I [...]
Tags: configmgr, Cryptographic, refresh distribution point, SCCM, Update.inf, waiting to install package
21
Apr
A friend of mine has written an awesome SCCM health check script that provides a snapshot of the SCCM environment health state. Check out the script here – http://blog.tyang.org/2011/03/30/powershell-script-sccm-health-check/.
8
Apr
If you are wondering which architecture of boot image to use during SCCM OSD, the following table may assist you. When picking which boot image to use, it’s important to know there are different rules for Install Packages and Images. Use of the wrong type of boot image may result in failure of the task [...]
Tags: boot image, Images, Install Packages, mdt, OSD, SCCM, x64, x86
5
Apr
I’ve never been able to find any detailed information about the expected size of the SCCM database. I decided to keep track of this during a recent deployment. As a general rule, I had usually allowed 500MB for SCCM system database and about 2-5MB for each client that is deployed. Since there are no definative [...]
Tags: configmgr, data file, data growth, database, logs, SCCM, size, SQL