SCCM 2007 Post 1 Hotfix By Category

R Jackson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:20:52 GMT

If you have already deployed SCCM 2007 SP1 here are a few fixes by category that might help you determine which ones are critical in your environment. Hope this helps. Hotfix List - Post SP1 Feature /Component Affected KB 970242 - Some attributes of a...(read more)

Client Install Fails When Connecting To Windows 2008

R Jackson — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:16:55 GMT

Problem: SCCM 2007 SP1 Client Installation Fails W/ WEBDAV Error in the ccmsetup.log when connecting to Windows 2008 Server Failed to successfully complete HTTP request. (StatusCode at WinHttpQueryHeaders: 405) ccmsetup 1/28/2008 Action...(read more)

MMS 2009 - SCCM 2007 Case Studies

R Jackson — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:04:00 GMT

Attention SCCM Community! MMS 2009 is approaching and I have the great task of presenting a session titled, “SCCM 2007 Case Studies” again for the 4 th year in a row. I understand the value of community input so I would like to get involvement from the...(read more)

Hinv Not Being Updated But Sinv Data Is Up-To-Date

R Jackson — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:18:00 GMT

This blog will focus on a common problem that many customers have experienced over the past year related to inventory. If you have ever had to trouble figuring out why software inventory was reporting and not hardware inventory then I recommend you review...(read more)

TRSCLEAN TOOL

R Jackson — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:00:00 GMT

I introduced a new tool at MMS 2007 during my session called TRSCLEAN to reduce the size of large TRS files created by the issue outline in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article titled, “You experience a performance problem in Replication Manager of System Management Server 2003, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926617. "

For information please review my previous blog posting. Today I want to give you some important information about using the TRSCLEAN tool and "-f" switch. I would also like to give credit to the developer of this tool (Franck Michou a Escalation Engineer at Microsoft). Thank You for sharing with the community.

What does -f Update TRS for KB926617 switch mean?

After hotfix KB926617 (SP2 only) TRSCLEAN MUST be used with "-f" in order to convert the TRS file to the new key format introduced by the hotfix.

In order to prevent duplicate records some "=" are now (now=after fix) replaced by "_" as multiple "=" in the records were breaking the key of the records.

Retrieval of records using the key was not working properly so records were only added thus causing the growth of the TRS files.

The benefit of '-f' is that EXISTING records will be updated (and reused). If this switch is not used all the pre-hotfix records will remain unchanged.

Moving forward after the hotfix and the "-f" switch new records using the new key format will be created and updated correctly.

TRS Files Affect REPLMGR Performance – Knowledge Base Article 926617

R Jackson — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:07:00 GMT

This was a case I covered at MMS 2007 in San Diego, CA which has generated a lot of interest. I have received many follow up emails and inquiries for more information, therefore this will be my first case study blog.

Company Profile

Company B

SMS2003 SP2

120 Sites (primary and secondary)

3 – Tier Hierarchy

Problem

After a recent upgrade to SP2 TRS files increase by 70% in size. In large environment with many SMS sites this can affect site server performance.

The side effect of this problem is replication manager will suffer a performance degradation as the TRS files grow larger creating a backlog of files in the sms\inboxes\replmgr.box.

Explanation

· This is a known issue and can happen during an upgrade or package source update cycle. An upgrade or package source update cycle may not be the actual cause but are just triggers that can cause this problem.

· The hotfix will prevent future growth of the TRS files.

· The hotfix does not reduce the current size of the TRS file. It only prevents future growth.

· TRS files are transaction files which keep a record of serial numbers, package ids and site control changes from site-to-site. For example when you create a package the package ID number is recorded in the database and a transaction ID that corresponds to that id is record in the TRS file.

· Here is an example of what a TRS file with duplicate entries would look like. If you open the TRS file you can find the following section.

