I’ve found a bug in the latest SCCM release. SCCM 2012 R2 application uninstall button is grayed out An application cannot be uninstalled using Software Center when it contains more than one deployment type. I created an application to deploy Acrobat Reader using the msi The application contains 2 deployment type (Install for User) One DT has a requirement for English OS, the other DT is for French OS The installation is successful but it can’t be uninstalled using the Software Center (The uninstall button is grayed out) When a DT is deleted, the application can be uninstalled This scenario has … Read More
Add Server Requirement using Powershell
Before an installation of SCCM, you need to enable a couple of requirements in sccm 2012 server roles and features. You can add these using the server manager snap-in but since you are a good admin, you know that you can use Powershell ! Here’s the commands I use in the script to enable the required roles before my SCCM installations : Get-Module servermanager Install-WindowsFeature Web-Windows-Auth Install-WindowsFeature Web-ISAPI-Ext Install-WindowsFeature Web-Metabase Install-WindowsFeature Web-WMI Install-WindowsFeature BITS Install-WindowsFeature RDC Install-WindowsFeature NET-Framework-Features Install-WindowsFeature Web-Asp-Net Install-WindowsFeature Web-Asp-Net45 Install-WindowsFeature NET-HTTP-Activation Install-WindowsFeature NET-Non-HTTP-Activ Run it in a PowerShell prompt and get a coffee while the magic happens, you earn … Read More
sccm connect application catalog – Cannot Connect to the Application Server
The application catalog is one of the nice addition to SCCM 2012. It can be tricky to install, there’s numerous posts about the sccm connect application catalog eror but the common one is this one. After installing both roles to your site server, when trying to connect to http://yourserver/applicationcatalog you have the following error : sccm connect application catalog The webserver cannot communicate with the server. This might be a temporary problem. Try Again Later to see if the problem has been corrected. A good starting point is to look at both component status: SMS_PORTALWEB_CONTROL_MANAGER SMS_AWEBSVC_CONTROL_MANAGER I had the following … Read More
SCCM 2012 Reports not Running from the Console
SCCM reports are great way of getting information from SCCM 2012. Any users who has access to run reports can see them locally from SCCM Console on their computer. They can also use the reporting web portal to see them (Usually : http://SccmServerName/reports) Problem Your SCCM Reporting Point is running fine, you can see all reports in the console but SCCM 2012 Reports not running when you : Browse to the Monitoring / Reporting / Reports Right-click any SCCM 2012 report and select Run Running the same report from the web portal is working … Read More