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Error “The specified server cannot perform the requested operation” when using Export-CMApplication

Published by Chris Kibble on September 8, 2020

Quick post today because I couldn’t find this error anywhere online. I’m running Configuration Manager 2002 and was exporting an application and was getting this error thrown in Powershell:

Export-CMApplication : The specified server cannot perform the requested operation.

1	Export-CMApplication : The specified server cannot perform the requested operation.

After some digging around, I realized it was an older application with a source path that was moved on the SAN, but not ever updated …

Inventory Java with Configuration Manager

Published by Chris Kibble on May 8, 2019

Short and sweet for those at MMS 2019 who were looking to inventory java usage with Configuration Manager. There is a 2018 System Center Dudes post on metering java. The post was based on a CI created by Steve Jesok of TCSMUG back in 2015. The original script doesn’t account for problems with newer versions …

Migrating Away from an SCCM CAS (Part 1)

Published by Chris Kibble on March 25, 2019

Hi, my name is Chris, and my ConfigMgr environment has a CAS. This will be one of my few multi-part blog posts, mostly because it’s going to take a me a lot of time and a lot of testing to do things right. Once the series is complete, hopefully you’ll have an understanding on how …

Getting the Email Address of all Configuration Manager Users

Published by Chris Kibble on February 20, 2019

The following short and sweet snippet of PowerShell will extract the list of admins from your SCCM environment and then get their email addresses. At the end, you can dump $email into a text file, or perhaps set it to your clipboard to paste into Outlook.

Inventory of Missing and Disabled Configuration Manager Users

Published by Chris Kibble on February 18, 2019

I wrote the following script to inventory the administrative users of my Configuration Manager (SCCM) environment as they relate to Active Directory. The end result is a list of users who no longer exist in Active Directory, users who are in Active Directory but disabled, and users who are granted rights in multiple ways (e.g. …