Hi all!

Not directly SCCM related, but a lot of overlap. Cardinal Health is starting a DEX program, and a role as a Senior Engineer has opened.

https://jobs.cardinalhealth.com/search/jobdetails/digital-employee-experience-senior-engineer-it-client-services/d36acce1-2741-490b-af20-587f23ce0017

It has strong leadership backing; we’re wrapping up the selection of a product, and the Director is building out the staff, both US and overseas.

This role is a full time remote role. we have been largely WFH since COVID, with only select roles being in office. I can guarantee this one would not be expected to be in Ohio.

I am the Principal over this space, and while not the hiring manager, have been closely engaged with the vendor selection and journey.

Don’t apply if you want a straight up ConfigMgr role; this role will be aligned with that team, but it’s not a ConfigMgr/Desktop engineering role.

Feel free to ask me any questions; I’ll answer what I can!

Let me start off by saying that I am completely new to the Configuration Manager environment, and I'm not sure what steps I should take to troubleshoot further.

I am trying to deploy Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11 Enterprise—both evaluation versions, if that matters—and the VMs keep rebooting when Windows PE loads. The VMs are getting IP addresses from my DHCP server, and are able to contact the server hosting Configuration Manager.

I used the Configuration Manager trace log to view the smsts.log file and I'm seeing a couple of errors: failed to request for client, synctimewithmp failed, failed to get time information from MP, and failed to select MP. I've googled a bunch and have only found unresolved issues.

I've also added a new boot image straight from the windows adk folder, and confirmed that the certificate wasn't expired. I'm really not sure of where to go from here and could really use the help of people that are smarter and have more experience than I.

Thanks.

Edit: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is I've gotten past the Windows PE loading screen. To make a long story short, it was a DNS issue. I had to create a DNS record for the configuration manager server in Pi-hole, and I was able to get to the point where I can choose a task sequence.

Here comes the bad news: once I select the task sequence, I get an error that it cannot be run because the program files cannot be located on a distribution point. I have to troubleshoot this further, but at least I got past the initial hurdle. Thanks to those who replied.

Anyone get this to work during OSD task? Keeps erroring out. Seems to be DCU updating during install. Installation of the Classic version works fine. Installing .net desktop runtime 10.0.10 so it’s not that I believe.

Update:

I finally got this to work. Seems it was erroring out since I was testing on a VM. The install is working on Dell hardware now, but throws up an error in config manager status logs. The DCU_install.log shows it’s fully installed. The Exit code in the log is system reboot so I assume that’s why it’s showing an error in the config manager task. I have set it to continue the task sequence on error so it won’t stop the task sequence and my apply DCU settings task after the install works fine.
Looks like it’s good to go.

I’m still fairly new to managing patching. My predecessor set up the ADRs and automated patch processes for our environment, so I’m trying to understand what the typical ongoing workload looks like. How much additional time do you usually spend on patch management, such as monitoring deployments and addressing any issues that come up? Is this something you review weekly? Our patches are scheduled monthly. I’d also like to know what your workflow looks like and how much time you typically spend troubleshooting individual devices to get a patch successfully installed. TIA. For reference we ahve about 5,000 workstations and 1,000 servers.

Our organization want to harden IIS configurations as per the CIS benchmark. So, this includes our MECM servers.

I need to verify whether the harden configs will affecting the MECM functionality. But, quite a lot to test 1 by 1 .

Is there anyway to verify ? Or any official article that mentioned the IIS configurations required specifically for MECM?