Today is an exciting day for me as I’m embarking on the task of rebuilding our 5-year-old sysctr server that was built on 2012R2. As I begin this process, I wanted to document the steps I’m taking to bring up a new instance alongside the existing server. Rebuilding a server can be a daunting task, […]
Recently after updating SCCM we noticed we could no longer pxe for our new UEFI machines. We’re greeted with the error: After some digging turns out wdsmgfw.efi is missing from Boot\x64 directory. To resolve this, I went on our local server and browsed to C:\Windows\System32\RemInst\boot\x64 and inside was the magical wdsmgfw.efi file. A quick copy
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Recently noticed my SCCM server data drive was running out of space. Didn’t make sense as we haven’t added anything substantial lately or used USMT. Installed WinDirStat and found the culprit to be a 400GB .ldf log file from SCCM. The fix was pretty painless and takes less than 10mins. Backup the database Stop the database service Shrink
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I recently had an issue I couldn’t figure out why client machines were taking forever to install configuration manger updates. I upgraded SCCM to version 1710 in the morning. 24 hours later come back to work and only see 178 machines that are compliant. This didn’t make sense as I can push out software within
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Received a new batch of laptops support UEFI. We’ve previously always used legacy PXE boot. Upon some googling we found a way to support both legacy and UEFI verse only supporting one or the other. This video by BranchCache Bobs shows a great tutorial on how to set it up and the differences between the
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