TCSMUG - Twin Cities Systems Management User Group

Written by Brian Mason.

Software Updates in CM12

I was on the phone yesterday with Jason Githens, the PM for SUM in CM12. I have a number of problems with how ADRs work in CM12 today and after discussion, Jason had me create a few DCRs on Connect to address those concerns....

CM12 - Day 33 in the lab

We brought up a couple dozen clients on the site last night and today the CAS was just a sluggish pig. SMSExec wasn't doing anything (things like dataldr.log are dead since it gets that data from SQL from the primary sites...

CM12 - Day 31 in the lab

This is odd. CM3 blew up since I was last in the lab. Same old WSUS error I had before I installed .NET 4.0. So I removed the SUP and it said in the SUPSetup.log that I was missing .NET 4.0. So I installed it and reinstalled...

CM12 - Day 5 in the lab

Day 5 This lab just isn't intended to match production. So what I'm going to do for WSUS is use CM2's DB. CM2 is the primary site with SQL on it already. CM3 would be a SUP and have to call back to CM2 to do SUP queries....

CM12 - Day 4 in the lab

I forgot that one of the cool things about CM12 is single instance storage. When I upgraded the CM07 DP, it made a new share there based on that into a folder called SCCMContentLib. My clitest package was parked and looking...

CM12 - Day 3 in the lab

Right click the DP and today it's all green and ready for an upgrade – no roles left on the DP. So it will let me upgrade it. It's asking what credentials to do that with. Why can't it use the same creds...