SCCM 2007 management point fails to install

First time I ran in to this problem was in my new virtual test environment. The management point failed to install and MPSetup.log was reporting the WebDav settings were not correct. Looking at them in IIS Manager everything looked just like it should, everything was setup according to the prerequisite document on Technet.

I had to find the problem somewhere else, and I did. Apparently the settings in the GUI didn’t get written to Webdav_schema.xml, and someone was kind enough to document how to change them, so here is the link for future reference.

http://scug.dk/blogs/configurationmanager/archive/2009/12/30/webdav-fails-on-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx

Setting up Windows Server DHCP for SCCM2007

Every now and then I get the question about setting up your DHCP server for SCCM when the DHCP server doesn’t reside on the same host as the SCCM/WDS server.

So to get this working you need to set option 66 and option 67 in your DHCP server.

The options should be set to as following:

Option 66 (boot server host name): IP of your server, ex 10.0.0.1

Option 67 (bootfile name): SMSBoot\boot.sdi

There are many guides out there on this topic, but most don’t need or want to understand the inner workings of DHCP, they just want the filenames. So there you go.