My SCCM 2012 R2 UNIX Linux notes

Download Putty and PSCP from http://www.putty.org/

Putty allows you to perform remote terminal.

PSCP allows you to copy files to the UNIX and Linux machines

To create new directory in UNIX Linux named sccmclient, mkdir /sccmclient

To copy files to UNIX Linux machine, launch command prompt and change directory to the SCCM client source folder. Then Enter path_to_pscp\pscp.exe * root@172.31.100.200:/sccmclient The IP is the UNIX Linux IP

Before install the SCCM client, enter chmod +x install

SCCM client installation command ./install –mp sccm.domain.com –sitecode abc ccm-Universalx64.tar

Add –ignoreSHA256validation switch for:

• RHEL Version 4 (x86/x64)
• Solaris Version 9 (SPARC) and Solaris Version 10 (SPARC/x86)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 9 (x86)
• HP-UX Version 11iv2 (PA-RISH/IA64)

To read installation and operation log, tail –f /var/opt/microsoft/scxcm.log

To stop the ccmexecd, /etc/init.d/ccmexecd stop

To start the ccmexecd, /etc/init.d/ccmexecd start

To perform machine policy refresh, /opt/microsoft/configmgr/bin/ccmexec –rs policy

To perform inventory scan, /opt/microsoft/configmgr/bin/ccmexec –rs hinv

To install rpm package, rpm –i rpmpackage.rpm

To check the existence of rpm packages, rpm -qa | grep rpmpackage

To uninstall SCCM client, /opt/microsoft/configmgr/bin/uninstall

Exploring on Mobile Devices Settings in Office 365

In fact, it detects you have subscribed to Intune services and it will direct you to the Microsoft Intune administrator console. I’ll have to setup a new E3 trial again. Ouch… :)

Working on a custom Reporting User Role and Custom Security Scope???

Working on a custom limited Reporting User roles with new custom security scope?

Viewing report from Web is working fine but Reports node in Configuration Manager Console showing No items found?

Working on a new custom reporting user role and assign with All/Default security scope to the user/user group would not give you any problem to view the report in Configuration Manager Console. However, if you are also creating a new security scope and limited the user/user group to the new security scope, you would most probably hit the problem of No items found.

Tips:

Most likely you will have the configuration similar to the screen captured above. Limiting the user/user group to a collection and also with a new Security Scope.

Click on Associate assigned security roles with specific security scope and collections. Then select your custom Reporting user role and click Edit

 
Click on Add, and add the Default Security Scope

 
The Default security scope will then link to the custom reporting user role

Not to forget, most of us could forget this. When we creating a custom reporting user role, we copy the Read-only Analyst and removing all settings except Run Report. Please remember that it still require minimum Read permission on Site else you will hit the problem of No items found.

Bye bye No items found!!!!!

Could not connect to the RootDSE container in Active Directory. HRESULT=0x8007052E

I bumped into this error today with the Active Directory Forest Publishing to untrusted forest using a specific account instead of the computer account of the site server. HRESULT=0x8007052E simply means that incorrect username or password.

Resolution: Reconfigure the user account and password and verify the LDAP. For example, LDAP://datacenter.domain.com/CN=System Management,CN=System,DC=datacenter,DC=domain,DC=com

Tips: Type the complex password in a notepad and then copy and paste it to the password input :)