Hi and Welcome to my blog eskonr.com
My self Eswar Koneti ,completed Bachelor of Technology from JNTU University, India.
I started my career as Infrastructure Engineer with Global Company. while i was with my first company ,got a chance to explore different Microsoft Technologies like Active Directory, SMS 2003 ,MOM 2005 and Symantec Antivirus (Non-Microsoft). After working for year+ on these technologies ,I was more interested in SMS 2003 (on the deployment,patching ,OSD and lot more on troubleshooting clients) than other technologies that drive me to choose opportunities in SMS 2003 /SCCM and glad that i am still working SCCM/intune product and i love it.
I have started blogging in year 2009 at www.eskonr.com to share Technical stuff on SCCM/Configmgr and its connected objects like Active Directory ,MBAM etc and to keep this blog as Library for my own reference for future needs.
I spend my free time working with SCCM/Configmgr/office365/Intune to explore different things and share my experience on my blog.
In addition to blogging, I like to spend time on Technical forums like TechNet, Myitforum,windows-noob and other SCCM/Configmgr/Intune forums responding to queries and gather information on different arenas of deployment technologies.
I was awarded by Microsoft with Title ‘Microsoft Most Valuable Professional’ for my technical contributions towards Microsoft technical Forums ,blogging and other forums in year 2017.
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Community Activities:
I will try (never ending process) to share/absorb as much IT knowledge within my spare time.
Forums, pages and communities where I am active at:
- Windows-Noob.com (Eswar koneti ) – Moderator and Contributor
- TechNet (Eswar Koneti ) – contributor
- WMUG.CO.UK(Eswar Koneti ) – Blog & Member
- Myitforum (Eswar Koneti)—Contributor
Certificates and Awards:
Microsoft Certifications:
| Credential | Certification Name /Version |
| MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist ) | Microsoft® System center Configuration manager 2007 (70-401)
Microsoft® System Center 2012 Configuration manager (70-243) Microsoft® System center Operations Manager 2007 (70-400) |
| MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) | Microsoft® Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center (70-409) |
To view my full certification transcript, please go to http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/transcripts
Transcript ID: 886095 and Access Code: transcript
Disclaimer :The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of my employer and are provided "AS IS" with no warranties.The Scripts that are posted here in this Blog are worked in my environment .Please test in Non-Production system before you execute it on any.
Hi Mr Eswar
How i can contacting you?
Hi,
you can reach me eswar@eskonr.com
Thanks,
Eswar
Very nice SQL entries. Can you please upload the View Documentation for MEMCM 2107? THanks
Hi,
sure. i will do it this week.
Thanks,
Eswar
Hi,
I have published the SQL views for current branch 2107. Please refer this https://github.com/eskonr/MEMPowered/tree/master/Reports/SQ%20Views
Thanks,
Eswar
Hi Eswar,
unfortunately I cannot find the new file under the link you have provided.
(Last Updated Apr 08)
Hi,
you can download it from here https://github.com/eskonr/MEMPowered/blob/master/Technet%20Gallery/Powershell%20Delete%20computer%20records%20from%20SCCM.zip
Well, this is not the 2107 view documentation but some SCCM script 😀
if you are looking for SQL views documentation for 2107, you can refer it here https://github.com/eskonr/MEMPowered/tree/master/Reports/SQ%20Views
Thanks,
Eswar
Hi Eswar,
You have great content. Thank you for your blogs.
I was reading one of your blogs Powershell script to delete computer records from SCCM. I know it won't be the same version as to the one we have now, but I am trying to find a script to delete multiple devices from sccm. I ran into your blog and when I clicked the link to get the script, it doesn't show up anymore. Is there a way to get a copy of that script?
Thanks,
Dee
Hi Dee,
Thanks for your kind words.
can you send me the link that you are using to download the script, i will check and upload the script?
