System Management

Do you know how Microsoft IT manages thousands of servers worldwide in multiple countries for a large number of departments and customers using SCCM 2007?
If no, then you should listen to this 30 minutes podcast: Microsoft IT Business Case for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 in a Data Center.

And here is the full article about this business case. I found it very interesting…

Today I came across an interesting problem in SCMM while deploying creating a Windows Vista image of reference computer. And again, SCCM 2007 displays the error with not much intuitive help.

I’m using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit integrated 2008 with SCCM 2007 when I need to deploy an operating system. At the end of the imported Task Sequence, after the wizards creates the .wim image, it copies the image to a share specified by me. During this step I received the following error: “Error while importing Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Task Sequence. Details: The ConfigMgr Provider reported an error”.

Checking smsprov.log I have found the error code – 5. Yes, 5 . From the log file: “Failed to make a copy of the source WIM file due to error 5”. Nice… what could I say? Shortly, error 5 is about permissions.

I started to play with share permission. Granted read permission to admin account I was using and to the sccm computer account but I had no success. Granted full control permissions to these accounts. Same error .

Well, the problem was because SCCM is accessing local shares using NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM account and not computer account (the shared folder was on the same computer). I granted full control permissions to SYSTEM account and next time I imported the task sequence to create an image of the reference computer, it was ok and the image was copied to my shared folder.

I just finished setting up this blog and will continue posting here instead of the blog on spaces: http://vitalie-ciobanu.spaces.live.com.

Mainly, I will write about System Center Configuration Manager and other System Center products when I will know them well enough. Of course there will be some personal posts sometimes, but I don’t want to make this blog a personal one or one of the many blogs that tells you “what is new on the market”.

If you’d like to see my recent posts, please visit that blog. For future posts, you should check this one.

Thank you for reading those few posts I write, I can’t do it everyday as I have work to do too

See you later, here.
Vit