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.NET 3.5 (NetFx3) Installation Fails With Error 3017 And HRESULT 80070BC9 on Server 2012 R2

March 18, 2014 Leave a comment

Recently, when rebuilding my System Center Configuration Manager 2012 lab, I ran into an issue. I was preinstalling SQL Server 2012 and hit a snag.

It seems that for whatever reason the SQL installer could not install the .NET 3.5 framework. Thinking this would be a simple fix I opened up PowerShell, fired off a quick Install-WindowsFeature and… it also failed. Puzzled I headed to the Internet. As it turns out this was a common problem and quite a few others suggested using DISM in online mode to install the feature either by pointing direct to the source media

Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /All /Source:D:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess

or by obtaining the feature from windows update

Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /All

Neither worked. Both returned the error 3017, which basically means “something broke, you need to restart to roll back the installation”. Examining C:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log revealed the following:

DISM Package Manager: PID=2536 TID=352 Error in operation: (null) (CBS HRESULT=0x80070bc9) - CCbsConUIHandler::Error
DISM Package Manager: PID=2536 TID=2292 Failed finalizing changes. - CDISMPackageManager::Internal_Finalize(hr:0x80070bc9)
DISM Package Manager: PID=2536 TID=2292 Failed processing package changes with session options - CDISMPackageManager::ProcessChangesWithOptions(hr:0x80070bc9)
DISM Package Manager: PID=2536 TID=2292 Failed ProcessChanges. - CPackageManagerCLIHandler::Private_ProcessFeatureChange(hr:0x80070bc9)
DISM Package Manager: PID=2536 TID=2292 Failed while processing command enable-feature. - CPackageManagerCLIHandler::ExecuteCmdLine(hr:0x80070bc9)
DISM Package Manager: PID=2536 TID=2292 Further logs for online package and feature related operations can be found at %WINDIR%\logs\CBS\cbs.log - CPackageManagerCLIHandler::ExecuteCmdLine
DISM.EXE: DISM Package Manager processed the command line but failed. HRESULT=80070BC9

While not terribly helpful the DISM log tells us where we can get more information. The cbs.log showed:

Info CSI 000000a7 Begin executing advanced installer phase 34 (0x00000022) index 246 (0x00000000000000f6) (sequence 278)
     Old component: [l:0]""
     New component: [ml:276{138},l:274{137}]"WWF-PerfCnt_ini, Culture=neutral, Version=6.3.9600.16384, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, ProcessorArchitecture=x86, versionScope=NonSxS"
     Install mode: install
     Installer ID: {d82eedee-854e-4f9a-b458-ae1bc62a0e6b}
     Installer name: [16]"LodCtr Installer"
Info CSI 000000a8 Performing 1 operations; 1 are not lock/unlock and follow:
     (0) LockComponentPath (10): flags: 0 comp: {l:16 b:547843cbc942cf0124030000e4088408} pathid: {l:16 b:547843cbc942cf0125030000e4088408} path: [l:184{92}]"\SystemRoot\WinSxS\x86_wwf-perfcnt_ini_31bf3856ad364e35_6.3.9600.16384_none_086429b116eaedfd" pid: 8e4 starttime: 130396348381515426 (0x01cf42c9b949cea2)
Error CSI 00000002@2014/3/18:16:47:48.324 (F) Logged @2014/3/18:16:47:48.324 : [ml:242{121},l:240{120}]"RegQueryValue_ServiceFirstCounter("SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services","Windows Workflow Foundation 3.0.0.0") fails (2,0)"
[gle=0x80004005]
Error CSI 00000003@2014/3/18:16:47:48.324 (F) Logged @2014/3/18:16:47:48.324 : [ml:354{177},l:352{176}]"Extract actual INI path "C:\Windows\inf\Windows Workflow Foundation 3.0.0.0\PerfCounters.ini" from "C:\Windows\inf\Windows Workflow Foundation 3.0.0.0000\PerfCounters_D.ini"."
[gle=0x80004005]
Error CSI 00000004@2014/3/18:16:47:48.324 (F) Logged @2014/3/18:16:47:48.324 : [ml:354{177},l:352{176}]"Extract actual INI path "C:\Windows\inf\Windows Workflow Foundation 3.0.0.0\PerfCounters.ini" from "C:\Windows\inf\Windows Workflow Foundation 3.0.0.0409\PerfCounters_D.ini"."
[gle=0x80004005]
Error CSI 00000005@2014/3/18:16:47:48.340 (F) CMIADAPTER: Inner Error Message from AI HRESULT = HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(1010)
[
[44]"The configuration registry key is invalid.
"
]
[gle=0x80004005]
Error CSI 00000006@2014/3/18:16:47:48.340 (F) CMIADAPTER: AI failed. HRESULT = HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(1010)
...

Checking the registry key mentioned in the error revealed that the key was related to performance counters. A little more research led me to the lodctr.exe tool, and running

lodctr.exe /R

performed a rebuild of the performance counters. After rebuilding the performance counters installing the .Net 3.5 framework feature with DISM succeeded.

Filed under General Tagged with DISM, SCCM, SQL Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

Setting the color and properties for all CMD and PowerShell windows based on admin / elevation status.

March 11, 2012 2 Comments

To quote Mark Twain, “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated”.