Thanks,
Eswar
http://eskonr.com/2016/11/powershell-script-to-delete-computer-records-from-sccm/
That's the blog that you did and the script is from here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/browse/?redirectedfrom=TechNet-Gallery
It's not on technet anymore and it only shows a snipper of the script.
Thanks.
Hi. I'm not sure if my previous response posted but this is the blog entry that I was reading:
http://eskonr.com/2016/11/powershell-script-to-delete-computer-records-from-sccm/
This is the link that the script is sent to:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/browse/?redirectedfrom=TechNet-Gallery
Hi Dee,
You can go through this link for the download of technet gallery scripts http://eskonr.com/2021/02/did-you-miss-to-download-your-samples-from-technet-gallery-here-is-how-you-can-do-it/
Thanks,
Eswar
Hello, I have an issue with some of the servers where the packages can't get installed with the "SCCM Configmgr Powershell script to install software updates on remote clients". I get the "pending patches - nn but unable to install them, check the Server" and on the server from where the script is ran I get the Event Error 10028 "DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer x using any of the configured protocols; requested by PID (C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe)." All the servers have the same configuration (firewall/rights/domain) but somehow only a few are affected. Do you have any tip what else could be checked? Thanks!
Hi,
It seems to be like firewall or dcom issue. you can check wbemtest from run command try to connect to remote server wmi (\\servername\root\CCM\ClientSDK) if it works or not.
Thanks,
Eswar
Hi Easwar
Hope you are doing well and recognize me.
I’m looking for some SCCM reporting on patch complaince , can you please help.
regards,
JK
Hi JK,
What kind of patch complaince are you looking for? Have you looked at default sccm reports and also custom reports in my blog? There are plenty of reports exist. Am sure they will help you. If you looking for some customization, I can work with you offline for consulting and deliver the needed reports.
Thanks,
Eswar
Hi Eswar
I am intrusted in perusing exam 70-703 - Administering Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and Cloud Services Integration.
Can you please advise good institute in India those conduct this for this, I am more interested in face to face rather than online training.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Hi,
some of the concepts in 70-703 are being retired or no support such as MDM by SCCM & Intune (there is no hybrid management) and must use standalone intune .also 70-703 exam still in beta hence it may change any point of time.
for the classes, i do not have any training centers who can give class on this but i would recommend to start reading technet documentation ,being active in technet forums ,social networking site to seek information and finally LAB . LAB is must and you have lot of step by step guides available which is far better to learn than attending training's in my way.
Thanks,
Eswar
Eswar,
WSUS allows you to get a Tabular Status report detailing device name patches needed/ installed/ failed. Similar to this:
Computer Name Needed Installed Failed N/A
odsjsrv122 2 234 1 23
odsjsrv123 2 222 1 23
odsjsrv124 2 237 1 23
odsjsrv125 2 245 1 23
odsjsrv126 2 267 1 23
Can we pull a report like this in SCCM?
Hi Eswar,
I have left a message on the below post but you never replied.
http://eskonr.com/2018/02/powershell-script-to-run-automated-tasks-for-o365-using-stored-credentials/
Can I expect a reply from you/
Thanks,
Replied.
Hi Eswar
We have deployed a new task sequences and my manager asked me to pull out a report of the task sequence on a particular collection.
Report which we created is giving the output as below.
Execution State Number of Computers Percent of Total Deployment ID
Accepted 54 76.10% GSXXXXX
Failed 1 1.40% GSXXXXX
No Status 4 5.60% GSXXXXX
Running 2 2.80% GSXXXXX
Succeeded 10 14.10% GSXXXXX
But the requirement is to get a report as below.
Computer Name Execution-state Deployment_ID Last_Acceptence_Time LastStatustime
Client1 Success GS2XXXXXX DD/MM/YYYY HH:MIN:SEC DD/MM/YYYY HH:MIN:SEC
Client2 Failure GS2XXXXXX DD/MM/YYYY HH:MIN:SEC DD/MM/YYYY HH:MIN:SEC
This is more of customized report .need to review the information that is stored in what SQL views/tables and build it.
