Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007, Secondary site Pending
by Mats Hellman on 13.Apr, 2010 under Windows
I’ve been setting up SCCM 2007 at work and the Primary site is working fine so I decided to deploy the first of many secondary sites. I pushed the install from our Primary Site server and added it to the Local Administrators group on the secondary site server to be. The installation went fine, or at least it looked like it did. I noticed I had forgot to set the Secondary Site server in the SMS_SiteSystemToSiteServerConnection_XXX group on the primary site server so the Secondary site wasn’t able to write to the inbox of the Primary site server. This resulted in the secondary site hanging at PENDING. And fixing it took some searching, after about 4 hours of searching I decided that when I find a solution I’m going to post it so no one else has to go trough the same trouble.
Fixing the Pending issue
The solution is really simple. Since the secondary site wasn’t able to report it was done and the settings applied I had to find a way to get them to the primary site server. Apparently this is done at install and it won’t try it again. So just log in on your Secondary Site server, copy the file <ConfigMgrInstallPath>\inboxes\sitectrl.box\SiteCtrl.ct0 file to a temporary location (C:\Temp!?) and rename it to 00000000.ct2. When that’s done copy the renamed file to your Primary Site Server <ConfigMgrInstallPath>\inboxes\hman.box\ wait a second and your secondary site will be online. The solution was really easy but it was really hard to find so I’m hoping this will make someone’s day a little better.
