Thought of sharing Valuable Videos by Our SCCM Guru Wally Mead from different Locations.Worth Watching it Since there are many videos from Wally Mead On SCCM 2012 ,Posting all in One post may slow down the browsing of website initially for sometime.so splitting the videos to multiple posts with Tile of the videos in each post. System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Windows 8 Support, Wally Mead httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LTMd8H7iqM ConfigMgr 2012 Software Distribution Part 1 – With Johan httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15wPybTZvjg ConfigMgr 2012 Software Distribution Part 2 – With Johan httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kZf9gtUIkU Interview with Wally Mead about System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and SP1 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8r_Apm7sgE…
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SCCM Package Clean Up activity? When you Build SCCM in your Environment, you create lot of packages to deploy onto clients But later sometime, you get updated versions for it or no more in use. Packages which are not in use resides in Database and occupies disk space on the source server as well on the Distribution Points. As SCCM admin guy, you should look at package clean up activity once in year or so depends on the requirement. For Packages which has no advertisements, look here http://eskonr.com/2012/10/sccm-report-software-distribution-packages-with-no-advertisements/ Use this report to list packages which are not used recently…
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
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…
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
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 :…
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…
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…