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SCCM: Package Requires a newer version of source files and the new compressed files haven't arrived yet,

For a couple of days i have been facing an issue with some packages not getting updated on the secondary Site DP The message i kept seeing in the distmgr log on the Secondary Site server (DP) was: Package ABC001D2 requires a newer version (2) of source files and the new compressed files haven't arrived yet, current version is 1, skip X:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager\inboxes\distmgr.box\INCOMING\10xVQPN1.PKG I tried a lot of things like deleting the DP , adding the DP again , Refresh DP However finally these steps fixed this one for us: Before yyou begin check "All active package distributions" Report , it should show the package with Issue. 1.Go to the distmgr inbox on the DP that you have issue with Look for the .PCK file for the package and delete it. e.g ABC001D2.PCK 2.Backup the SCCM DB and then run the following queries: Delete from pkgstatus where SiteCode = 'SEC' and ID = 'ABC001D2' DELETE from PkgServ...

SCOM 2012 Reporting Pane Empty

We faced an issue with SCOM 2012 SP1 Reporting Pane. When an Admin user was launching the console from one of the client Machines that had SCOM 2012 console installed locally and Clicking on the Reporting pane , it didn't display the reporting tree structure. Just blank reporting Pane was displayed. SCOM 2012 SP1 console was installed on the client machine and the user used Run As different user (the user that had admin privileges in SCOM) As we checked more into the issue , it seemed that IE proxy was causing it. We opened IE under the Admin user Account credentials (Run As Different user) , changed the proxy settings to include correct proxy details. After that the reports tree showed up for the Admin user. Hope this helps.

Re-install McAfee Agent using SCCM Package

We needed to re-install McAfee agent on all the servers as they were not reporting to ePO server properly. In order to do so we used SCCM to advertised a package that we created which re-installed the ePO agent. The package was saved on the FileServer and contained : FramePkg.exe EpoReinstall.cmd The content of EPOResinstall.cmd : CD "C:\Program Files (x86)\McAfee\Common Framework" FrmInst.exe /Forceuninstall /s "%~0\..\FramePkg.exe" /install=agent /S We set the advertisement to run the package directly from the DP. Hope this helps.

Citrix StoreFront 2.0 Event ID 17 and 12 Timeout

We are facing an issue with Storefront 2.0 . Everything seemed to be slow, authentication , enumeration , launch etc. The events we saw were: Event Id 17 An error occurred while contacting the Discovery Service. System.Net.WebException, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089 The operation has timed out Url: http://StoreSRV01/Citrix/XD7PoC/discovery ExceptionStatus: Timeout Event ID 12 An error occurred while contacting the Discovery Service. System.Net.WebException, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089 The operation has timed out Url: http://StoreSRV1/Citrix/XD7PoC/discovery ExceptionStatus: Timeout It supposedly was caused by McAfee VSE 8.8 Update 2. We tried uninstalling McAfee VSE 8.8 U2 and installing the older 8.7 version and it does make some difference. Not sure what the perfect solution is as of now. Hope this helps.

XenDesktop 7 Director localhost issue

We faced an issue with xendesktop 7 director. When the admin user logged on to the director server and launched it from the start menu it opens http://localhost/Director As soon as the user provides credentials , he's returned back to logion screen for Director. There is no error in the event log or IIS logs. We got it fixed by using  http://servername/Director  instead of  http://localhost/Director You can change the Shortcut in Start menu to http://servername/Director This may have something to do with the IIS , but not sure. If you face this issue , you can try the above steps and see if that works for you Hope this helps.

Psexec Help

We had a requirement to create 10GB files on 200 machines immediately  for testing. psexec was used to do this remotely. The command: psexec.exe -u username -p passpord @list.txt \\FileSrv01\Sharename\CreateFile.cmd Here are the steps: Created a batch file and saved it on a file share which all users have access to . FileServer Share  ----   \\FileSrv01\Sharename\ Batch File ---  CreateFile.cmd The batch file had this content: fsutil file createnew C:\test.bak 10000000000  The Above command creates around 9GB file immediately 1.Logged in to one of the machines with admin privilege 2.Copied psexec.exe  to folder C:\temp 3.Created a file list.txt which had all the machines where i wanted to run the batch file.Kept it in the same folder. 4.Executed the command from command prompt within C:\temp directory psexec.exe -u username -p passpord @list.txt \\FileSrv01\Sharename\CreateFile.cmd Hope thi...

Xendesktop 7 Machines Shut down during Peak Hours

Sometimes you might have a situation wherein you have a dedicated Catalog with 100's of machines. You set the delivery group for Peak hours and do not want any machines to be turned off. However you will notice that machines are still shutting down during the peak hours  Set-BrokerDesktopGroup "Your Delivery Group Name" -PeakBufferSizePercent 100 e.g Set-BrokerDesktopGroup "ABCDesktops" -PeakBufferSizePercent 100 You may want to test with different values for PeakBufferSizePercent In our case i choose 100 Hope this helps.