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If you are using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) then you will probably be making use of the Application Catalog feature. This allows IT departments to give a software shop front to its end users freeing up IT staff from the tedious installations of 7-Zip and Adobe Reader. But, the standard URL for the Application…
If you are using System Center Operations Manager and you want to bulk remove multiple Management Packs, then you can use the power of the Operations Manager Shell to carry it out. First of all, you need to open up the Operations Manager Shell. Then you should run the following command: where: “*Microsoft.SQLServer*” = the…
If you are using System Center Orchestrator (SCORCH) Runbooks then you may have run into issues where the database is increasing in size due to the large amount of log files being created. This typically occurs when monitoring event logs on servers amongst some other runbook options in SCORCH. If you want to check how…
If you are using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) then you will find that you will need to apply your correct licence key to take it from an evaluation version up to a full version. To make this a simple process, you can run the following PowerShell command on your Operations Manager server: #Import Module import-module…
If you are installing System Center Operations Manager, there are a number of pre-requisites that you need to install before running the installer. To make the pre-requisites installation easier, you can run the below Powershell command which will download and install all of the pre-reqs for you. Import-Module ServerManager Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework-Core,AS-HTTP-Activation,Web-Static-Content,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Dir-Browsing,Web-Http-Errors,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Request-Monitor,Web-Filtering,Web-Stat-Compression,AS-Web-Support,Web-Metabase,Web-Asp-Net,Web-Windows-Auth –restart ##This section will…
If you are using System Center Service Manager and creating custom management packs then you will want to seal them with a strong name signature. To do this, you will need to first of all generate the key file to allow you to use it when sealing your management pack. You need to use the…
We have recently been asked to report on Google Earth installations within our SCCM environment. So, as we were already collecting the EXE file information within our hardware inventory, we could make use of the SoftwareFile data in the SCCM SQL database. Also, having spent some time Googling a query for Google Earth, we found that…
If you are looking for HP driver packs then you can use the HP Driver Pack Matrix below: Notebooks & Tablets Windows 10 64-bit Windows 8.1 64-bit HP Elite x2 1012 G1 Tablet HP Elite x2 1012 G1 Tablet with Travel Keyboard sp77863.exe (Updated: 2016-10-07) – HP EliteBook 1030 G1 Notebook PC sp77666.exe (Updated: 2016-10-07) –…
If you are using SCCM and you want to delete a device from your database (for example if you are using OSD and only deploying to Unknown Devices) then you would normally have to go into the SCCM Console, Devices, search for the device and then right click and delete the device which would remove…
We have recently been using a new script that we came across which allows you to run a PowerShell script on your SCCM environment and it looks for all the Dell hardware models that you have and then automatically downloads all the latest drivers and BIOS’s for each machine found. This is an excellent way…
If you are using SCCM for the deployment of software then you may find that with the smaller SSD’s that you may be using that free space is becoming an issue. This can be because the more an end user installs to their machine from your Software Catalog, the more data that is being downloaded…
Microsoft have now released SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2016 and is ready to download and use. You can get the download by clicking the button below: Download SSMS 2016 SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is an integrated environment for accessing, configuring, managing, administering, and developing all components of SQL Server. SSMS combines a broad group…
If you want to deploy the new OneDrive Next Generation Sync Client using SCCM, then there is a excellent guide available detailing how to do this over at scconfigmgr.com You can see the guide by clicking the link below: https://www.scconfigmgr.com/2016/05/24/deploy-onedrive-next-generation-sync-client-with-configmgr/
If you are using our Autodesk 2017 serial number collection guide, you may notice that some of your machines are not correctly reporting the serial numbers that are on your client machines. This can be because the hardware delta has found a mismatch in the information and gets itself into a bit of a mess….
Microsoft have now released an update for Configuration Manager version 1606 to add Apple iOS 10 to the supported platforms list. This update adds the following platforms to the supported platforms list for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager current branch, version 1606: All iOS 10 iPhone or iPod Touch devices All iOS 10 iPad devices…
If you are using Configuration Manager and you want to create a collection based on all Windows 10 installations, you can use this WQL query below: select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID, SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType, SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name, SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier, SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup, SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System where SMS_R_System.OperatingSystemNameandVersion like “%Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 10%” You can change the “%Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 10%” to create collections…
If you are using Configuration Manager and want to run an SQL query on your database to count the number of different models you have in your organisation, you can use this SQL query below using SSRS to create a custom report: More Queries Our full range of SQL and WQL Collection queries are available here….
If you are using Configuration Manager and you want to create a collection of all devices that do not have the Configuration Manager Client installed, then you can use this WQL query: More Queries Our full range of SQL and WQL Collection queries are available here. Feedback If you have any questions or feedback about this post, or…
Below is a full list of SQL Server version numbers dating from version 7.0 through to the current 2016 RTM release. Codename RTM Service Pack 1 Service Pack 2 Service Pack 3 Service Pack 4 SQL Server 2016 NA 13.0.1601.5 SQL Server 2014 SQL14 12.0.2000.8 12.0.4100.1 12.0.5000.0 SQL Server 2012 Denali 11.0.2100.60 11.0.3000.0 11.0.5058.0 11.0.6020.0…
If you want to create a collection in Configuration Manager to show you all the devices that are not up to a specified version, then you can use the WQL query below: select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID, SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType, SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name, SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier, SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup, SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System where SMS_R_System.ClientVersion != “5.00.8412.1007” Where “5.00.8412.1007” is the latest version number that you are…
If you want to create a Configuration Manager Collection with all inactive devices in it, you can use the following WQL query. You can also change the last “0” to “1” to create a collection of active devices.
If you are using System Center Service Manager (SCSM) you may want to delete all your incidents. This may sound strange but if you are setting up and testing and then want to remove all those test incidents – this can sometimes be the case. So, all you need to do is to start up…
We recently came across a great guide on how to setup a DCM item to detect if any users machines had the Windows Firewall turned off and how to report on it. So, we thought we would share this guide with our visitors, so head on over to MyITForum to check out how to carry…
We have recently started to have problems with running a CScript command in one of our SCCM task sequences where we send the local computer description to Active Directory to automatically set the Active Directory computer name description. It has always worked fine but seemed to have stopped working after the latest hotfix. So, after…