This blog is not dead. I realize it’s been quite some time since my last post. Two factors have contributed to the lengthy hiatus. First, I’m busy. Not just “I wish I had some time to catch up on some television, movies, and books.” busy, but “I wonder just how few hours of sleep the human body actually needs to survive.” busy. Second, my goal with this blog is not just to aggregate what’s already out there, but to add unique value to this little corner of the internet. If I don’t have something useful to say that hasn’t been covered elsewhere I see no need to add to the din.

Now, on to the “value”!

Several years ago Aaron Margosis posted a way to make all your CMD windows running as admin “visually different” than your non-admin windows. You can (and should) read that blog here. Fast forward a few years and I find myself using PowerShell more and more. Furthermore, UAC makes it even more valuable to know which CMD and PowerShell windows are running with administrative credentials and which are not. Needless to say, as someone who has become accustomed to the functionality Aaron provided for CMD windows I wanted to port this same behavior to my PowerShell windows. Here is how I did it…

Unable to Pin an Item to the Start Menu

September 9, 2011 Leave a comment

Admittedly this is not specifically SCCM or managed desktop related but I thought I’d share anyway.

As part of an OSD build I was trying to automate pinning a company-wide in-house application to the start menu, but my pinning script* wasn’t working. Right clicking on the EXE for the item revealed why. There was no option for “Pin to Start Menu” or “Pin to Taskbar” available on the item’s context menu. A little digging on the internet lead me to the following MSDN page: How to Exclude Items from Taskbar Pinning and Recent/Frequent Lists

The Remarks section at the end of that page revealed the answer to my problem. The application I was trying to Pin contained the word “help” in the filename, which is on a list of “restricted” items. The documentation states “This automatic exclusion can be overridden by applying an explicit AppUserModelID.”, and if you’d like more information on applying an explicit AppUserModelID feel free to read this page. Now, setting up this AppUserModelID would have probably been the right way to solve my problem, but I didn’t have that kind of time to investigate what that entailed and work out this little issue. All I wanted was to not have to worry about if the program I wanted to pin had the word “help” in the file name so I took the easy way out and just removed the “help” entry from the AddRemoveNames value under the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileAssociation key and viola I was able to pin the program.

$Images showing the AddRemoveNames value in the Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileAssociation key that prevents an item from being pinned to the start menu$

This certainly isn’t the recommended solution for a program you’re going to distribute to third parties since it would be considered bad form to go changing system wide settings on someone else’s computer without asking, but in this case it’s all in-house and the powers that be seem fine with my “quick fix” solution. If you’re going to do this “in the real world” you should investigate the AppUserModelID route.

On a side note, sure I could have re-named the EXE to something that didn’t contain the restricted word, but since the EXE or Shortcut, (ahem “Shell Link”) name gets used for the pinned item’s start menu text that would have meant coming up with some new creative name not using the word “help”. Further, the new name would be different from what the users currently see on their XP start menu and we all know that means more support requests for the help desk which tends to make them grumpy.

*Technically not my pinning script, but rather the pinning script I use compliments of the fabulous Hey Scripting Guy! blog. Check it out at: “Can I Pin a File to the Start Menu by Using a Script?“

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Secondary Site stuck in a pending state with the error “Cannot find a public key for instruction \inboxes\despoolr.box\receive\somefile.ist coming from site XYZ, retry it later” in the despool.log

August 25, 2011 Leave a comment

I certainly like the fact that I can setup a new secondary site right from the Configuration Manager console and that additionally I can choose to push the installation files to the new secondary site as part of that setup process. Sometimes it even works. However, more often than not I end up with a site stuck in a pending state. Usually checking the despool.log on the primary site I see something similar to:

CPublicKeyLookup::CPublicKeyLookup("XYZ")
Cannot find a public key for instruction \inboxes\despoolr.box\receive\somefile.ist coming from site XYZ, retry it later

To correct this problem log on to the secondary site server, open a command prompt, and from the \Bin\i386\00000409\ folder run

preinst /keyforparent

This command will create a <XYZ>.CT4 file in the root of the drive. Copy the <XYZ>.CT4 file into the \inboxes\hman.box\ folder on the primary site. Wait a few minutes for the hierarchy manager to import the file (it will disappear from the folder) and the despooler to finish processing its backlog and everything should be back on track.

Likewise, you may also subsequently encounter a similar issue where the new secondary site doesn’t have a key for the primary site. In that case the despool.log on the secondary site server should show similar errors to what we saw in the primary site’s despool.log. In this case log on to the primary site server and run

preinst /keyforchild

Copy the resulting CT5 file to \inboxes\hman.box\ on the child site and wait for the child site to import the CT5 file and complete processing just like you did for the primary site.

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Welcome

April 5, 2011 Leave a comment

My family got their first computer when I was 4 years old (a Commodore VIC-20 for those who want to get nostalgic). Since then my interest in electronics and computers has grown into a full-time career spanning the past 15+ years. I landed in the SMS, SCCM and Managed Desktop world about 6 or so years ago and havn’t looked back since.

While there isn’t much here yet, look for tips, tricks, and tools relating to using SCCM to provide a seamless managed desktop user experience to land here in the near future. For those coders and scripters among you my primary weapons of choice are C# and VB Script with a little PowerShell and C++ thrown in for good measure. Hopefully you’ll find it useful.

-J

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