Author: Eswar Koneti

I have seen this question asked and answered in some articles and blog posts, however, after teaching the Concepts and Admin Workshop for the new version of the product recently, and getting more familiar with the new Endpoint Protection feature in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, and I discoverd a feature in Endpoint Protection that lets you see what the default exclusions should be for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (as well as many other server types). The trick is to import the Antimalware Policy Template which I will walk you through here: From the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager…

  Connecting to Resource Explorer of Computer is always not good(takes time) to Search for computer in SCCM collection and move further.Some times you may not find the computer in the collection where you are looking at then you comeback and look in All desktops and servers which may take time  to load all computers and then offers you to search for computer. Come up with Simple Batch script that prompt you to enter Computer name and it takes you to Resource Explorer of Computer. You may require to edit the fields in Red Color for SCCM Installation Folder,SCCM server…

This post is in Continuation to previous post on Wally Mead sessions on SCCM 2012. http://eskonr.com/2012/11/sccm-2012-videos-wally-mead-sessions/ System Center Configuration Manager 2012, Managing non-Windows systems httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsl7skEII_Q SCCM GURU Webcast Series - Episode 6: Wally Mead Returns httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdKNeNIagn0 Wally Mead, System Center Configuration Manager 2012, QA httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdKNeNIagn0 System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Overview, Wally Mead httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTqWBFrxLXs How to make a successful ConfigMgr implementation, Wally Mead httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya5kF6NIuPs Rest walkthrough on http://eskonr.com/2012/11/sccm-2012-videos-wally-mead-finlan/

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…

  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