ERROR: Failed to verify authenticode signature - ConfigMgr (2012, 1511, 1602) Pre-requisite downloads

Hey Guys.. Hope you are all good.. This time I am bringing you all a simple fix to an annoying issue that most of us have faced while trying to upgrade / Install ConfigMgr. Yes, this is about the fix to annoying "Failed to verify authenticode signature" error while downloading setup pre-req's.  lets get into that quickly Error Description While you are downloading setup pre-requisites for ConfigMgr installation either via setup wizard or via by running setupdl.exe, the download will fail with the below error message The corresponding error message in ConfigMgrsetup.log would read like this INFO: Verifying signature for file 'C:\TEMP\Download\sqlncli.msi'    Configuration Manager Setup    06.05.2016...

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Migrating to ConfigMgr Current Branch - Moving SUP (WSUS) to server 2012 R2

Hey guys. This is the second post in the series "Migrating to ConfigMgr Current Branch". In my first post we talked about moving MP to a server 2012 R2 and in this post we will talk about moving SUP to server 2012 R2. I wanted to index all the posts in this series to make the navigation easy for you guys.. Here it is Migrating to ConfigMgr Current Branch 1.Migrating to ConfigMgr Current Branch - Migrating MP to server 2012 R2 2.Migrating to ConfigMgr Current Branch - Moving SUP (WSUS) to server 2012 R2  Lets get into this,  The ConfigMgr 2012 instance I support has 2 SUP role instance on 2 different servers. Both the WSUS instances on the SUP's shares same SQL DB which resides under ConfigMgr DB instance and WSUS shared Content...

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Migrating to ConfigMgr Current Branch - Migrating MP to server 2012 R2

Hey guys.. Glad to meet all of you with another series (Migrating to ConfigMgr CB). In my client's environment we fixed ConfigMgr 1602 as the version to be migrated to and currently we are preparing our infrastructure by replacing server 2008 R2 site systems with server 2012 R2 and performing compatibility & stability tests in ConfigMgr 1602 test environment in parallel. As explained in one of my previous posts, ConfigMgr CB will not support server 2008 R2 servers as site systems / site servers after this December. More details here Did you know that you should breakup with server 2008 R2 Meanwhile some of my friends approached me asking my suggestion on the migration to ConfigMgr CB in the infrastructure they support. So, I thought it...

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How does Client Online status in ConfigMgr 1602 work

Hey guys, you all excited to get your hands dirty with COnfigMgr 1602 ? Well, I was able to get the upgrade package by running the powershell script(EnableupdateRing Powershell Script) available here Right after running the powershell script I launched Configuration Manager Service Manager and restarted SMS_DMP_Downloader under components. Then the upgrade package was available under Administration\Overview\Cloud Services\Updates and Servicing . Right clicked on it to run the pre-requisite check and started upgrade through right click menu. I am not going to talk about the upgrade process in detail, since there are many article explaining that in detail. One cool feature that I noticed is, we could see if a computer is online or offline in...

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You cant get away! | Win7, 8.1 to go extinct | New processors will only work with Win10 - Microsoft

Yes, It is true. In 18 months Windows 10 will replace all of his sisters. Microsoft anounced that only Windows 10 will support the next generation procesors. Next generation processors, including Intel's "Kaby Lake", Qualcomm's 8996 (branded as Snapdragon 820), and AMD's "Bristol Ridge" APUs (which will use the company's Excavator architecture, not its brand new Zen arch) will only be supported on Windows 10. Also, Organization that runs Windows 7 / 8.1 on Intel 6th generation Core processor (SkyLake) are given time until17 July 2017 to upgrade to Windows 10. After July 2017, the most critical Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 security updates will be addressed for these configurations, and will be released if the update does not risk the reliability or compatibility of the Windows 7...

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Boot Image Properties are missing after R2 SP1 CU2 Upgrade

Hey guys. Happy to meet you with one of my recent experience again. I am really blessed to work for my client as I get to work on the latest version of the product. So the story goes like this, As soon as CU2 for ConfigMgr 2012 R2 SP1 is released, we started evaluating it and prepared our ConfigMgr infrastructures for the upgrade. The entire upgrade went successfully and started performing tests to ensure the functionality of ConfigMgr only to realize that the customization properties of all boot images are missing.  As this is kind of common in infrastructure upgrade where the boot images are not updated yet, we updated all our boot images. But still no tabs!!  We started looking out for other options, but none of them worked....

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Did you know that you should breakup with server 2008 R2

 Hey Guys.. I am here with yet another exciting post about ConfigMgr current branch (1511). A month before we decided to install ConfigMgr 1511 in a test environment and evaluate the product to ensure that it suits our PROD infrastructure with all the other services connecting in.  I was really stumbled when I found out about the depreciating features of ConfigMgr vNext (1511) while I was reading through the features and pre-requisites of it. Looks like we can not use Server 2008 / 2008 R2 as a site server / site system anymore. The support for these OS versions will be removed right after year from the release date of ConfigMgr 1511. This is the same for SQL 2008 R2 as DB as well. Read more here https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt210917.aspx  But...

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