SCCM – Inventory Data Load Failed to Process the delta MIF file

Background:

Installed a new SCCM Primary Site in a new environment. Used SCCM 1702 media. WSUS, SCCM and SQL Server all sitting on the same server.

Got the client installed successfully on all the new devices and left SCCM to do its thing overnight.

Noticed that the devices were not being added to the new Device Collections i created. Double checked that the filters were correct and proceeded to do a Healthcheck of SCCM.

While looking at the SCCM Console and check out the Component Status page, noticed the following errors:

Error:

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Inventory Data Loader failed to process the delta MIF file……

Solution:

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The issue as it turns out was a permission issue.

Running ProcMon (SysInternals Tool) and filtering by Access Denied I was able to see Access Denied errors on the D:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\CCM…..

Click Share on the folder (right click > Properties > Sharing tab) and add the relevant service account that is captured in ProcMon.

 

Service Connection Tool – Access is Denied

I need to get the SCCM updates as described in this post.

But when running the Service Connection Tool in an Offline environment I got the following:

ERROR: Access is denied. Please run the tool locally as local administrator.

I tripled checked that I had access to the database and local administrator on the server. Until it dawned on me the next day.
You run the Service Connection Tool executable from the SCCM 1702 install media. My media happened to be an ISO which I mounted on the server (G:\).
I unzipped the ISO, and ran the command in the unzipped location. And it produced me the CAB file that I was after so I can get the SCCM updates from Microsoft.