There may come a time in your SCCM administration days where some special needs may arise. I had such a case recently. Long story short, in our company, we have a windows domain where no trusts exist with our primary domain where SCCM resides. The problem with that is since there is no visibility in between the two domains, how do you get the servers or workstations managed? This post will describe Installing SCCM DP MP SUP in Untrusted Domain. Default settings? Such as a default Windows Update setup. Nah, I like to have some degree of control over who does what and when. Install a standalone WSUS server? Yes, this is a viable option where you can set and forget it. But it probably doesn’t fit with your SCCM setup. Install a completely separate SCCM infrastructure? Sure this works. But… Do you like doubling all your work? I surely … Read More
SCCM 2012 Management Point Error 1603
We have recently experienced a SCCM 2012 management point error 1603. Scenario : Installing a new MP gives an error 1603 SCCM 2012 R2 Windows 2012 R2 The first thing to check is the MPSetup.log, you can see the error 1603 but you have not much information about what’s the problem really is. You have to dig deeper in the MPMsiLog.LastError to see the root cause. As you can see the error is cause by a previous version of the client being installed on the server. My environment had SCCM 2007 configured with the client push so my 2007 client was installed. I’ve removed the client using ccmsetup /uninstall and remove the MP role. Still the same error then re-adding … Read More