SMS Despooler failed to merge delta to the compressed package

Posted on January 16, 2014 by admin

A few weeks back, a customer contacted me with an interesting problem, something that should be easily solved at first glance.

The customer had tried to update the boot-wim with new drivers, distributed it again, but when everything stopped working, they tried to reverse the changes, distributing the package once again. This resulted in the following error on all sites:

SMS Despooler failed to merge delta to the compressed package “P01000A2”. The operating system reported error 1: Incorrect function.
Possible cause: The destination drive is full.
Solution: Make more space available on that drive. SMS Despooler will attempt to merge the delta again during its next retry interval. Continue reading →

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Unable to start WDS – Error Code 2310

Posted on January 16, 2014 by admin

A few weeks ago, I got a call from a customer where the WDS service had stopped working on all SCCM-servers.

The reason for this was that the distribution of the boot-wim had gone wrong, the source version didn’t match the version on the server. (The solution to this will be posted in a different post, since it’s quite a big job to fix this.) (Can be found HERE)
But after the distribution of the boot-wim was successful to all distributionpoints, the WDS refused to start and gave the error code 2310. Continue reading →

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Exclude local group membership in USMT 4

Posted on September 30, 2013 by admin

After struggling with an odd problem with USMT, I’ve finally found a solution that works.
When running USMT, scanstate.exe to be more precise, on the old client, it automatically saves the users local group membership.

In this case, many users are local admin in the old environment, but are not supposed to be it in the new. Running a standard USMT will migrate local group membership and it’s not easy to find out how to remove this. Continue reading →

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Install applications and updates fail with error 0x80070005, ConfigMgr 2012

Posted on July 18, 2013 by admin

After seeing this error code in my smsts.log during the step “Install Software Updates” during OSD for no apparent reason, I searched the web for a solution with almost no result.
All I could find were suggestions to reinstall the WSUS and/or the SUP and other thredes that didn’t really match my error to 100%. Continue reading →

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Solve the issue where Windows 8 locks after one minute (Option two)

Posted on April 8, 2013 by admin

A few weeks ago I added a post on how to solve an issue where Windows 8 locks after one minute and displays the lockscreen.
Apparetly this didn’t work for everyone, so I decided to show you another thing might cause this to happen. Continue reading →

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Solve the issue where Windows 8 locks after one minute

Posted on March 15, 2013 by admin

I’ve gotten a question latley on how to solve an issue where Windows 8 locks after one minute of inactivity. This is something that is quite annoying as you might understand.

To solve this, you need to reset your security policies. (This works in 98% of the cases).
Start with opening the “User Accounts” located in the “Control Panel”.
Here you will find the option to reset the security policies, as marked in the image bellow. Continue reading →

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Add Dropbox and Google Drive as locations in Office 2013

Posted on January 11, 2013 by admin

UPDATE: A new version of this can be found HERE!

The full article and script can be found here at Technet.

Scenario

Both Dropbox and Google Drive have become more popular to share files with others and to keep an extra copy of documents, pictures and so on.
This Powershell script will add your Dropbox and Google drive folders as save locations in Microsoft Office 2013, directly under Save, Save As and Open. Continue reading →

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Customize the theme of Windows 8 with Powershell

Posted on January 11, 2013 by admin

The full article and the script can be found here at Technet.

Step 1: Start with opening a Powershell and type the following command Import-Module <path to script>, and press enter.
Click to enlarge Continue reading →

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