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| - | ====== Fixing Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager when it saves a bad server name ====== | ||
| - | <adm abstract Old blog post> | ||
| - | This article was originally published on April 15, 2011. | ||
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| - | I’m a big scary IT contractor now, working for a relatively small Texas-based company on a contract for the USDA. It’s pretty awesome, and I’ve learned all kinds of things since I started here. One of the cooler tools made available to us is Microsoft System Center, which allows for a single application to manage a huge variety of tasks, including pushing updates to users, working with virtual servers, and installing software remotely. It also has an awesome remote control feature that allows working on a customer’s machine without having to log them out and use regular RDP (remote desktop). | ||
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| - | I had the client console installed, but it never worked, mostly because my user account wasn’t in the right domain group, so I didn’t have access rights to connect to the MSC server. Then it turned out that I had a typo in my server hostname, which was causing the SCCM application to crash every single time I loaded it. | ||
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| - | Since I couldn’t get the application to stay open long enough to rename the server it was connecting to by default, I figured I’d just uninstall it, which would (theoretically) wipe out any settings that had been created for the application. | ||
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| - | Not so. | ||
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| - | I mean, really, Microsoft, //really//? It’s just good manners to take any registry edits and config files with you when your application’s uninstaller is used. | ||
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| - | <adm danger Always proceed with caution when editing the registry. Mistakes can break things!></adm> | ||
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| - | It turns out that I had to search through the registry for the bad server name, rename it, and presto! My client console works perfectly. If you’re having a similar issue, the server string is located in ''HKCU\Software\Microsoft\ConfigMgr\Admin UIMRU\DefaultSite''. Change ''ServerName'' to whatever the correct name is, and you should be back in business. | ||
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| - | Maybe the System Center 2012 client uninstaller will actually, you know, //uninstall everything//. | ||
