philipnet

Sometimes the answer to the most confounding problem, is the simplest thing in the world.

Or at least that’s what I found when I tried resetting up my SMS test bed.

I like building things (and rebuilding them) so I think nothing of wiping Active Directory and re-installing software. The same goes for SMS. Except, as one has done this before, one thinks that there’s no need to follow the instructions – one can remember it all!

Well one can’t. Or at least I can’t. As, for the last few days, I’ve been troubleshooting why clients won’t install on my test SMS setup. There’s no problem with manually installing the client, so what’s going wrong?

In the status messages for the SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER was reporting event code 3014 with the message “The operating system reported error 1: Incorrect function”.

Well, putting a few choices phrases into Google brought me to their HTML version of the “Advanced Client Installation with the Client Push Installation Wizard”. A quick skim revealed that the suggestion if you were getting event number 3014 was to check the permissions of the SMS installation account.

It was at that point that the revelation hit me. I hadn’t made that account a Domain Admin. So of course it couldn’t connect and install the software on the other computers.

Doh!