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I push out Java using SCCM and the installer installs whichever version is needed for the version of the browser that is installed.

I am currently using this along with SCCM "right click tools". WakeMeOnLan - Turn on computers on your network with Wake-on-LAN packet

When I build my images I build them as virtual machines in Hyper-V. I also use a boot (capture) media iso to run the capture sequence. During deployment, I have the driver packs queried to install the proper drivers during the OSD task sequence.

If you are deploying via SCCM, just set the installer package to uninstall the previous version first. And be sure to set ti to not install if any user is logegd on.

Try spiceworks. If you configure the smnp credentials, you can get reports of what is plugged into which switch ports.

Add another vote for spiceworks

Is a reboot/restart required for an update causing the pc's to be "stuck"? Install the "sccm right click tools" on your workstation with the sccm console and restart those machines.

I would not use any domain admin accounts. We have specific accounts setup for SCCM management. Just as an example, we have a 18 school district. Each school has its own SCCM Primary Site server. Each school (site) is identified with a three digit code (9xx). Our Central Office is "900". Our schools start at "910" and go up numerically. We have two accounts that we use with SCCM. These accounts are "tied" to each site. Site: 920 User accounts: (both accounts have local admin rights to the client computers). SCCM920 - Used for adding computer accounts to AD. SMS920 - Used as the network access account. Now, we still have some clients that for one reason or another will not accept a client push from the server. So, I made two batch files. One uninstalls the client ("ccmsetup.exe /uninstall"). The other one installs the client (with all the command line settings). After checking that the local firewall is off, I run the uninstall, then the install. We started using SMS 2003, then SCCM 2007 and now SCCM 2012. It would probably be easier to have a single primary server and separate secondary servers (each school being a secondary). But, we are a team of 9 techs and only three of us have been really using SMS/SCCM the whole time. Once all of the team is "on board", we may switch over to a more efficient setup (during a version upgrade).

I have not seen that one yet but have used Spiceworks for many years

We build our wim files on virtual machines. Once built and configured as a base image, then we capture the virtual machine.

In addition to previous postings. VNC preinstalled, any local admin accounts you will need, any browser settings. Add in your network (shared or ip) printers, you can remove ones not needed by the user later. I also additionally do the following on all my images. 1. Create a folder named "Software" on the root of C. (c:\software). I have my users "trained" to look there for some specific items. I can just copy to that location over the network (copy c:\tostaff\*.* \\remotepc\c$\software) 2. I have a global security group in AD that I have setup with local admin access on client machines. If any use needs local admin rights, I can just add them to the security group as needed.

One thing I have noticed is the firewall. We have the firewall disabled through GPO and through the service manager. But for some reason, some of the computers that are not updating has the firewall service Disabled but it is Started.

Tried that and it was not working. SCCM 2012 SP1. Clients are a mixture of Windows 7 (32bit and 64bit) and Windows XP SP3. The client does install on Windows XP Sp3 computers. I have a drafting lab (We are a Technical High School) that is running Windows 7 64bit. Out of the 20 computers in that lab, two are migrated over, the rest are not.

We changed from SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012. We still have both servers running. The problem that we are having is that not all of our computers are getting the client installed. We are averaging around 75% - 80%. Even going through the SCCM 2012 "install client" does not work. We have even tried copying the newer ccmsetup.exe file over to the old server and creating a mandatory task to install it (with the new options). Trying to run the ccmsetup manually (or batch file) does not work either. At my wits end right now as to what to try next. The batch file includes this line. \\sde-sccm916\SMS_P16\Client\ccmsetup.exe SMSSITECODE=P16 FSP=P16 DISABLESITEOPT=True SMSCACHEDIR=Cache SMSCACHEFLAGS=MAXDRIVE

I removed the SUP and WSUS. But I could not get the WID to remove. In the process of a reload right now.

Thanks Gatt. I think tomorrow I will remove WSUS and SUP then reinstall it and try to have it use SQL. If that fails, I will just end up doing a format and reinstall.

Which version? Whatever version that was installed automatically when we installed the role. So it is probably the newer version. I am nto sure what DB it is using. We just went with the defaults. I did find this in the WCM.log Set DBServerName property in SCF to 'SDE-SCCM930.exec.ds.state.ct.us\MICROSOFT##WID' on this site for SDE-SCCM930.exec.ds.state.ct.us.~ $$<01-23-2013 12:45:08.557+300>

When we installed the software, it prompted for us to install the ADK which we did. We selected all the options. Party of that was to install SQLExpress. Could that have caused some problem?

