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We were not seeing any new updates under "updates and servicing"  node in configmgr 1606 CB console Checked the logged on user had correct permissions and scopes assigned. When looking at the dmpdownloader.log file found the following The site is under offline mode SMS_DMP_DOWNLOADER 5/29/2018 3:49:36 PM 16416 (0x4020) Looking for file D:\SCCM\EasySetupPayload\offline\ConfigMgr.Update.Manifest.cab SMS_DMP_DOWNLOADER 5/29/2018 3:49:36 PM 16416 (0x4020) Looking for file D:\SCCM\EasySetupPayload\offline\ConfigMgr.Update.Manifest.cab SMS_DMP_DOWNLOADER 5/29/2018 3:50:36 PM 16416 (0x4020) HasIntuneSubscription: Site has no Intune subscription. SMS_DMP_DOWNLOADER 5/29/2018 3:51:07 PM 13800 (0x35E8) Looking for file D:\SCCM\EasySetupPayload\offline\ConfigMgr.Update.Manifest.cab SMS_DMP_DOWNLOADER 5/29/2018 3:51:36 PM 16416 (0x4020) Looking for file D:\SCCM\EasySetupPayload\offline\ConfigMgr.Update.Manifest.cab SMS_DMP_DOWNLOADER 5/29/2018 3:52:36 PM 164

Faced an issue where in a ESXi host keep disconnecting form the vCenter When we reconnect , it does connect back however loses connectivity again after few minutes Although we could still ping and connect (RDP) to the VM's on the host. It felt somehow the heartbeats form the host to vCenter were lost as the Host was behind the firewall We needed to enable UDP/902 between the host and vCenter to get the issue fixed Hope this help

Every time i was running the Configmgr console i was getting the following error Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement has stop working. Please close the program The issue in our case was C: was running out of space. Add some more space/cleared logs solved the issue for us Hope this helps

For patching issues caused by Mar 2018 KB's on Server 2008 This is what have worked for us for now: Create a sccm package to deploy the following vbs script on all 2008 R2 servers collection Run it before the patches are applied (it will delete SlotPersistentInfo key if that exists under HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI\<deviceid>\<subdeviceid>\Device Parameters Let patches install Reboot The key will be recreated automatically after the reboot ************************** Script: Dim strPciFileVersion Dim WindirFilePath set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WindirFilePath = WshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%WinDir%")   Dim fs Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")   strPciFileVersion = fs.getfileversion(WindirFilePath & "\\system32\\drivers\\pci.sys") Dim strAryFileVersion1 strAryFileVersion1 = Split(strPciFileVersion, ".") If (strAryFileVersion1(0) = 6

Was facing a strange issue where in some of the patches were failing to download . When checked the patchmanager.log found the follwoing error message Download destination = \\sccmshare\patches\ebbbd800-1e36-4aa5-8b61-8c7f049ba548.1\EnableTask.exe . Software Updates Patch Downloader 3/14/2018 5:01:20 PM 7716 (0x1E24) Contentsource = http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/updt/2018/02/enabletask_ca8afac7f3ba90ff72a10a27fcfa3a67edcb83a3.exe . Software Updates Patch Downloader 3/14/2018 5:01:20 PM 7716 (0x1E24) Downloading content for ContentID = 16798547,  FileName = EnableTask.exe. Software Updates Patch Downloader 3/14/2018 5:01:20 PM 7716 (0x1E24) HttpSendRequest failed HTTP_STATUS_FORBIDDEN or HTTP_STATUS_DENIED Software Updates Patch Downloader 3/14/2018 5:01:20 PM 5440 (0x1540) Download http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/software/updt/2018/02/enabletask_ca8afac7f3ba90ff72a10a27fcfa3a67edcb83a3.exe to It was specifical