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SCCM Failed to initiate installation of updates, error = 0x80040271

When you install windows using SCCM OSD , sometimes an agent will comeback up and you wont be able to initiate software distribution or Updates . We face an issue where a newly deployed system kept showing this error  , although the update did seem to have installed. "An error was encountered while attempting to install software updates" Updatedeploymnet.log showed this: InstallUpdates Initiated by user UpdatesDeploymentAgent 29-12-2015 12:22:17 1020 (0x03FC) Action not allowed in pause state UpdatesDeploymentAgent 29-12-2015 12:22:17 1020 (0x03FC) InstallUpdates failed, error 80040271 UpdatesDeploymentAgent 29-12-2015 12:22:17 1020 (0x03FC) Failed to initiate installation of updates, error = 0x80040271 UpdatesDeploymentAgent 29-12-2015 12:22:17 3280 (0x0CD0) In our case we have to stop SMS agent Host Service and then change the value of  following keys to 0 in registry Registry Location: HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\SM...

Error 266 was returned by WinVerifyTrust

Sometimes while installing application on Windows Server you may receive an error: Error 1330. A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file has an invalid digital signature Error 266 was returned by WinVerifyTrust In our case we had to install rootsupd.exe  on the server before  we could install the application http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/rootsupd.exe Hope this helps

Citrix XenApp is unable to retrieve the license server location

In our XenApp 6.5 HRP 4 Farm  ,we had 1 server behaving oddly Somehow it always showed load of 20000  (licensing) Error during login:  "Citrix XenApp is unable to retrieve the license server location" I tried a lot of things like recreating LHC Restarting server a couple of times Editing License server configuration using Role Manager However it Still kept staying on Load 20000 In the end i had to export the following Keys from a working XenApp Server and import it in the affected one , since the problematic server was missing these keys. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Citrix\IMA] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Policies\Citrix\IMA Hope this Helps 

Safari 9 on MacBook - Page 404 for Citrix Web Interface

If you have recently upgraded your MacBook to 10.11 (OS  El  Capitan  ) you may face an issue with Citrix Web Interface 5.4 with Safari 9.0 Users when logging through Netscaler can get error 404 This only happens Safari 9.0 , if we use Firefox on the Same MacBook we don't have such issues. For now what i have seen is if you upgrade the OS X to 10.11.1 (Safari 9.0.1) it fixes the issue. Hope this Helps

SCCM Console on Server 2012 R2 cannot initialize mmc

Installing SCCM 2007 SP2 on Server 2012 R2 Terminal Server Since we are installing the console on the Terminal Server we need to Change user mode Change user /install Run Splash.hta Choose to Install console And Next For SQL reporting Services reports to show on the console , we will need to Install R2 bits on the Terminal Server where Console is added Also install R3 bits on the server If you get the error , cannot initialize mmc You would first need to install .net 3.5/2.0 Also you may need to register these dll using the following commands C:\windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.50727\installutil.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager Console\AdminUI\bin\AdminUI.ResourceExplorerConsole.dll" /logfile=C:\inst.log  /showcallstack C:\windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.0.50727\installutil.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Configuration Manager Console\AdminUI\bin\AdminUI.WqlQueryEngine.dll" /logfile=C:\inst.log  /showca...

Event ID 1521 and 1511 on Windows server - Unable to browse file shares

We had a strange issue with some of our servers , we were unable to browse any fileshares No error showed up , it seemed like the server kept trying and nothing showed up We tried to access the Fileshare with IP's / DNS names / FQDN --  but nothing worked However ping /RDP to file servers worked fine. I tried rebooting the server (a couple of them) that had his issue but this did not solve the problem either. I was seeing the following events in Application logs on some of our terminal servers which faced this issue (not all) Event ID:1521 Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you log off. This error may be caused by network problems or insufficient security rights.  DETAIL - The network path was not found. Event ID:1511 Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you...

An error occurred while loading the task sequence Error 8004100a

We received the following error message while editing Task Sequences in SCCM 2007 It didnt matter where you are running the console from . Adminuilog An error occurred while loading the task sequence Description = "Failed to call SMS_TaskSequence::LoadFromXml due to error 8004100a."; ErrorCode = 1078462229; File = "e:\\nts_sms_fre\\sms\\siteserver\\sdk_provider\\smsprov\\ssptspackage.cpp"; Line = 2932; Operation = "ExecMethod"; ParameterInfo = "SMS_TaskSequencePackage"; ProviderName = "WinMgmt"; StatusCode = 2147749889; Restarting the WMI service on Primary site server fixed this error for us. Hope this helps.