Here is a snip of the bottom part of the wsyncmgr.log Found 1 SUPs $$<01-24-2013 07:00:02.290+300> Found active SUP SDE-SCCM930 from SCF File.~ $$<01-24-2013 07:00:02.305+300> DB Server not detected for SUP SDE-SCCM930 from SCF File. skipping.~ $$<01-24-2013 07:00:02.305+300> Sync failed: WSUS update source not found on site P30. Please refer to WCM.log for configuration error details.. Source: getSiteUpdateSource $$<01-24-2013 07:00:02.321+300> STATMSG: ID=6703 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_WSUS_SYNC_MANAGER" SYS=SDE-SCCM930 SITE=P30 PID=3948 TID=6884 GMTDATE=Thu Jan 24 12:00:02.321 2013 ISTR0="getSiteUpdateSource" ISTR1="WSUS update source not found on site P30. Please refer to WCM.log for configuration error details." ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=0 $$<01-24-2013 07:00:02.321+300> Sync failed. Will retry in 60 minutes $$<01-24-2013 07:00:02.336+300> Setting sync alert to active state on site P30 $$<01-24-2013 07:00:02.336+300> Sync time: 0d00h00m00s $$<01-24-2013 07:00:02.352+300> Wakeup for a polling cycle $$<01-24-2013 08:00:02.575+300> Starting Sync $$<01-24-2013 08:00:02.590+300> Performing sync on retry schedule $$<01-24-2013 08:00:02.606+300> Read SUPs from SCF for SDE-SCCM930.exec.ds.state.ct.us $$<01-24-2013 08:00:02.606+300> Found 1 SUPs $$<01-24-2013 08:00:02.622+300> Found active SUP SDE-SCCM930 from SCF File.~ $$<01-24-2013 08:00:02.637+300> DB Server not detected for SUP SDE-SCCM930 from SCF File. skipping.~ $$<01-24-2013 08:00:02.637+300> Sync failed: WSUS update source not found on site P30. Please refer to WCM.log for configuration error details.. Source: getSiteUpdateSource $$<01-24-2013 08:00:02.653+300> STATMSG: ID=6703 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_WSUS_SYNC_MANAGER" SYS=SDE-SCCM930 SITE=P30 PID=3948 TID=6884 GMTDATE=Thu Jan 24 13:00:02.653 2013 ISTR0="getSiteUpdateSource" ISTR1="WSUS update source not found on site P30. Please refer to WCM.log for configuration error details." ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=0 $$<01-24-2013 08:00:02.653+300> Sync failed. Will retry in 60 minutes $$<01-24-2013 08:00:02.669+300> Setting sync alert to active state on site P30 $$<01-24-2013 08:00:02.669+300> Sync time: 0d00h00m00s $$<01-24-2013 08:00:02.669+300> Wakeup for a polling cycle $$<01-24-2013 09:00:02.863+300> Starting Sync $$<01-24-2013 09:00:02.878+300> Performing sync on retry schedule $$<01-24-2013 09:00:02.894+300> Read SUPs from SCF for SDE-SCCM930 $$<01-24-2013 09:00:02.894+300> Found 1 SUPs $$<01-24-2013 09:00:02.909+300> Found active SUP SDE-SCCM930 from SCF File.~ $$<01-24-2013 09:00:02.909+300> DB Server not detected for SUP SDE-SCCM930 from SCF File. skipping.~ $$<01-24-2013 09:00:02.925+300> Sync failed: WSUS update source not found on site P30. Please refer to WCM.log for configuration error details.. Source: getSiteUpdateSource $$<01-24-2013 09:00:02.925+300> STATMSG: ID=6703 SEV=E LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_WSUS_SYNC_MANAGER" SYS=SDE-SCCM930.exec.ds.state.ct.us SITE=P30 PID=3948 TID=6884 GMTDATE=Thu Jan 24 14:00:02.941 2013 ISTR0="getSiteUpdateSource" ISTR1="WSUS update source not found on site P30. Please refer to WCM.log for configuration error details." ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=0 $$<01-24-2013 09:00:02.941+300> Sync failed. Will retry in 60 minutes $$<01-24-2013 09:00:02.941+300> Setting sync alert to active state on site P30 $$<01-24-2013 09:00:02.956+300> Sync time: 0d00h00m00s $$<01-24-2013 09:00:02.956+300>

The WSUS service would not start. It would not start downloading any updates. When I get to work in the morning I can try to get some log files to post. Any log specifically I should look for?

Setup: Server 2012 Data Center 64bit SQL 2012 SP1 SCCM 2012 SP1 We have the SCCM SP1 and SQL 2012 SP1 installed on Server 2012 Datacenter. Everything is setup and "talking". However when we try to setup a Software Update Server (on the same box) WSUS will not work. It does not download any updates and is talking to the SQL 2012 database. The WSUS Role was installed after SQL and before SCCM. So it should all be talking properly but it is not. We are currently at a dead end on figuring out what to do next and looking for any tips or suggestions. Thanks.

Sorry to bring this back up but I was wondering if anyone who was using this had any update. We are looking to implement it this in the next few months. We are waiting for SCCM 2012 SP1 to be released so we can load up Server 2012, SCCM 2012 and Service Manager. We 17 High Schools, our Central Office and another office. Total of 19 or 20 Primary Sites with around 10,000 pc's and a dozen Techs.

We have been using SCCM2007 for a couple of years now. We have been using it for building, capturing and deploying images. We have also been using it for deploying software and updates. I am just starting to read about MDT. We have never used MDT and to be honest, we know nothing about MDT. Can someone point me to a spot that explains what MDT is abotu and what we could gain from it? Or maybe explain it here unless it has been done already.

I posted in another thread about using XAMPP and OpenaudIT. Both are freeware. Setup is fairly simple, run the audit.vbs as a part of the logon process. Open-AudIT apache friends - xampp

I have a setup where i am using XAMPP and OpenaudIT to perform hardware and software inventories. I have it run as part of the logon process. I was using Spiceworks but decided I wanted something where I had access to the information and not another outside source. apache friends - xampp Open-AudIT