Today I was looking at Packages to see how many packages are created without any distribution Points added. This might help you in identifying whether these packages are really needed to be in SCCM or archive them. This below report will help you in achieving this. select PackageID,Name,Version,SourceDate from v_Package where PackageID not in (select…

Neil Peterson blogged about Cross Forest Support in #SCCM / #Configmgr 2012 into 4 series of guides and they are listed below. Introduction - Welcome to the last in this series of four articles examining cross forest support in 2012 Configuration Manager.  In the previous three postings I have examined configuration options for client management…

Our engineering team has had an amazing journey this past year with two key releases to help our customers improve their capabilities for deploying Windows in their enterprises.   As you know, we released Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 in April of this year to coincide with the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) and this enabled a lot…

In a Big environment to know/work based on regional wide kind of doing some maintenance tasks in SCCM ,this would would help you to get you the count of Child sites reporting to primary. select ReportingSiteCode ,COUNT(*) as [Child sites] from v_Site group by ReportingSiteCode order by ReportingSiteCode

time to time while working with SCCM application virtualization, i come across several issues in troubleshooting why the virtual apps doesn't load correctly /why they don't go way when you say not applicable/not needed for someone using very powerful command WMIC. Here are some of the WMIC commands : What is WMIC : WMIC is…

was looking at machine to see what advertisements /packages are targeted to sccm client though you can get this information directly from SCCM reports if you have access else wrote a simple script which gives you what packages with program name,Command line used ,ADV ID,Package ID information. ON ERROR RESUME NEXT Set fso=CreateObject("scripting.filesystemobject") 'create text…
#SCCM / #Configmgr 2012 SP1 Upcoming Enhancements

The Product Group have recently announced the Beta of ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 at TechNet 2012 North America. You can view the announcement at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/MGT309 Kent blogged about new enhancements over http://blog.coretech.dk/kea/configmgr-2012-sp1-announced-teched-2012/ Enhancements include: Platform Support: Windows 8 Windows 8 tablet (Intel SoC) support Mac OS X Linux and Unix Operating System Deployment: Windows To Go…
Publish Custom Office Templates End users

This post is going to be a something new today to publish Custom Office templates made available to all users when they open PowerPoint or Word or Excel Office applications. This can be done several ways like AD group policy management or Scripting or other ways But I would prefer to do it using Configuration…