I was messing about with installing SCCM 2007 R2 on a Windows Server 2008 box. Everything went nice and smooth up to the point where my Windows PE for building and capturing an image would just Initialize and then spontaneously reboot…

So I decided to dive into the smsts.log (located in x:\SMSTSLOG or c:\smstslog, depending if your task-sequence was able to format the c:\ drive allready ;) )

In there I found some errors relating to my MP ( No MP Certificates found). From there on I decided to check out my Site and Component status in the SCCM Console and found out that my Management point was having issues with the WebDAV configuration, so I zoomed in on the MPSetup.log (located in %programfiles%\Microsoft Configuration Manager\logs) and there were the following lines:

<06-24-2009 19:53:49> checking WebDAV configurations
<06-24-2009 19:53:52>  WebDAV settings is not setup appropriately
<06-24-2009 19:53:52>  [Allow property queries with infinite depth] should be true (true)
<06-24-2009 19:53:52>  [Allow Custom Properties] should be false (true)
<06-24-2009 19:53:52>  [Allow anonymous property queries] should be true (true)
<06-24-2009 19:53:52>  Allow [All users read access to All content] authoring rule should exist (exist)

Which was really strange, because according to my IIS Manager>WebDAV Authoring Rules>WebDAV Settings, Allow Custom Properties was set to false…. eeeh what the hell?
I googled around and found out the following, the IIS console doesnt always update the webDAV configuration file correctly…. so I edited the config file manually.

C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\schema\WEBDAV_schema.xml
I found the following lines:

<element name="properties">
<attribute name="allowAnonymousPropfind" type="bool" defaultValue="true" />
<attribute name="allowInfinitePropfindDepth" type="bool" defaultValue="true" />
<attribute name="allowCustomProperties" type="bool" defaultValue="true" />

and changed them to:

<element name="properties">
<attribute name="allowAnonymousPropfind" type="bool" defaultValue="true" />
<attribute name="allowInfinitePropfindDepth" type="bool" defaultValue="true" />
<attribute name="allowCustomProperties" type="bool" defaultValue="false" />

Then I restarted the IIS service, and after that I restarted the SMS_SITE_COMPONENT_MANGER service from within the ConfigMgr Service Manager (located under the Tools node). After that my Management Point played nicely :)