I dont have any custom report for it and due to time limitation ,i can add to to-do list which takes time.
Regards,
Eswar
Thanks Eswar for the Reply!!!
Below query helped me to achieve this.
SELECT[Name0]
,[Full_Domain_Name0]
,[LastStateName]
,[LastAcceptanceStatusTime]
,[LastStatusTime]
,[User_Name0]
FROM [osdp232a].[dbo].[v_R_System] Hostname
JOIN [osdp232a].[dbo].[vSMS_ClientAdvertisementStatus] Numbers
ON Numbers.[ResourceID] = Hostname.[ResourceID]
where AdvertisementID = 'XXXXXX'
Order by [LastStateName]
Thanks for the update..appreciate.
Regards,
Eswar
Hi Eswar, great blog - always helpful, keep it up.
Have a question related to User Device Affinity - we have an issue where certain applications that have a requirement set (Primary device = true) the application installs for some users on their primary device, but on others where the user is the primary user of the device - the deployment status shows - Requirement : Primary device equals true - Actual Value = false.
Have confirmed that the user is the primary user of the device, have removed and re-added.
The AppIntentEval.log shows the following :
Current State = NotInstalled, Applicability = NotApplicable, ResolvedState = None, ConfigureState = NotNeeded, Title =
Any idea why this happens for some users and not all, also on some applications and not all that have this requirement?
Any pointers to what the issue might be?
Thanks
Arov
Hi Eswar
I appreciate your efforts of giving useful stuffs to all.
We are using Intune+SCCM i.e.Hybrid Intune for mobile device management. We are in need of report consist of Managed/Compliant devices from SCCM DB. We are able to pull the report with devices but it has both compliant/Non compliant and unmanaged devices of users. We found the query "SMS_R_System.MDMStatus" returns 0,1,2 as values. Could you please tell me the actual meaning of these int values
Thanks in advance
Hi Eswar,
How are you? I'm Asanka from Sri Lanka. It's a nice blog related specially to SCCM. I'm need a help from you and this is not related to any Technical issues. I'm also planing to start a blog and I like your WordPress Theme but coudn't find it from WordPress.com. Possible to share the Theme Name..
Hi Asanka,
It is paid theme from https://www.theme-junkie.com/ .you can have a look at their website for other themes and also get support from them for the theme you buy.
Regards,
Eswar
Thanks bro..
You can delete the post actually once you reply or didn’t want to reply. Since this is not relevant .. Thanks in advance..
Hi Eswar,
i am trying to deploy an application (msi) 'Symantec encription desktop' via sccm application model. the command line is as below
msiexec /i "PGPDesktop.msi" TRANSFORMS= Symantec_Encryption_Desktop_10.4.1_R01_X64.mst /qn
but it got stuck as installing and i am getting details in appenforce is as below
Waiting for process 2328 to finish. Timeout = 120 minutes.
after 120 minutes its getting failed with timeout error.
please suggest
can you try the same command line without /qn on computer manually to see if that is expecting any input or something ?
Regards,
Eswar
Hi Eswar, Great reports on MS counts. I downloaded your latest Count of MS office Version and notice that the result of 32 bit and 64 bit got flipped-flopped. Any thoughts? Thank you!! b Gary.
what you mean by flipped-flopped ? reverse the count ? Did you check the SQL code for how 32bit and 64bit is calculated have a check to see if the logic wrong or not.
How do you say the results are not correct ?
Regards,
Eswar
Thank you for the reply. Yes, 64 bit office has the number count of 32 bit and vice versa (e.g. i have 600 copies of 32bit office but listed under the 64bit row). Will look into the SQL code. Thanks again for your help.
where did they installed ? is it under c:\program files or C:\program files(x86) .
