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I’ve recently started to use Orchestrator in our live environment to conduct a number of actions but mainly to solve the issue of lack of email alerts within Configuration Manager. At the moment, we are not using Service Manager so finding an alternative to what that offers has become a task of mine. Using Orchestrator and a mixture of Powershell …
Orchestrator & SCCM OSD Task Sequence Failed Email Notification Read MoreMicrosoft have now released CU1 for SCCM 2012 SP1 which fixes a number of issues. It also includes an automated package creation to update your servers, clients and console installations, there is also a cab file for importing as a Windows Update. The download and further technical information is available from here: SCCM 2012 SP1 CU1 Hot Fix Download I …
SCCM 2012 SP1 CU1 Released Read MoreWe have recently had a large amount of Nokia Lumia phones appearing in the business and as you may know, they do not support mass storage, so you cannot just plug in a USB cable for them and copy videos and photos to a computer. Due to this, more and more people are asking to have Zune installed and as …
Zune Unattended Install for SCCM Software Catalog Read MoreWith System Center Endpoint Protection now having been updated to Service Pack 1 along with the rest of the System Center products, there are a few more exclusions that you should consider adding for your ConfigMgr servers. If you are using Operating System Deployment (OSD) then you should add these: This should help with offline servicing of images and the …
Endpoint Virus Exclusion Updates for Service Pack 1 (SP1) Read MoreSince I upgraded our SCCM 2012 environment to Service Pack 1 everything seemed to be working fine. But, after checking the client health monitoring, I noticed that some (a very small percentage) clients were coming back as unhealthy for various different reasons. So, I started off by looking at a few individual machines that were reporting as unhealthy and the …
SCCM 2012 SP1 Unhealthy Upgraded Clients – UAC Setting Read MoreThis query for SCCM will tell you the devices that have been discovered by Configuration Manager in the last 24 hours. This query can be amended to change the amount of days you wish to look back at for newly discovered devices by changing the last digit in the code. SQL Query More Queries Our full range of SQL and …
SCCM – SQL Query for newly discovered devices in last 24 hours Read MoreI’ve been asked a lot of questions about the various ways of using queries and there are almost no limits to what you can do with a query and of course, you can then go on and use these queries for creating collections or just to supply you with the information you require. I have created some very basic queries …
Find last logged on user by NetBIOS name – SCCM Query Read MoreIf you are looking for a query that will display all machines and their last logged on user, the below will do this for you without any prompts. This allows you to search on the data to find what you would like across the information provided by the query. The query below is the full code to bring back all …
SCCM – Last logged on user query – All Systems Read MoreWe have been asked on a number of occasions how to create Configuration Manager Collections for machines on x86 or x64 Windows Operating Systems. To do this, you should use the two collection queries as below: Instructions Query to create collection for x86 machines Query to create collection for x64 machines More Queries Our full range of SQL and WQL …
SCCM Query to create collection for x86 & x64 machines Read MoreIn previous blog posts I’ve put together a guide to automatically create the computer name in your OSD task sequences using MDT (see the link below..): Automatically generate computer name during SCCM OSD However, there is also a slightly more manual way of inputting your computer name during an OSD TS using a pop-up prompt. To do this, complete the …
Prompt for Computer Name during SCCM OSD Read MoreThis guide details how to add Products into the General Licence Statement to match up licence usages using Asset Intelligence. What this means is that you can then use Asset Intelligence reports to see what your corporate software licence usages are against what you actually have purchased. Instructions Open the Configuration Manager console. Go into the Asset and Compliance Workspace …
SCCM Asset Intelligence & Software Licensing Usage Read MoreUPDATE Although the below does help, the issue I had was actually with the WCF 3.0 Windows Update. It was this that messed up our MPs, having applied the MS “fix” (or reg hack quick fix as it really is) we have not had an issue since. I’ve had an issue for the last few days where my clients were …
SCCM Management Points not working – SMS Agent Host Service Read More
