ConfigMgr's Gazette

    This is most useful blog for SCCM client remediation. I will try to explain all possible point to be looked. These are steps we can use while remediating client on any machine manually. Check to ensure WMI connectivity Use Windows Management Instrumentation Tester: The Windows Management Instrumentation Tester dialog box is displayed when you click Start, click Run, and then type wbemtest.exe in the Open: field. This dialog box provides access to all WBEMTest functions. You should get screenshot below: Try to connect to the namespace like show in the below screenshot.   In the Namespace field, enter the path. On newer versions of Windows this defaults to root\cimv2 which is where all of the Win32 classes reside and what most people use. But if you know the path to another namespace, like root\SecurityCenter2 go ahead and use it. The default is the local computer which if that is the case all you need to do is click

Please go through the link and check out the biggest blunder made during use of SCCM. This link will give to idea about what not to do during the use of SCCM and lesson learnt. https://www.reddit.com/r/SCCM/comments/6not6x/what_was_your_biggest_blunder/ " One stupid mistake can change everything." - Aarif

This is the new holistic move towards enterprise standard image management. Check out this blog : https://blogs.windows.com/business/2017/06/29/delivering-modern-promise-windows-10/amp/ -Aarif

I have received this issue while imaging E6 - Latitude Family. TS was getting failed while downloading the driver package from the distribution point. Giving message Failed to Provision Driver : Return Code 0x80091007 and Process completed with exit code 21148077575. To fix this issue I have redistributed the driver package on Distribution Point and it fixed the issue. RCA : Hash Value is not matching. -Aarif

I have worked on a upgrade of Symantec Endpoint Protection Agent on 60000 devices including server and workstations. The upgrade was having several challenges and issues but here are some scripts that will help in upgrading with ease. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation Script ( Verbose Logging Enabled) : This script can be use to install SEP agent (if SEP is provided by the SEPMC) silently. '-------------------------------Start of Script----------------------------------------- '------------Install 32 bit Symantec Endpoint Protection12.1.5337.5000 ------------------ On error resume next dim fso, wshll, Dir, Path, key, installdir, uname, ttime, loc, sloc, Exepath, cmdline, cm, SCPath Set fso = createobject("Scripting.Filesystemobject") Set wshll = createobject("wscript.shell") PRODATA = wshll.expandenvironmentstrings("%ProgramData%"