SQL Code used to determine 32 and 64bit is below
Case substring(sof.SoftwareCode0,21,1)
When '0' Then '32-bit'
When '1' Then '64-bit'
Else 'Unknown'
End
from v_GS_INSTALLED_SOFTWARE sof
Can you pick any one client that is installed with office and find the SoftwareCode0 listed in v_GS_INSTALLED_SOFTWARE as part of troubleshooting.
Regards,
Eswar
Will look into it. Your earlier scripts has the right output. Just the latest one that you posted that I am having problem. Will look into your suggestion and keep you posted. Thank you!!
Hi Eswar,
This is Senthil(worked with you in Logica).Hope you remember me?
Need help, we are facing issue in SCEP where 1901 statemessage is not sending,
and how to repair SCEPinstall.exe
Hi Senthil,
Yes ,i do remember,How are you ? for SCEP ,did you check the logs ? try to initiate the state messages on client.
Regards,
Eswar
Unable to connect to WMI (root\ccm) on remote machine ” “, error = 0x8004100e.
Execute query exec [sp_CP_SetLastErrorCode] 2097152003, 0
these lines are red. what could be the problem?
Hi Eswar, I am looking for a query generating report for Required patches based on collection, the query I am using is not filtering servers based on collection, it shows list of all servers those are having SCCM agents installed and those servers needed patches, below is my query:
Can you please help:
1. Update_Dataset1
elect Name0 as Machinename , CAST(DATEPART(yyyy,ui.DatePosted) AS varchar(255)) + '-' + RIGHT('0' + CAST(DATEPART(mm, ui.DatePosted) AS VARCHAR(255)), 2) AS MonthPosted,
ui.bulletinid [BulletinID],ui.articleid [ArticleID], ui.Title,
IsRequired=(case when css.Status=2 then 'YES' else '' end),
ui.InfoURL as InformationURL,
ui.dateposted [Date Posted]
from V_UpdateComplianceStatus css
join v_UpdateInfo ui on ui.CI_ID=css.CI_ID
left join v_CITargetedMachines ctm on ctm.CI_ID=css.CI_ID and ctm.ResourceID = css.ResourceID
left join v_FullCollectionMembership fcm on fcm.resourceid=fcm.resourceid
and fcm.Collectionid= @Collection
INNER join v_CICategories_All catall2 on catall2.CI_ID=css.CI_ID
INNER join v_CategoryInfo catinfo2 on catall2.CategoryInstance_UniqueID = catinfo2.CategoryInstance_UniqueID
and catinfo2.CategoryTypeName='UpdateClassification'
JOIN dbo.v_R_System AS vrs ON vrs.ResourceID = css.ResourceID
outer apply (
select Deadline=min(a.EnforcementDeadline)
from v_CIAssignment a
join v_CIAssignmentToCI atc on atc.AssignmentID=a.AssignmentID
and atc.CI_ID=css.CI_ID
) cdl
WHERE
css.Status=2
ORDER BY vrs.Name0
2. CollectionIDParameterinputDataset
Select CollectionID, Name from v_Collection Order by Name
Hi,
Did you look at this report? http://eskonr.com/2016/02/sccm-configmgr-ssrs-report-how-do-i-quickly-tell-if-clients-are-compliant-or-not-for-all-the-approved-patches/
this is similar to what you requested for.
