A.J. Armstrong

SCCM 2012 – Newly discovered machines in the last 24 hours

If you want to identify machines that have been newly discovered within the last 24 hours, then you have use the query below. select SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_R_System.CreationDate from SMS_R_System where DateDiff(dd,SMS_R_System.CreationDate, GetDate ()) <= 1 If you want to change the 24 hours value, then just amend the where value of 1 (this is a day value not hour value) to …

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Report on Dell Warranty Statuses for all machines using SCCM & Dell Client Integration Pack

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Dell have an excellent tool freely available called Dell Client Integration Pack. Included in this tool is something called Warranty Status. What this part of the tool does is looks at your SCCM SQL database for Dell machines and their asset tags, then checks against its own warranty database for the warranty information. It then inserts all the warranty information into …

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Windows 8.1 Dot.Net 3 Feature Enable using Operating System media offline

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If you are having trouble in getting the Dot.Net 3 feature to enable on your Windows 8 machine, there is a way that you can do this offline by using DISM and the original Windows 8 media. Instructions Firstly, you sure ensure that you have your original Windows 8 media in your optical drive (or on a USB stick). Then …

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How to add a custom static page to your blog and not adding it to your menu tabs – Google Blogger

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We have recently been asked about how to add a static page to Google Blogger, but not have it added to the menu tabs – whilst keeping other tabs in place. So in essence – how to create a hidden custom page. We use these to give general information on pages without them being added to our menu bar and …

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SCCM 2012 – WQL Query for Machines with less that 1GB RAM

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If you need to identify machines within your SCCM environment that have a certain amount of RAM or less, you can use the following WQL query to do this. SQL Query Code You can change the where value “1024000” to the amount of RAM that you are looking for. More Queries Our full range of SQL and WQL Collection queries …

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SCCM – WQL Query for machines with a valid Hardware Scan in the last x days

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If you would like to identify the machines that have had a valid hardware inventory scan within the last x amount of days, you can use this WQL query as per below. select SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_G_System_WORKSTATION_STATUS.LastHardwareScan from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_WORKSTATION_STATUS on SMS_G_System_WORKSTATION_STATUS.ResourceId = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where DateDiff(dd,SMS_G_System_WORKSTATION_STATUS.LastHardwareScan,GetDate() ) <= 15 This query is defaulted to 15 days, however you can just …

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SCCM – WQL Query for MAC Address Prompt

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If you would like to search for a machine based upon its MAC address, you can use a WQL query to do this. The WQL query that you should use for this is below: select distinct SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_R_System.MACAddresses from SMS_R_System where SMS_R_System.MACAddresses = ##PRM:SMS_R_System.MACAddresses## order by SMS_R_System.MACAddresses More Queries Our full range of SQL and WQL Collection queries are available here. …

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SCCM – Query for devices in a specific Active Directory Organisational Unit (OU)

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If you are looking for a SCCM query query that will return all machines that are in a specified organisational unit (OU), then you can use this one below. All you need to do is change the demo OU below to your own required OU. Organisational Unit TECHYGEEKSHOME/LAB/COMPUTERS/WINDOWS 10 Query Script SELECT distinct * FROM SMS_R_System WHERE SMS_R_System.SystemOUName = “TECHYGEEKSHOME/LAB/COMPUTERS/WINDOWS 7” …

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SCCM – SQL Query for ConfigMgr clients not upgraded to CM2012 (v5)

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This is a query for ConfigMgr 2012 and it will return the machines that do not have the 2012 client installed on them. This is useful if you have gone through an upgrade from 2007 to 2012 and need to know if or where machines have not fully upgraded themselves so that you can take remedial action on them. This …

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Remove IE MSI

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We are pleased to announce the release of our RemoveIE software in an MSI format. This will allow you to distribute the application to a large number of computers using tools such as Group Policy or SCCM. The MSI program is a free download and this does allow you to distribute the software within your own environment to as many …

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EA & Need For Speed Rivals – Nothing but problems!

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Recently, I started playing Need for Speeds Rivals on the new Xbox One console. This is a title that I’m very familiar with and have played all versions over the many years of the Need for Speed franchise. However, Rivals has been nothing but a major disappointment – don’t get me wrong, the game itself is brilliant – no complaints …

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Powershell error when running scripts – scripts disabled

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If you are trying to run a Powershell script, you may find sometimes that you get this following error message: Cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. There is a very simple fix for this, all you have to do is ensure that you run your Powershell program as administrator to give it elevated …