Servicing Stack Update ADR

Servicing Stack Updates can cause headaches for those with limited maintenance windows. These updates can be required as a pre-req for some monthly cumulative updates. Which means that your server will only see the SSU as an applicable update when the maintenance window rolls around. Since there is no required reboot it won’t see this …

Installing System Center Orchestrator 2019

This isn’t a step by step guide as most of the install is just clicking through the wizard. I wanted to cover some of the additional steps and pre-reqs that aren’t necessarily called out in Microsofts documentation. Microsoft docs for 2019- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/orchestrator/install?view=sc-orch-2019 There is also some helpful information in the 2012 docs not covered in …

PXE-09 Error

We recently began making the switch from Legacy BIOS to UEFI and have run into issues PXE booting in some of our locations. One of these issues showed up as PXE-E09 Could not allocate I/O buffers on our Lenovo ThinkPads.   This was only happening on some our machines and these machines would PXE boot …

Missing Applications

Since moving to ConfigMgr 1606 we have been experiencing an issue where some clients with applications advertised to the device would fail to install or show up in software center and software updates weren’t installing (the device would just stay in the unknown client check passed/active state indefinitely). Packages would still work on these clients …