[PKGSTATUSDATA] section:

ABC|["DISPLAY=\\SMSSERVER\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=ABC"]\\SMSSERVER\|2=1343

ABC|["DISPLAY=\\SMSSERVER\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=ABC"]\\SMSSERVER\|2=1345

ABC|["DISPLAY=\\SMSSERVER\"]MSWNET:["SMS_SITE=ABC"]\\SMSSERVER\|2=1346

Prerequisite For Hotfix

You must be currently running SMS 2003 SP2

The hotfix only works with sites already running SP2

Who should apply the hotfix?

1. First, anyone who manages a large environment and notices the size of the TRS files size seems larger than normal.

2. Second, you are experiencing a significant decrease in performance on the server and it takes you a long time to open the sms\inboxes\replmgr.box\history folder.

3. Third, anyone who has a large environment with multiple sites should probably consider applying the hotfix even if performance is not an issue right now, because the hotfix with prevent the TRS files from growing.

What can you do to reduce the size of the TRS files if they are large?

Use the TRSCLEAN.EXE tool to reduce the current size

Step by Step Resolution

1. Run the SMS Backup Task to backup the SMS site

2. Stop the SMS Executive & Site Component Manager Services

3. Apply Hotfix, “You experience a performance problem in Replication Manager of Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003” http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926617

4. Run TRSCLEAN w/ (must include –f switch to remove extra space in TRS file) to reduce size of TRS file. You can also run the TRSCLEAN.exe /? With the help switch for more information. In the example below I run the TRSclean.exe against my ABC site without the extension in offline mode.

C:\ >trsclean/?

TRSClean - Clean SMS 2003 .TRS
TRSClean [-a]|[-t CSC] [-o] [-f] [-v]
-a       All sites reporting to this site
-t CSC   Specific Child Site Code (3 bytes, uppercase)
-o       Offline mode (no WMI access, removes duplicate records in [PKGSTATUSDATA] and unused sectio
ns)
-f       Update TRS for KB926617
-v       Verbose mode

C:\>trsclean -v -t abc
Verbose Mode
Cleaning only file abc.TRS
No TRS update (see KB926617)
Offline mode (or this computer is not a SMS server)

Processing file abc
Saving .TRS as file: .\abc.TRS.4_5_2007_4_15_40_PM
*** Starting cleanup - 4:15:48 PM ***

Found section:[SMS_SITE_SYSTEM_STATUS_SUMMARIZER]
Read 29939 records.
Found section:[SITECTRLCT2SRCSITE]
Read 147 records.
Found section:[SMS_COMPONENT_STATUS_SUMMARIZER]
Read 7365 records.
Found section:[SMS_OFFER_STATUS_SUMMARIZER]
Read 3575 records.
Found section:[PKGSRVREPLDATA]
Read 13352 records.
Found section:[NONSDKSITECTRLCT2SRCSITE]
Read 127 records.

TOTAL Read 918507 records.

*** End of cleanup - 4:16:05 PM ***
Total number of lines read: 918514
Total number of deleted records: 515986

Now rewriting file...

Writing section [NONSDKSITECTRLCT2SRCSITE]
Wrote 127 records.
Writing section [SITECTRLCT2SRCSITE]
Wrote 147 records.
Writing section [PKGSRVREPLDATA]
Wrote 13352 records.
Writing section [PKGSTATUSDATA]
Wrote 388895 records.

TOTAL Write 402521 records.

5. Run the tool only on child site TRS files, not Parent site TRS files. For example if you have a Central site ABC and a child site BBB, CCC and DDD then you would run the TRSClean tool on the child sites BBB,CCC, and DDD. You would not run the TRSClean tool against the ABC because it is not a child site. Therefore you would go to the replmgr.box\history folder and run the TRSCLean against all the child sites of ABC. If you are running to the tool on the BBB primary child site then you would run the against its child sites. In this example if the child sites for BBB are CCC and DDD, then you run the TRSCLEAN against CCC and DDD.