SCCM Install Error “The site server computer’s machine account does not…”
KB ID 0000296 Problem Seen while installing System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Error: Setup cannot complete the specified installation on this computer for the following reasons. The site server computer’s machine account does not have Administrator’s privileges on the SQL server selected for the site database installation. To install a Configuration Manager site, all servers must be in an active directory domain...
Message ID 6600: sms wsus configuration manager failed to configure upstream server
KB ID 0000313 Problem Seen in the SMS_WSUS_SYNC_MANAGER component status. Solution This is basically a comms/configuration error, so make sure if you have the firewall on, the correct ports are open! In my case I’d configured the SCCM server as per my own instructions here. But when I configured the Software Update Point (SUP) I’d told it to use Ports 80 and 443. 1. To check yours, click Start > Administrative Tools...
SBS – Outlook Web Access shows a 404.0 Error
KB ID 0000205 Problem SBS 2008 (which runs Exchange 2007) displays a 404 error when you try and view Outlook Web Access. https://sites/owa and https://localhost/owa don’t work Solution A 404 Error just means page not found, so there are lots of different reasons why this might happen, this is just one of many fixes. 1. On the SBS Server > Click Start > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager...
SBS – Alert – ‘The following disk has low idle time’
KB ID 0000583 Problem I got this alert forwarded to me, from a client that I’d put in new hard drives for a few week ago. Alert: The following disk has low idle time, which may cause slow response time when reading or writing files to the disk. Disk: {Number} {Drive Letter}: Review the Disk Transfers/sec and % Idle Time counters for the PhysicalDisk performance object. If the Disk Transfers/sec counter is consistently below 150...
Deploying Office 2010 via Group Policy
KB ID 0000464 Problem What used to be the simplest task, has now been overly complicated (Thanks Microsoft!) Simply deploying from a single .msi file would have been far too easy! This procedure uses group policy to install Microsoft Office 2010 via group policy. It uses the Microsoft preferred method of employing startup scripts. Below I’ve also disabled UAC, I found it was stopping my automated install, (If I ran the script...