Alex Ø. T. Hansen

29/02/2016

SCCM – Image Capture – Error 0x00004005

I had to capture a Windows 7 image in SCCM. When I tried to capture the image, i was getting the following error.

Task Sequence: Image Capture Wizard has failed with the error code (0x00004005)

The solution was pretty easy. It turned out that it was the product key that couldn’t be activated.

Alex Ø. T. Hansen

04/02/2016

SCCM – Task Sequence – Error: 0x80070490

Recently I have been doing a lot of SCCM work and deploying tests.
Some of the clients I tried to run a task sequence to, gave me the following error 0x80070490.

Alex Ø. T. Hansen

21/01/2016

SCCM 2012 R2 – Where are the client log files?

Lately I have been testing a new deployment sequence of Windows 10 from the System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012 R2.
There was a lot of new things to try, and therefor potential for errors.

Under each deployment failure I needed to look in the client logs, to investigate the problem.

Alex Ø. T. Hansen

18/01/2016

Exchange – Event ID 106 – Performance Counter Updating Error

Here’s just a quick post on removing the Event ID error 106 from your application logs on Exchange Servers.

You will properly at some point see the following in your event log:

ID: 106
Level: Error
Source: MSExchange Common
Machine: -
Message: Performance counter updating error. Counter name is Per-Tenant KeyToRemoveBudgets Cache Size, category name is MSExchangeRemotePowershell. Optional code: 3. Exception: The exception thrown is: System.InvalidOperationException: The requested Performance Counter is not a custom counter, it has to be initialized as ReadOnly.\

ID: 106

Level: Error

Source: MSExchange Common

Machine: -

Message: Performance counter updating error. Counter name is Per-Tenant KeyToRemoveBudgets Cache Size, category name is MSExchangeRemotePowershell. Optional code: 3. Exception: The exception thrown is: System.InvalidOperationException: The requested Performance Counter is not a custom counter, it has to be initialized as ReadOnly.\

This is caused because the performance counters cannot be loaded properly.

To correct this, do the following.

Alex Ø. T. Hansen

11/01/2016

Tutorial – Microsoft BitLocker Administration (MBAM) 1.0 – Installation and Configuration

I needed to install a test enviroment for Microsoft BitLocker Administration (MBAM) 1.0, to test an upgrade to 2.5 SP1.

Here is a short guide how to install and configure Microsoft BitLocker Administration (MBAM) 1.0.

Alex Ø. T. Hansen

“Network Path Not Found” while joining server to the domain

Recently I had a problem, where I couldn’t join a Windows Server to the domain. It displayed the following error.

Network Path Not Found

1	Network Path Not Found

There can be various reasons why this errors shows.

Mistype DNS configuration.
Firewall issues.
Wrong domain typed.

Even though I had all above correct, I still had the problem.

So I used the following commands in a cmd.exe to resolve the issue.

Alex Ø. T. Hansen

10/01/2016

SharePoint – WAS – Event ID 5021

I just had a customer who’s SharePoint application pool keep stopping.

We had the following output in the event log on the server:

The identity of application pool [AppPoolID] is invalid. The user name or password that is specified for the identity may be incorrect, or the user may not have batch logon rights. If the identity is not corrected, the application pool will be disabled when the application pool receives its first request.  If batch logon rights are causing the problem, the identity in the IIS configuration store must be changed after rights have been granted before Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) can retry the logon. If the identity remains invalid after the first request for the application pool is processed, the application pool will be disabled. The data field contains the error number.

The identity of application pool [AppPoolID] is invalid. The user name or password that is specified for the identity may be incorrect, or the user may not have batch logon rights. If the identity is not corrected, the application pool will be disabled when the application pool receives its first request. If batch logon rights are causing the problem, the identity in the IIS configuration store must be changed after rights have been granted before Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) can retry the logon. If the identity remains invalid after the first request for the application pool is processed, the application pool will be disabled. The data field contains the error number.

There can be 2 resolutions to this error, the following needs to be done.

Alex Ø. T. Hansen

Disabled/Disconnected mailboxes with PowerShell

Have you ever wanted to get all disconnected mailboxes from Exchange?

Here is a “short” PowerShell syntax, for exactly that:

Get-ExchangeServer | Where-Object {$_.IsMailboxServer -eq $true} | ForEach-Object { Get-MailboxStatistics -warningAction silentlyContinue -Server $_.Name | Where-Object {$_.DisconnectDate -ne $null}}

1	Get-ExchangeServer \| Where-Object {$_.IsMailboxServer -eq $true} \| ForEach-Object { Get-MailboxStatistics -warningAction silentlyContinue -Server $_.Name \| Where-Object {$_.DisconnectDate -ne $null}}

It checks only the mailbox servers in your Exchange farm, and finds the disconnected/disabled mailboxes.