Installing and Configuring System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
Getting Started with this Course • 26min
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SCCM Configuration Manager Overview
Video | 8 min
Prerequisites in a Production Environment
Video | 12 min
Configuration Manager Overview Section Quiz
Quiz | 6 min
System Center Configuration Manager - Features and Capibilities • 31min
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Asset Management
Video | 6 min
Administrative Tasks
Video | 5 min
Client Management Part 1
Video | 7 min
Client Management Part 2
Video | 5 min
Features and Capabilities Section Quiz
Quiz | 8 min
SCCM 1902 Lab Setup • 50min
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This section is optional
Text | 1 min
Lab Overview
Video | 4 min
Downloading and Installing VirtualBox
Video | 2 min
Creating Your NAT Network and VMs
Video | 4 min
Downloading and Mounting Server 2019 ISO
Video | 2 min
Installing Windows Server 2019 Part 1
Video | 4 min
Installing Windows Server 2019 Part 2
Video | 3 min
Downloading and Mounting Windows 10 ISO
Video | 2 min
Installing Windows 10
Video | 4 min
Configuring SADC01
Video | 15 min
Configuring our SAWS01 Workstation
Video | 4 min
Configuring our SASCCM01 Server
Video | 5 min
Installing SCCM 1902 Installation • 1hr 17min
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SCCM Compatability Check
Video | 2 min
Download Required SCCM Software
Video | 2 min
Installing the ADK
Video | 2 min
Creating the System Management Container
Free lesson
Video | 4 min
Creating Domain User Accounts
Video | 8 min
Extending the Active Directory Schema
Free lesson
Video | 5 min
Configure Windows Firewall with Group Policy for SCCM
Video | 7 min
Install SQL Server 2017
Video | 9 min
Installing SCCM Dependent Server Roles
Video | 3 min
Installing System Center Configuration Manager
Video | 5 min
Lab: Installing System Center Configuration Manager
Lab | 30 min
Configuration Manager Basics • 1hr 53min
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Console Overview Part 1
Video | 12 min
Console Overview Part 2
| 5 min
Site System Roles
Video | 9 min
Creating and Managing Administrative Users
Video | 6 min
Creating Boundary and Boundary Groups
Video | 4 min
Client Discovery Methods
Video | 7 min
SCCM Basics Section Quiz
Quiz | 10 min
Lab: SCCM Basics
Lab | 60 min
Updating SCCM • 30min
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Understanding Windows ADK Compatibility
Video | 4 min
Configuration Manager Update Overview
Video | 6 min
How to Verify Your ADK Version
Video | 2 min
Installing ADK 1903
Video | 2 min
Updating SCCM
Video | 4 min
Verifying Our Configuration After Update
Video | 6 min
Updating SCCM Section Quiz
Quiz | 6 min
SCCM Client Installation • 46min
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Preparing for Client Installations with Group Policy
Free lesson
Video | 12 min
Client Push Installation
Free lesson
Video | 11 min
Deploying the SCCM Client with Group Policy
Video | 17 min
Manual Client Installation
Video | 6 min
User and Device Collections • 1hr 0min
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Collections Overview and the Direct Rule
Video | 9 min
Creating Include/Exclude Collections
Video | 5 min
Query based User and Device Collections Introduction
Video | 2 min
Query Based User Collections Example #1
Video | 5 min
Query Based User Collections Example #2
Video | 3 min
Query Based User Collection Challenge #1
Video | 2 min
Query Based Device Collection Example #1
Video | 3 min
Role Based Administration
Video | 2 min
Assigning a User Collection to an Administrative Security Roll
Video | 10 min
Using a Collection to Enforce a Maintenance Window
Video | 4 min
Deploying Power Management to a Collection
Video | 6 min
Using a Collection to Turn-On the Remote Control Feature
Video | 4 min
User and Device Collection Section Quiz
Quiz | 5 min
Application Management • 2hr 34min
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Application Management Overview
Video | 7 min
Creating an Application using an MSI Part 1
Video | 9 min
Creating an Application using an MSI Part 2
Video | 9 min
Supersedence Part 1
Video | 7 min
Supersedence Part 2
Video | 8 min
Creating an Application using an EXE
Video | 16 min
Creating an Application that requires Approval
Video | 12 min
Creating a Package using an MSI
Video | 9 min
Uninstalling an Application
Free lesson
Video | 5 min
Monitoring Applications
Video | 4 min
Lab: Application Deployment
Lab | 60 min
Application Management Section Quiz
Quiz | 8 min
Operating System Deployment • 23min
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Create a Windows 10 Collection
Text | 2 min
OSD - The Basics
Video | 3 min
Setting Up a DHCP Server
Video | 2 min
Adding an Operating System to Configuration Manager
