System Center Configuration Manager Client Deployment Problems

James.Kindon — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:31:00 GMT

One of the bugs that I have come across so far with config manager, is the client installation push for the SMS agent....Whilst the collections will poll Active Directory and update thelmselves with machines, right clicking either a collection, or an actual client machine and selecting "install agent", leaves you wondering where your agent is - 24 hours later!....The same can be said when trying to manually install the client agent on a client machine or server....

After trauling and trauling, reinstalls from scratch using two different environments, I discovered this blog which resolved our issues.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/configmgrsetup/thread/24029fc2-6898-4d99-81cf-301c339f9784/

Seems that this fix so far is not officially documented by MS, but I can imagine there are a stack of people who are running into this problem on a 64 bit Windows Server 2008 Platform, Hope this can help you out in your environments

The Client install log (located in the System Centre Install Folder) will display the following
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From the client's CCMSetup.log

Failed to correctly recieve a WEBDAV request

Failed to successfully complete HTTP request (StatusCode at WinHttpQueryHeaders: 405)

Sending Fallback Status Point message, STATEID='301'
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The Solution....
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%windir%\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config

1. Open the applicationHost.config file to edit it.

2. Search for "Handlers accesspolicy"

3. Paste the following information on the next line

<add name="WebDAV" path="*" verb="PROPFIND,PROPPATCH,MKCOL,PUT,COPY,DELETE,MOVE,LOCK,UNLOCK" modules="WebDAVModule" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="None" />
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Good luck

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System Center Configuration Manager Client Deployment Problems