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Microsoft have released a number of documents to make up a best practice guide for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2. The documents are free to download and although we have not read through them ourselves yet, we are told that they are very good so worth a read. You can download the documents individually from the link below: Download …

Guide / System Center

Configuration Manager Report Query for Servers not rebooted in the last week

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If you want to report on the servers that have not had a reboot in the last week within your Configuration Manager environment then you can run this query directly on your SQL database or you can use it to create a report within SSRS. How to create a Configuration Manager Report using SSRS SQL Query The query is below …

System Center / Guide

SCCM Report Query for Machines without Client Installed

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If you want to report on the machines that do not have the ConfigMgr client installed within your Configuration Manager environment then you can run this query directly on your SQL database or you can use it to create a report within SSRS. The query is below and can be altered to fit your own needs by adding columns and …

Guide / System Center

Configuration Manager Report Query for Client Version

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If you want to report on the versions of your ConfigMgr clients that you have within your Configuration Manager environment then you can run this query directly on your SQL database or you can use it to create a report within SSRS. How to create a Configuration Manager Report using SSRS The query is below and can be altered to …

System Center Configuration Manager SCCM

Guide / System Center

Task Sequences types in Software Center – OSD or Application?

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Sorry about the recent lack of updates on our site but we have been incredibly busy fixing “real world” IT issues! Its also the silly season for holidays so over the next month updates may be a little sparse but we will try our best! We recently came across a really good blog post by Daniel Ratliff over at PotentEngineer.com about ConfigMgr …

Screenshot of the "WillyTheWorm" game over screen displaying the message "game over! your final score is: 0" with an option to press enter to retry. The game speed

News / Program

WillyTheWorm v1.1 Released – Retro Snake Game

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We are pleased to announce the release of WillyTheWorm version 1.1. We have been playing with creating a few very basic retro games for a while now and although these are really only more than testers and nothing to get too excited about, we thought we would release them for you to play with anyway and you can feel free …

Guide / News

DustyRacer Retro Racing Game v1.0 Released

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We are pleased to announce the release of DustyRacer v1.0. This is very much a test release and more of a practice in coding so please treat it as such! Your feedback and ideas are welcome but we are looking into building this up with lots of new features, like levels that speed up as you get to higher levels, …

News / Program

DustyNet Web Browser v2.1 Released

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We are pleased to announce the release of our first web browser codenamed DustyNet. DustyNet is a simple and easy-to-use web browser. It is lightweight and standalone so can you run direct from a single executable file and even from a USB stick. This is a second release so if you find any bugs or if you want to suggest …

System Center

Controlling Concurrent Package Distribution

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We recently came across this excellent blog post about the configuration of distribution settings for Configuration Manager. We highly recommend that you read it if you have multiple remote distribution points as this may help to speed up the process of pushing out the packages. Controlling Concurrent Package Distribution

Guide / System Center

ConfigMgr 2012 – Log file to check package deletion progress

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When you delete packages, applications or images using your Configuration Manager Console, it will then start to process the removal of the files from your distribution points. Depending on how many distribution points you have, this can take some time to complete. We recently had a scenario where we had to remove nearly 100GB of old driver packages, the removal …

System Center / Guide

ConfigMgr OSD – Strange Task Sequence Failures Solved

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We had reports from a customer this week about strange issues with their Configuration Manager OSD Task Sequences failing. The OSD seemed to work on most machines but a new batch of refurbished laptops would PXE boot but then would fail after the task sequence had been selected with a generic Microsoft error (you know the type!). We had been …

System Center / Guide

Deploying Dell BIOS Updates using the Application Model

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We have just started to update our hardware BIOS’s during the Configuration Manager OSD process taking advantage of the Application model. It works extremely well and is very easy to setup. We used this excellent guide to help us so we thought that we would share this with our visitors for it to help you too. Deploying Dell BIOS Updates …