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Recently had to create a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 template If you install Mcafee  VSE 8.8 the VMware customization to deploy a VM from the template fails. As checked Mcafee for now do not have nay solution for this problem and the only way to get the deployment using the VMware customization wizard working is by removing VSE 8.8 from the master image of Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hope this helps

Needed to export the Computer Name and all the local Admins for a particular OU Used the following Powershell script to export the details $computers = Get-ADComputer -SearchBase "OU=Servers,OU=Computers,OU=ABC,DC=XYZ,DC=Domain,DC=com" -Filter * | %{$_.name} foreach($computer in $computers) { $computer $s1 = $null $ADSIComputer = [ADSI]("WinNT://$computer,computer") $adminGroup  = $ADSIComputer.psbase.children.find('Administrators', 'Group') $adminMembers = $adminGroup.psbase.invoke("members") | %{$_.GetType().InvokeMember("Name",'GetProperty',$null,$_,$null)} | %{$s1 += $_ + ","} $computer + "," + $s1.Trim(",") >> .\LocalAdmins.csv } Hope this helps

We noticed that one of the updates kept failing to download  Logs were showing this: Successfully moved C:\Users\USER01~1\AppData\Local\Temp\7\CAB23C3.tmp to \\apps\Windows_Updates\Server_Updates\2016-12\c47f6681-2bec-4549-8b8c-29abb32467aa.1\windows8.1-kb3210137-x64.cab Software Updates Patch Downloader 19-12-2016 08:14:53 361508 (0x58424) Could not delete file '\\apps\Windows_Updates\Server_Updates\2016-12\c47f6681-2bec-4549-8b8c-29abb32467aa\windows8.1-kb3210137-x64.cab'.  Code 0x80070020 Software Updates Patch Downloader 19-12-2016 08:14:53 357888 (0x57600) Could not delete directory '\\apps\Windows_Updates\Server_Updates\2016-12\c47f6681-2bec-4549-8b8c-29abb32467aa'.  Code 0x80070091 Software Updates Patch Downloader 19-12-2016 08:14:53 357888 (0x57600) ERROR: DownloadContentFiles() failed with hr=0x80004005 Software Updates Patch Downloader 19-12-2016 08:14:53 357888 (0x57600) Even retrying download was not fixing this. In t...

One of our servers was losing the Local Admin settings as we control them using GPO (restricted Groups) We were receiving the following event on this particular server : Event ID 4098 Application Event Log The computer 'Administrators (built-in)' preference item in the 'Servers Local Admins {odjd9DBD-22AF-48EA-ADF5-F42ADE4182hst}' Group Policy Object did not apply because it failed with error code '0x80070534 No mapping between account names and security IDs was done.' This error was suppressed. To fix the issue we deleted all the folders from the following location and rebooted the server C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Group Policy\History Hope this helps.

We have a ePO superAgent serving as repository to another ePO deployment across Firewall. The repository was shared and permissions were in place to access it from the ePO server. When we added the repository as source for the ePO it did validate the credentials , however the ePO Wizard failed to list the content of the repositiry in the console. In order to get this working , we needed to create a new share on the SuperAgent instead of utilizing the SuperAgnet repository Then the ePO server configuration was modified to include the new share and everything worked fine after that. Hope this helps/

We faced issue where in Checkpoint IPS flagged certain traffic between ePO server and a remote repository (SuperAgent) and was rejected , thus causing file replication fail between ePO and SuperAgent over Port 8081 When we checked firewall for logs , it was particular identifying the traffic as SQL injection for HIPS content. As we checked HIPS content included files for HIPS and the ePO part that require SQL code for rules to be added / removed or modified in the ePO DB. In the end we had to put exception in IPS to  trust ePO traffic and everything worked fine. Hope this helps

If you wish to deploy a VM from template that resides on a host in one network to a host in another network across firewall you would need to open TCP/902 from the host where you have the Template to the one where you need to deploy the VM over. Hope this helps.