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Recently I connected System Center - Virtual Machine Manager with WSUS. The WSUS server is installed on the primary site server of my SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 CU2 installation. After I configured my SCCM WSUS server as an update server for VMM, the distribution point in the office stopped working. You will see HTTP ERROR “12030” in your logs and the PXE request on a client will fail. Browsing to the website of the SCCM Primary Site server will fail too. I found out that the certificate of IIS on my primary site was gone. ...

Recently I found the following error in the SMSPXE.log log file on my newly created distribution point: CryptVerifySignature failed, 80090006 SMSPXE <REMOVED TIME> 2500 (0x09C4) untrusted certificate: <REMOVED CERTIFICATE> SMSPXE <REMOVED TIME> 2500 (0x09C4) Failed to get information for MP: https://SCCMPRIMARY.DOMAIN.TLD. 80090006. SMSPXE <REMOVED TIME> 2500 (0x09C4) After recreating my certificate template for the IIS Service on the primary site server, it fixed the problem. Check the online documentation of SCCM for the details of this certificate template.

I had a problem with Spotify on my notebook, connected with HDMI to my Pioneer receiver. I’m using Windows 10 with the 10586 Build. When I wanted to play music after I paused Spotify for a couple of minutes, the music doesn’t play again. So I created a small PowerShell script that kills all the Spotify instances, but it’s a workaround, not a solution: Get-Process *spotify | Stop-Process Solution Right click the Speaker in your taskbar. Click on “Sounds”. Go to the “Playback” tab and click on your audio device. Push the “Properties” button and go to the “Advanced” tab. Under “Exclusive Mode”, untick “Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device”.

Today I created a user policy in an OU where Loopback Processing was applied and where Security Filtering was set to my account to test the policy. The policy didn’t show up in the RSOP data (gpresult /h report1.html) and the policy was not getting applied. Solution: Give the Domain Computers (or the group with the computer accounts from the OU) permission to read the GPO. Because of Loopback Processing, the computer account will be used to read the GPO, instead of the user account. You can still give the Domain Computers permission to read the GPO only, and add a user or group to the Security Filtering section to make sure that the GPO will be applied to that group or users. Cheers!

Problem: Sometimes it’s possible that the registry keys SerializedMCSKey and SignedSerializedMCSKey in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\MCS location are empty after a fresh installation or after reinstalling multicast. Solution: Patience… It took like 5 or 6 hours to get those values populated by SCCM / WDS. I’ve searched for a way to force this, but I couldn’t find anything online. I’ve tried to reboot both machines, without any luck. If you know a way to force this, please let me know.

Problem: In SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 CU2, I’ve created a package that deploys some files such as wallpapers with a .BAT file. When I check the execmgr.log, I see the following error: Script for Package:PR######, Program: Run Script failed with exit code 4. Solution: Under the program in SCCM, change “Run” from “Hidden” to “Normal”.

I had some issues with the newest Windows ADK (1511) with Configuration Manager 2012 R2 SP1 CU2. As of yesterday, it’s possible to download the newest version of Configuration Manager: 1511. Because I had issues with the newest ADK, I’ve asked Microsoft on Technet if we still need to use the older ADK (10.0.26624.0) or if we can use the newest 1511 version of the ADK: [ ](/images/2015/12/adkversion.png) Check the post mentioned in the image above to download the right ADK version when you are going to use the new Configuration Manager 1511.

I was capturing a new Windows 10 TH2 (1511) image with SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 CU2 when suddenly the capturing process stops and ends with a Blue Screen of Death: “SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED”. Current environment: SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 CU2 Primary Site Local Distribution Point Windows Server 2012 R2 OS Based on Hyper-V 2008 R2 and 2012 R2. Windows 10 Template on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Cluster with VM Version 1. Firstly I thought that the boot image was corrupt or not working, so I tried to recreate the image using the following post. ...

Problem: When you upload your new Windows 10 ADK boot image to SCCM 2012 R2 SP1, the process ends with the error “The specified file is invalid. Only maximum compression type is supported”. Solution: Download the newest Windows ADK for Windows 10, Version 1511 here at Microsoft.

Recently I had an issue with my work notebook, a Dell Latitude E6540. After upgrading to the new Windows 10 TH2 version, my Bluetooth keyboard and headset started couldn’t connect after a shutdown. I had to reconnect the Bluetooth devices again to temporarily fix it. I was looking for a recent driver for my Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 network card, but it was already up-to-date because of a manual Windows Updates action I did after the upgrade to TH2. I realized that my “Intel(R) Wireless Bluetooth(R)” wasn’t up-to-date. ...