Tuesday, August 13, 2013

401 - Authentication failure on request with anonymous access, retrying with context credentials


You will receive following error when deploying an Operating System using SCCM 2012 Task Sequence;


401 - Authentication failure on request with anonymous access, retrying with context credentials.
401 - Authentication failure on request with context credentials, retrying with supplied credentials.
Network access account credentials not supplied

 
Reason for the error is; Network access account is not specified or not configured.

Configuring Network Access Account:
Go to Administration ->Site Configuration ->Sites
Then Right click on site then go to Configure Site Components ->Software Distribution
 
On the Software Distribution Components properties go to Network Access Account and set an account.

5 comments:

  1. Thank you for the post.
    I found this post very helpful and it has fixed my problem.

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  2. If you have a network access account already configured and you're seeing these errors, check AD and ensure it isn't locked out. I've been seeing some NAC lockouts with SCCM 2012 OSD.

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  3. All the above is OK for me but I am still getting that error. The Newwork Access Account is set up and not lock in AD but I still get

    401 - Authentication failure on request with anonymous access, retrying with context credentials.

    Please what can be causing this?

    Thanks
    KKA

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  5. Do you have correct permissions assigned to the Network Access Account?
    For testing purpose give domain admin privileges to the account then test.

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