sccm connect application catalog – Cannot Connect to the Application Server

Benoit LecoursSCCM5 Comments

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 error in SMS_AWEBSVC_CONTROL_MANAGER The WCF is not activated.Solution: Make sure WCF is activated. Pretty simple to fix ! Open server manager and add the WCF Activation feature under .NET Framework 3.5.1 (This is applicable to Windows 2008) Once activated, I reopen the application catalog… Same error ! In some scenarios, such … Read More

SCCM 2012 Reports not Running from the Console

Benoit LecoursSCCM2 Comments

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 fine Cause Navigate to the console log file C:\Program Files(X86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager\AdminConsole\AdminUILog\smsadminui.log The following error will be displayed : Microsoft ReportViewer Winforms version 10.0.0.0 or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified This error means that Report Viewer is not locally installed on the computer. Resolution Close … Read More