Video | 6 min
Create a Deployments folder for the Captured Image
Text | 1 min
Creating a Task Sequence
Video | 5 min
Enable PXE Support - Configure WDS
Video | 4 min
Endpoint Protection • 1hr 12min
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An Overview of Network Security
Video | 8 min
Endpoint Protection Server Prerequisites
Video | 6 min
Endpoint Protection Licensing
Video | 1 min
Endpoint Protection Planning and Integration
Video | 5 min
Create a Shared Folder Named EPUdates
Text | 2 min
Endpoint Protection Server Configuration and Installation
Video | 9 min
Endpoint Protection Policy Overview
Video | 13 min
The Anti-malware Policy Settings Overview
Video | 7 min
Configuring an Automatic Deployment Rule (ADR)
Video | 7 min
Endpoint Protection Client Installation
Video | 14 min
Troubleshooting • 37min
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SCCM Troubleshooting Overview
Video | 7 min
The CMTrace Overview
Video | 8 min
Deploying CMTrace to a Device Collection
Video | 7 min
Troubleshooting a failed Client Push Install
Video | 15 min
Problems and Solutions from the Message Board • 14min
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Troubleshooting a failed Client Push Install
Several students have requested assistance with their Client Push Installation. So, I thought it would be helpful to provide a guide to several of the common problems associated with client push.
We will cover the following:
- The lab prerequisites
- Initiating a client installation
- Checking out the Server and Client Logs
- Analyze errors that we find
- Examine the client push requirements
- Fixing the problems
- Take a look at the inbox and the retry folder
- Retry the installation
Lab Prerequisites
- Create an additional Windows 10 Computer in VirtualBox, (or your VM of choice) use your ISO file to create this VM.
- For Virtual Box, change the network to NAT network
- Assign the VM an available IP address.
- Name the VM ITFWS05
- Join ITFWS05 to the domain
Initiate a Client Installation
- From the Workspace click Assets and Compliance, From the Navigation pane, click Devices. After several minutes, ITFWS05 should appear in the console. Click ITFWS05, and also notice that the client has not been installed. Open the needed log files in CMTrace. CMTrace is located on
\\itfsccm01\sms_itf\tools\cmtrace.exe, right click on CMTrace and pin to the taskbar on your server.
Server logs
SMSprov.log, SmsAdminUI.log, are Site Server logs that record information about the operation of the Configuration Manager console.
The CCM.log, records client push activities on the Site Server.
- Open CMTrace, click the folder, click ignore existing lines, double click smsprov.log
- Open another instance of CMTrace, click the folder, click ignore existing lines, double click ccm.log
- Right-click on ITFWS05 click install client, click next, click the box that says install the client software from a specified site. In this case, our site is ITF-ITFLEE, click next, click next again, then close.
- Now open SMSprov.log, and we see it is checking to see if the user has rights. The log shows that the machine was able to initiate the install.
- Now let’s check the CCM.log in CMTrace. CCM.log will handle the installation requests. Notice there are errors.
Analyzing the errors
Now let’s analyze the errors – Now let’s take a look at our ccm.log file
- Notice that the process is trying each entry in the SMS Client Remote Installation accounts list. But continues to warn us that no remote client installation account was found.
Let’s take a look and see if there is a client installation account.
From the Configuration Manager console open the Workspace, click Administration, from the Navigation Pane click site configuration, click sites, click Client Installation Settings, select Client push installation. Click accounts, and here we see that there is no account listed. This is a problem that we will fix in a minute. This leads us to the next error.
- The process is trying and fails to connect to the admin$ using the machine account with an error 5.
Open CMTrace, from tools, click error lookup, type 5 in the error code box, which is access is denied.
Then the error continues by saying failed to connect to the \\ITFWS05\admin$ share using the ‘Machine Account’
This should raise several questions.
- Where did the admin$ share come from? These shares are automatically created by Windows.
- Why is there a $ after the word admin? The $ tells windows to hide the share • Where is the admin$ share located? It is located on C:\Windows
- What is it used for? It is used to deploy software remotely.
- What permissions do I need to access admin$ share? You need to have local administrator rights on the target computer.
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