TCSMUG - Twin Cities Systems Management User Group

Written by Jeff Carreon.

Keeping inactive clients alive in CM12 for fast Patching and Distributions

In order to keep our CM12 clean, we normally enable “Delete Inactive Client Discovery Data” under Site Maintenance properties. By default this is disabled, but when enabled it is set to 90, unless you change that....

CMCB

Created on 26 June 2014.

Written by Jeff Carreon.

POSH to remove Expired and/or Superseded Udpates from a CM12 Software Update Group

Up to this date, there’s still not a CM12 cmdlet that would help remove updates from Software Update Groups. It makes it cumbersome on the monthly basis to remove the expired and superseded from these...

CMCB, PowerShell

Created on 26 June 2014.

Written by Jeff Carreon.

Enabling RDP Remotely on Windows Server12/R2

Here's a quick POSH to remotely enable RDP on Servers (Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2) Script just prompts you for the name of the Remote server you'd like to enable the RDP on. ...

PowerShell

Created on 26 June 2014.

Written by Jeff Carreon.

Apps/Packages stuck in “In progress” state when distributing to DPs

I spent weeks troubleshooting several apps and packages that were getting stuck in “In progress” state and were not successfully distributing to the DPs. When looking at the despool.log on the primary server, I...

CMCB, Stuck CM Packages, Despooler Error 12, Stuck CM Apps

Created on 26 June 2014.