In-depth guides for Microsoft System Center products including SCCM/ConfigMgr, SCOM, SCVMM, and Orchestrator. Written for IT professionals.
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
We have been carrying out some work on various HTA’s for SCCM OSD processes lately and that has included automatically setting time zones. We struggled to find a comprehensive list of the time zone settings so thought that we would share that information here. If you find anything that we may have missed, please let … Read more
If you are trying to deploy an operating system using SCCM and you are getting an error 80220005 at the “Apply Windows Settings” step, then there can be two reasons for this. One is that the computer name that you are trying to give to the machine is over 16 characters long and will cause … Read more