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If you wish to play God with your Windows operating system and have the ability to change virtually every setting on your machine in one easy to access window – then this little tool is for you. Simply download the installer, install on your Windows machine and you will gain full access to all the administration tools that Windows has …
God Mode for Windows Read MoreIf you have Windows XP, or if like me, you have to rebuild many friends and family members old computers, then you will probably be aware of Microsoft Security Essentials – the free Microsoft security program. Microsoft have provided this free of charge to Windows XP and Windows 7 users for some time now but that is soon to end …
Microsoft will remove Security Essentials (MSE) for Windows XP in April 2014 – Download NOW! Read MoreIf you want to identify machines with a specific piece of software installed, you can utilise the Add/Remove Programs software inventory to do this by using this query. select distinct SMS_R_System.Name, SMS_R_System.OperatingSystemNameandVersion, SMS_R_System.ClientVersion from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS on SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.DisplayName = “Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010” order by SMS_R_System.Name In this example, we are using “Microsoft …
SCCM – WQL Query for devices with specific software installed Read MoreIf 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 …
SCCM 2012 – Newly discovered machines in the last 24 hours Read MoreDell 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 …
Report on Dell Warranty Statuses for all machines using SCCM & Dell Client Integration Pack Read MoreIf 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 …
Windows 8.1 Dot.Net 3 Feature Enable using Operating System media offline Read MoreWe 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 …
How to add a custom static page to your blog and not adding it to your menu tabs – Google Blogger Read MoreIf 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 …
SCCM 2012 – WQL Query for Machines with less that 1GB RAM Read MoreIf 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 …
SCCM – WQL Query for machines with a valid Hardware Scan in the last x days Read MoreIf 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. …
SCCM – WQL Query for MAC Address Prompt Read MoreIf 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” …
SCCM – Query for devices in a specific Active Directory Organisational Unit (OU) Read MoreThis 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 …
SCCM – SQL Query for ConfigMgr clients not upgraded to CM2012 (v5) Read More
