SCCM 2012 Site Server Troubleshooting FAQs

This page contains the various categories for the SCCM 2012 Site Server Troubleshooting FAQs.

Setup Downloader

• “An error has occurred while attempting to download or verify required prerequisite components and Setup cannot continue. Review the configmgrsetup.log file for further details.”
• “The specified path does not exist” error when trying to run the Setup Downloader

Prerequisite Checker

• Errors
  • “Configuration Manager Setup requires that the site server computer has administrative rights on the SQL Server and management point computers.”
  • “Domain membership” Error generated by the Prerequisite Checker
  • “SQL Server sysadmin rights” Error generated by the SCCM 2012 Prerequisite Checker
  • Why is the “Primary FQDN” Error generated by the SCCM 2012 Prerequisite Checker?
  • Upgrade from SCCM 2012 RTM to SP1 fails with “Microsoft Remote Differential Compression (RDC) library must be registered for Configuration Manager site server installation”

• Warnings
  • “Active Directory Domain Functional Level Check” Warning generated by the SCCM 2012 Prerequisite Checker
  • “Schema extensions” Warning generated by the Prerequisite Checker
  • “Verify site server permissions to publish to Active Directory” Warning generated by the SCCM 2012 Prerequisite Checker
  • “Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) language” Warning generated by the Prerequisite Checker
• General
  • Why does nothing happen when I run the Prerequisite Checker?
  • Why if I double click the Prerequisite Checker in Windows Explorer does nothing happen?
  • Why if I run the Prerequisite Checker from a Command Prompt does nothing happen?
  • Why does the Prerequisite Checker keep prompting me to Restart the Computer when I’ve already done it several times?

Site Server Installation

• General
  • Why do I see ‘Configuration Manager Setup Bootstrapper’ in Task Manager when Setup has finished installing my Site Server?

Primary Sites

• Why am I unable to specify the location of the Site Database Files when installing a R2 Primary Site?

Secondary Sites

• Secondary Site fails with “Could not connect SQL Server ‘master’ db.”

Components

• SMS Discovery Data Manager
  • Why does Discovery Data Manager spend so much time rebuilding .NCF files for other Primary Sites and their Child Sites when ConfigMgr 2012 starts?
  • Why does the “SMS Discovery Data Manager” component take so long to start processing DDRs after start-up?

Upgrades

• TESTDBUPGRADE
  • “ERROR: SQL Native client 11 is not installed on local machine. SQL Server Native Client; Error; Need install Sql Server Native Client 2012, before run SETUP /TESTDBUPGRADE.”
  • “Unsupported ConfigMgr database version” error when running TESTDBUPGRADE

R2

• “Error: The SMS Provider reported an error” when trying to create new Collections following an upgrade to SCCM 2012 R2 SP1 CU2
• “You can run this software only on a Configuration Manager central administration site server or a Configuration Manager stand-alone primary site server” error when trying to upgrade a Primary Site from SCCM 2012 SP2 to R2 SP1
• Replication fails between Sites after upgrading CAS to R2 SP1
• Why has my Primary Site stopped processing Status Messages since I upgraded it to R2?

Uninstalls

• “ERROR: Failed to execute SQL Server query: EXEC spSwitchReserverRangeSite N'<Site_Code>’ERROR: Failed to contact the CAS server to detach” when attempting to uninstall a Child Primary Site