The Desktop Team - Path to Windows 8

One and all,

I have some good news, I have recently been invited to join the Desktop Team as a blogger.

I am however sad to say that I haven't had the time to actually start putting anything on the new blog as of yet.

But, we are hosting a brilliant event on the "Path to Windows 8". Its going to be a brilliant day away from the office discussing all things System Center and Windows 8. I promise you a line up MVP's and wonderfully talented people sharing their knowledge.

Details on the event can be found here ... https://thedesktopteam.com/events/

I hope to see some of you in London.

SCCM 2012 SP1 Management Point error "Call to HttpSendRequestSync failed for port 80/443 with status code 500, text: Internal Server Error"

Tell you what, I have to blame my sales team for this error. Let me explain, they like to push the latest and greatest and that's fine, until you forget old trick of the trade as you have been working with Windows Server 2012 since before it was officially launched ...

So, SCCM 2012 SP1 Management Prole on Windows Server 2008 R2, you need to register ASP.NET v4 with IIS. If you don't you will see the error below in your mpcontrol.log or in the System State Messages in the monitoring workspace.

Call to HttpSendRequestSync failed for port 80/443 with status code 500, text: Internal Server Error

Now I would like to point out that with SCCM 2012 pre SP1 this was never an issue as it uses .NET 3.5.

P.S you don't have to run this on Windows Server 2012 as it used .NET v4 by default.

Solution:

Run the following elevated command prompt on the affected Management Point.

cd /d %windir%\Microsoft.Net\Framework64\v4*
aspnet_regiis –i –enable

Any questions please ask.

Enjoy.

SCUP for Windows Server 2012 (SCCM 2012 SP1)

Good news, Microsoft have finally update their documentation to show that Windows Server 2012 and SCUP can now play ball together.

I have also managed to integrate this with SCCM 2012 SP1 and its working like a charm.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2013/05/14/support-announcements-for-may-2013.aspx

Enjoy

HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error - SCCM 2012 SP1 - Windows Server 2012 - WSUS x64

Hello,

I noticed that I was getting a lot of red crossed under my site components and that my default website was chucking out the following error after a WSUS install on the local SCCM server.

HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error
The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.

This was also the case when trying to access http://localhost/ccm_client and application portals.

I had a look at the ApplicationHost.config file and noticed that suscomp.dll was installed by WSUS.

Resolution
1. Go to C:\windows\system32\inetsrv\config and locate the ApplicationHost.config file
2. Open it with notepad and look for the following lines below

scheme name=”xpress” doStaticCompression=”false” doDynamicCompression=”true”
dll=”C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\suscomp.dll” staticCompressionLevel=”10″
dynamicCompressionLevel=”0″ />

3. The following command needs to be run to disable the suscomp.dll that was installed when the WSUS server role was installed, Im not 100% sure but from what I could see compression schemes are in every application pool and when WSUS x64 was installed the suscomp.dll chucks out the 500.19 error when its trying to load the x86 application pool. So from an elevated command prompt running the following.

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression /-[name='xpress']

4. If you need to re-enable this just change it slightly and run this command.

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression /+[name='xpress',doStaticCompression='false',dll='%windir%\system32\inetsrv\suscomp.dll']

How to unisntall SCCM 2012 SP1 agent/client

Got a mail asking how to uninstall the SCCM agent, this is how ...

From the command promt type (Start>Run>cmd)

C:\Windows\system32> cd\
C:\>cd windows
C:\windows> cd ccmsetup
C:\Windows\ccmsetup>ccmsetup /uninstall

Keep an eye on the un-installation using the log files from C:\Windows\ccmsetup\ccmsetup.log

Once that's complete delete the following files in bold
C:\Windows\ccmsetup
C:\Windows\ccm
C:\Windows\SMSCFG.ini

My friend Matt also reminded me to remove the Machine Certs from the SMS store

To do this
Start>Run>MMC>Click File>Add/Remove Snap-in...>Certificates>Click Add>Computer Account>Local Computer>SMS

Delete the certificates in the SMS store.

Enjoy

SCCM 2012 Server Sizing Guide

Please see below the latest server sizing guides for SCCM 2012 as provided by RFLSYSTEMS

Link Below

http://www.rflsystems.co.uk/resources/

System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 Installation Fails.

Morning.

When you upgrade operations manager, be aware that you need to upgrade your management servers one at a time. And its also important to start with the initial upgrade on the primary (the server you used to install opsmgr for the first time) management server. Its all to do with updating the database, but the database needs to written to in a specific order.

So heads up.

For more details follow the link below.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2013/01/16/patience-is-a-virtue-with-the-system-center-2012-operations-manager-sp1-installation.aspx