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Forums: OSD - storflt.sys error - Windows 7

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:48:14 GMT

I am attempting to deploy Windows 7 x64 Enterprise to a Hyper-V virtual machine using OSD/PXE. The deploy task sequence completes successfully, but when the deployed VM reboots, I get the following error:

File: \WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\storflt.sys

Status: 0xc0000359

Info: Windows failed to load because a critical system driver is missing, or corrupt.

I have tried deploying the VM with both a OSD capture image and the install image. Both images generate this error. I have tried restarting the deployed VM in safe mode and still get this error.

I know from research that storflt.sys is a virtual storage filter driver for Windows Server 2008 used by Hyper-V guests. However, when I check the reference Windows 7 VM for the captured image, that driver is not present in C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS.

I am running ConfigMgr 2007 R2 on W2K8 R2. Hyper-V is fully patched RTM version.

Anybody have any ideas on this error?

Thanks.

Forums: Reporting on Bitlocker usage in your enviroment

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:39:55 GMT

Working on group policy with some folks and a good question came up: How can we report on Bitlocker usage in our environment? Need to know items are:

Which volumes are unprotected
If a volume was protected but is no longer, who made the change

Anyone doing any collection and reporting in this regard with ConfigMgr?

Forums: List of recurring tasks (daily, weekly, monthly) for ConfigMgr 2007

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:20:04 GMT

Does any have a list of recommended recurring administrator tasks for ConfigMgr 2007? I am trying to gather this info for an internal operations guide to assist our administrators with learning about how to care for SCOM and SCCM systems.

Forums: Discovery Methods

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:48:50 GMT

Is it possible to have dual Active Directory security group discovery going in sccm r2?

Jason

Forums: SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2007 Migration with a new server name

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:54:02 GMT

Hi all,

I need to move SCCM from an existing server to a new server which has a new name. Unfortunately it is not an option to keep the same server name and I fully am well aware that is not supported to backup the sccm server and import it into a new server with a new name.

So here is my thought.....

What if I stood up SCCM up on the new server with a new site name and site code. Imported any custom collections from the original server, created my packages as on the old server, then run the AD discovery to import the computers.

Once the computers were in the new site, point them to the new site code. Once all are working on the new site code, decomission the old sccm server.

Thoughts? Does anyone disagree or have you run into this before and have a better solution?

Forums: query that returns all SQL servers

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:14:55 GMT

I need a query that returns all SQL servers installed on the site does anyone know one?

Thanks

Forums: Re: query that returns all SQL servers

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:32:03 GMT

select * from v_SystemResourceList where RoleName = 'SMS SQL server'

Forums: RE: Query AD Group

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:31:46 GMT

my thing is when a user calls the helpdesk to request office 2010 then the tech will add the object to the group in ad and software will get deployed. is there another way this can be done. the helpdesk will not have access to sccm at all.

jason

Forums: RE: Query AD Group

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:32:50 GMT

Would AD security group discovery set at every hour bog down sccm. What type of impacts would it have on sccm?

Forums: Re: System Mgmt Container - Does it have to be at the root and why?

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:04:06 GMT

Very little data gets put into the container. Each MP, SLP, and site will create objects there along with an object for every boundary (if I remember correctly). I understand the investigation, but what's the driving concern? Are you afraid one IT department can impact another?

Forums: RE: Re: System Mgmt Container - Does it have to be at the root and why?

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:59:32 GMT

Thanks for the update. The concern is definitely each school doesn't want to be impacted by the other. The schools only want to see what they manage and not be convulated by everyone else's data. They also don't want other schools to potentially have access to their systems.

Forums: Renaming Primary Site Host name (Windows) Help needed!

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:43:14 GMT

Hi.

Kinda on the "fresh" side in regards to SCCM and need some advice.

Whats involved, or maybe I should ask, is it possible to, rename the windows host name the SCCM Primary Site server is sitting on?

ie SCCMSRV01 to be renamed to CCS-AUSCCM without killing SCCM.

Company wants to standardise the host naming convention and our SCCM Primary server is the last to be done. All secondary servers have been built new.

Can this be done?

Forums: Re: Renaming Primary Site Host name (Windows) Help needed!

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:33:35 GMT

ONly option for standardization is restoring the sccm server.Take SCCM backup and restore it on diferent server.

You may refer

http://microsoftteched.com/2010/02/01/site-repair-wizard/

Forums: Query AD Group

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:47:49 GMT

I have a collection named adobe 9.3 and i want to query a group in AD called adobe reader 9.3 I want the computers that get dropped in that AD group to sync with the collection every 5 min. to deploy adobe reader.

Is it possible?

Jason

Forums: System Mgmt Container - Does it have to be at the root and why?

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:44:11 GMT

We are not the domain adminstrator's at our site, but we have an OU for our division.
The domain administrator wants to put the System Management container under our OU and not at the root.

We've researched it and we can see "How", but we can't figure out the "Why" it needs to have full rights and why it needs to be at the root.

Does anyone know if it will work at a sub-container or if it will only work at the root and the purpose of it?

His plan is to give each OU administrator, their own Systems Mgmt container within their OU. Will it work that way?

Mark Henderson
Emory University

Forums: Re: System Mgmt Container - Does it have to be at the root and why?

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:42:54 GMT

Thanks for the info, but can someone answer this.

We're 1 University with 1 domain (which contains all the users and managed by central IT) and several schools that have their own IT departments and only manage their computers. They each have their own containers (which contains their workstation objects) and only have rights to that. Central IT will extend the schema. Each school's IT will have their own SCCM environments and they don't care to see any of the others schools data.

So the question is: Will their be any shared data in the System Mgmt container with this scenario. We do not want any shared data between the schools. Also, will there be a lot of data put into this container?

Forums: Upgrade Path to ConfigMgr vNext

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:57:33 GMT

Hey guys, we're making a budget for next year and I have a question about ConfigMgr vNext. Is there going to be an upgrade path from ConfigMgr 2007 R2? Will we be able to actually upgrade or is it going to be side-by-side migration?

We need to sort out whether we will need new servers or could maybe upgrade on our existing hardware. These servers are only like a year old, so we can use them for quite a bit longer.

Thanks!

Forums: Re: System Mgmt Container - Does it have to be at the root and why?

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:57:40 GMT

The only things that needs write access to the system management container are your site servers. They create (and update) objects there all the time. This needs to be in a well-known, constant location so that clients and certain other specific site roles can look up information using these objects; e.g., site boundaries. It makes sense in AD to delegate and separate things out, but that doesn't make sense in this case because the objects created in AD for ConfigMgr aren't about security or authentication, they are about service and information lookup.

Forums: Re: System Mgmt Container - Does it have to be at the root and why?

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:40:53 GMT

Kent is, of course correct, this is need to be here when you update the Schema for SCCM. But your Domain Admin could give you rights to this folder. However after the Schema has been extended I see little reason why you would need to revisit the System Management Container afterwards.

Forums: Re: System Mgmt Container - Does it have to be at the root and why?

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:40:39 GMT