Thanks,
Eswar
Hello Eswar,
Thank you for the update, I have used the query you provided and it looks good and shows the same result which query I am using
I came to know that both queries (yours and mine) are showing same result for 43 servers out of 8000+ servers in "All Systems" collection especially for missing patches(compliant/non-compliant servers)
However if I use WSUS console (old Separate server - not SCCM) and get the Needed patch report at that time I am getting needed patch report where for the same servers I do not see the missing patch (no data available) in SCCM
the query I am using is:
--------------------------------
Dataset1
=========
Select Name0 as Machinename , CAST(DATEPART(yyyy,ui.DatePosted) AS varchar(255)) + '-' + RIGHT('0' + CAST(DATEPART(mm, ui.DatePosted) AS VARCHAR(255)), 2) AS MonthPosted,
ui.bulletinid [BulletinID],ui.articleid [ArticleID], ui.Title,
IsRequired=(case when css.Status=2 then 'YES' else '' end),
ui.InfoURL as InformationURL,
ui.dateposted [Date Posted],
fcm.Collectionid
from V_UpdateComplianceStatus css
join v_UpdateInfo ui on ui.CI_ID=css.CI_ID
left join v_CITargetedMachines ctm on ctm.CI_ID=css.CI_ID and ctm.ResourceID = css.ResourceID
INNER join v_CICategories_All catall2 on catall2.CI_ID=css.CI_ID
INNER JOIN v_FullCollectionMembership fcm on fcm.resourceid=css.resourceid
INNER join v_CategoryInfo catinfo2 on catall2.CategoryInstance_UniqueID = catinfo2.CategoryInstance_UniqueID
and catinfo2.CategoryTypeName='UpdateClassification'
JOIN dbo.v_R_System AS vrs ON vrs.ResourceID = css.ResourceID
outer apply (
select Deadline=min(a.EnforcementDeadline)
from v_CIAssignment a
join v_CIAssignmentToCI atc on atc.AssignmentID=a.AssignmentID
and atc.CI_ID=css.CI_ID
) cdl
WHERE
css.Status=2
and fcm.Collectionid= @Collection
ORDER BY vrs.Name0
--------------------------------------------
Dataset2 - Query - to prompt collection Name
--------------------------------------------
Select CollectionID, Name from v_Collection Order by Name
I am stuck at this point and it delays my project deployment... So seeking your help
Thank you
Tejas Patel
you need to drill down why other servers not showing in the report.the query which i sent works in my lab and production as well.I dont see any issues. You may have to troubleshoot further on this . It will be difficult to guide you without actually looking into the environment .
Regards,
Eswar
I have found the issue and resolved as well, it was not the query . The report was stuck at somewhere else..
Thank you so much for your help in this regards....
Tejas Patel
Great,what was the issue and how did you fix it ?
Regards,
Eswar
Hey, I ran the update scan report where I found the suspect that my default domain policy was conflicting message appeared (as old WSUS settings still placed under Default policy)
I have tested by changing the group policy and it worked for me, however it took sometime to populate the report correctly but it did finally
Thank you so much
Tejas Patel
Hi Eswar - First off, your blog is amazingly helpful. As a person tasked with moving our environment from vCM to SCCM I have spent many an hour combing this site for information. Thank you.
Secondly, I have a question. Our business units like to see what updates will be applied to each machine before they sign off on the monthly patch window. Your "Computer Updates Status" report fits very closely to what I need... Is there a way to report on required updates for each server within a collection as a total report other than specifically choosing a server within said collection? I would love to have the formatting of the Computer Updates Status report but have it list each server within the chosen collection.
Thank you for any advise.
Justin Keeling
Hi Justin,
sorry for the delay in reply but yes ,it is possible to get to know about what updates needed by which server after the software update scan successfully finished by the client (server) .There is post which i did last month about similar requirement ,have you looked at it ? http://eskonr.com/2016/02/sccm-configmgr-how-to-generate-patch-compliance-report-that-shows-all-updates-for-specific-collection/ take a read,see if you still need such kind of report ,if so , you can use the SQL code to get through the required patches before you deploy.
Hi Eswar,
I would need a help in generating system last reboot servers after patching. Even through we were able to generate the report by using SQL query but the report does not capturing correct information about last reboot of servers. After discussion with multiple team members who have build sccm in our environment they had suggested me that their would be some issue in agent side or hardware inventory it could be the reason report shows wrong.. The problems is after patching the server we are getting report generated but it is not showing as rebooted instated it showing as server last rebooted on year of 2017 like that which is wrong.
We are unable to identify issue could you please help me rectifying the issue..I am follower of your blog and I dont find any issue like this google..