Windows 10 Upgrade won’t continue after reboot

Ran into a problem today, during windows 10 inplace upgrade, machine didn’t continue upgrade after reboot, it was about 70% of the update, machine shutdown and won’t restart again. Trouble shooting… yes I did find where is the issue. Because I have tested my Task Sequence like hundred times, I know what steps are 100% […]

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Fix Windows 10 In-Place Upgrade Task Sequence infinity restart loop

We successfully did Windows 10 In-Place Upgrade for hundreds machines, but few of them went into infinity restart loop at the end. Troubleshoot wasn’t easy, especially do it remotely. Yeah, you are right, how to troubleshoot and fix a computer that reboot itself and also has bitlocker and bitlocker PIN? Sounds mission impossible, but WE […]

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Duplicate users cause user-targeted mandatory deployment issues

Last friday one customer said their users didn’t get any applications from Software Center. So I started to check what is the issue, or if there is any issue. Applications are deployed to user collections as mandatory. Based on reports, applications are installed to some users successfully, there is no errors in the reports, but […]

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SCCM: Workaround for CB1610 replica MP issue (sp_BgbConfigSSBForRemoteService)

Before you read this, please understand Microsoft does NOT supported this kind of direct SQL edit, so please do not use this “workaround” in production. This is also a knowing issue, hotfix from Microsoft will come later. UPDATED: KB4010155 update rollup fix this issue. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4010155/update-rollup-for-system-center-configuration-manager-current-branch-v     I have been testing replica MP based on […]

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SCCM 1606 + SQL 2016: Report subscription failed

Today my lovely handsome colleague Antti told me that SCCM report subscription doesn’t work, when tried to create report subscription send email attach with excel. Errors Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: A delivery error has occurred. —> Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.DeliveryErrorException: A delivery error has occurred. —> Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.InvalidExtensionParameter: One of the extension parameters is not valid for the following reason: The value […]

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SCCM PXE boot failed after unintall WSUS.

Setup my test lab in this weekend to test SCCM TP 1609, and my PXE boot failed. SMSPXE.log shows: RequestMPKeyInformation: Send() failed. Unsuccessful in getting MP key information. 80004005. PXE::MP_InitializeTransport failed; 0x80004005 PXE::MP_ReportStatus failed; 0x80070490, PXE::CPolicyProvider::InitializeMPConnection failed; 0x80070490   When tried to open MP list, http://my_sccm_server/sms_mp/.sms_aut?mplist, it gave me HTTP Error 500.19 Error Code 0x800700e, unable […]

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All components Type and Availability shows “Unknown”. Failed to read the required Operations Management component registry key values on local computer; error = 6 (0x6).

This morning, I noticed in our SCCM Primary server, all components Type and Availability shows “Unknown” After awhile, “Type” and “Availability” shows correctly, about 60 minutes later, it shows “Unknown” again, and it just repeatedly changes itself. We rebooted the server, but it didn’t help. Investigating further, I saw that the compmon.log on the site […]

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A computer that is running Windows 10 Version 1511 reverts to a previous date and time

Perhaps not many people have this issue, but I would like to mention it here. The system date and time setting on a computer that is running Windows 10 Version 1511 (build 10586.xx) incorrectly reverts to a date and time that is at least one day in the past. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3160312 If your envirment is in […]

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