During month of March 2014,Microsoft released first Cumulative Update CU1 for Configmgr 2012 R2 and now ,Microsoft released 2nd Cumulative Update CU2 for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 with lot of fixes,powershell changes and some of them been modified. This Update (Cumulative Update 2) Replaces Cumulative Update 1 .If you have not installed R2 CU1 yet,you can directly go with Cumulative Update 2. Download the Cumulative Update 2 from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2970177 Description of Windows PowerShell changes in CU2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2962855 About Cumulative Update documentation,creation of collection ,refer http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj553405.aspx You can apply this update to: Central Administrative site Primary Site(Stand Alone) Primary…
Author: Eswar Koneti
Its always painful to check via reports for specific application if an assigned application successfully installed for Computer or User ,especially for GSD/helpdesk guys as they are the first point of contact for basic troubleshooting and they cannot always browse to default reports for such information and there is no straight report to give this information. I have created 2 Reports 1 ) List all applications with status for specific Computer 2) List applications with status for Specific User. These 2 reports will help you to get quick information about specific application whether it is installed /requirements not met /error…
I think ,this post is going to be one of my Favorite on Configmgr 2012 SSRS report so far i created .Question from smsforum list asking,about if there is any pre-existing report that list all applications and its dependencies.There is none from the default reports(out of 400+) and not sure why Microsoft did not include this kind of report as part of default reports. If you want to know all dependencies for specific application,you can directly get this from Configmgr 2012 console by right click on the application and choose view relationships——dependency but how to get list of applications that…
Question from configmgr technet forum : Need SQL Query for disk space <500 MB (windows drive) for servers from most recent 10 records. Whenever there is any such request on reporting ,i always make use of SQL views documentation https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SCCM-Configmgr-2012-R2-SQL-5fefdd3b. This excel sheet contains list of all SQL view+some functions that would help you to identify the information stored in where so it would be easier for you pick the right SQL views to join with other views to prepare your query. History of disk space information is stored in v_HS_LOGICAL_DISK ,where as the current inventory information is stored in…
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working on some Inventory Customizations.I need to get some registry information into Configmgr Database.For this,I have to do MOF changes to both configuration.mof and hardware inventory from Default Client settings. How to get the MOF Syntax ? I have used mark’s Regkey2mof tool .This tool will provide you both configuration.mof and clientsettings mof . with the syntax,I got from the tool, done the changes in both the places (configuration.mof and default client settings—hardware inventory and import the mof file) Monitor the log dataldr.log on the server,if the mof files are complied successfully or not. Initiated machine policy retrieval on the…
Another Configmgr 2012 SSRS Report that brings Client Health Summary.This time,it will be a dashboard instead normal SSRS report.Dashboard is nice way to display multiple reports into one report.Dashboard reports are very helpful if you want to monitor the information about client health (mainly the Count),client hardware/software,operating system,IE versions etc.You can also link all these individual reports to get list of computers with its hardware information. I created Dashboard report to get client health summary into one Page instead browsing to multiple reports when required. This report consists of several individual reports listed below: 1.Total Computers 2.Client Installed Vs Active…
Configmgr 2012 allow admins to Configure Custom Client Settings at collection level to control the behavior and functionality of the Configmgr 2012 clients. You can create as many number of Custom Client Device/User settings (9999) ,which you can apply onto collections(Device/User). What happens if client is member of multiple collections that have client settings ? All the Custom Client settings that you create are chosen with the priority. Higher the priority(1) will take over the settings with lower priority(10000). If you are going to have multiple client agent settings,focus attention else you will see undesired results. By Default,Configmgr will Configure default…