Tuesday, February 14, 2012

BranchCache and Config Manager

BranchCache and Config Manager:
Available only in Windows 7 & 2008
Two Modes: Hosted and Distributed – can be set through group policy -enablement, cache size, bandwidth size
Distribution for Config Manager peer-to-peer download- Requires additional space in clients (Cache Content)- Only within subnet (so each subnet should download once) – clients should be ON for download – content cache security through NTFS ACL.
BranchCache is compatible with VPN software that supports split tunneling
Ports: 80 and 3702.
Firewall: Requires program exception

Monday, February 6, 2012

Message ID: 8000 -portal Web Site Control Manager detected PORTALWEB is not responding to HTTP requests. Config Manager 2012

If you get this error after SC2012 Config manager application catalog installation, this is due to .NET 4.0.
resolution:
This issue occurs because the Applicationhost.configion catalog file for Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) has the following section defined, and this section is incompatible with the .NET Framework 4.0:

This section should be defined as follows:

Note You can find the Applicationhost.config file in the following location:
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\காண்பிக்

more here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2015129