Author: Eswar Koneti

Windows 8 is now released for general availability in the market and it is really nice with its new cool features with both performance and Look. Users who experienced it for the first time may take sometime to find features/Usability with previous operating systems on day to day work but you will like it at the most . Here are some useful keyboard commands for Windows 8 that will save your time and avoid a lot of clicks. Compiled by Greg Shultz Here and Rod Trent MyItforum http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Windows-8-shortcuts.pdf

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Recently I was looking at Collection http://eskonr.com/2009/08/sccm-collection-report-for-hardware-inventory-not-reported-for-x-days/ to see how many clients have not reported inventory back to sccm since X days and I see quite number of computers did not reported but they do receive applications,patches etc. you know what would be the impact if Client did not report back inventory back to sccm particularly if you are using Query based Collection using inventory information. I picked random computer from the collection and check inventoryagent.log to start with. Below is the snippet what I can see. Note: You might see a different Error from inventoryagent.log which causes the hardware…

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  Report provide count of computers from the collections. Full Details: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgradminconsole/thread/f0cccbd7-7616-4d06-a3a6-31d4c583e2f0 SELECT v_Collection.Name ,v_Collection.Comment,v_Collection.CollectionID,COUNT(*) as [Members] FROM v_Collection,v_FullCollectionMembership where v_Collection.CollectionID=v_FullCollectionMembership.CollectionID group by v_Collection.Name ,v_Collection.Comment,v_Collection.CollectionID order by v_Collection.Name

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Having multiple sites and checking the status of WSUS synchronization on all servers tedious job and child sites must sync with its parent sites to ensure right compliance levels from clients. This report will give you the status of WSUS server with Right content version. When SCCM sync with Microsoft Updates,Content version will get increment to +1 and it passes this information to its child sites to sync with right version.   SELECT      US.SiteCode, S.ServerName, S.SiteName, US.ContentVersion, US.SyncTime FROM     update_syncstatus US, v_Site S      where US.SiteCode=S.SiteCode and US.contentversion <@Version ORDER BY     SyncTime   Prompt for @Version :…

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  Dell Safranka Recently posted Nice Article on Configmgr 2012 DP and how Single Instance Store works and how to notice them but it is in Hungarian Language ,I try to post the content in English here. The Configuration Manager 2012, the distribution points for the more efficient use of disk space to a single method of storage for file-level, single instance store. It is somewhat more difficult to check whether a particular package includes all right lejutott the distribution points. Here are the steps I want to present in this post: The installation kits for each of the folders…

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SCCM 2007 has three basic types of distribution points i.e Standard, Server Share and Branch Distribution Points.  Each role had benefits, but there was not always one type that met all the administrator requirements. This concept is now changed in SCCM 2012 and had come with one Role which is standard distribution point which merges Standard, Branch and Server Share distribution points. This Distribution Point now has a new storage format called the Content Library.  The Content Library replaces SMSPKG shares as the default folder structure to host content.  The Content Library now stores all content on the distribution point…

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In previous post,we saw how to get list of referenced task sequence packages used in Task Sequence which are incomplete. In this report,we see how to get list of Distribution Points who do not have these referenced packages used in Task Sequence so you know all these sites which do not have package may fail during the OSD Policy check. Count  : Distribution Points who do not have these packages used in Task Sequence select sitecode,COUNT(distinct packageID) as [Not Distributed] from v_PackageStatusDetailSumm PSD where PSD.Targeted='0' and PSd.PackageID in (select ReferencePackageID from v_TaskSequenceReferencesInfo where PackageID =@TS1) group by psd.SiteCode order by…

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If you have any issues with distribution of any packages to child sites or if you are in multi-tier hierarchy,You get face issues with packages not replicating to child sites due to several reasons and they will be retrying n (specific) number of times until they get right version of PCK file. Preload is Our Friend to fix Package replication issues in better way. To know more about Preload Tool  and its usage http://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/archive/2009/05/07/configmgr-2007-the-preload-package-tool-preloadpkgonsite-exe-explained.aspx How do you copy the PCK files ? Via Network Share ? sending them Via disk if you have large number of packages (this may happen…

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