Recently Microsoft released questionaries' on support about Windows 8 ,windows server 2012 for Configuration Manager 2012 and Forefront Endpoint Protection. This blog post addresses the Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 support questions you’ve been asking about for Configuration Manager and Endpoint Protection. Question: Which versions of Configuration Manager will support Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012? Answer: We are adding support for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 in both System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 and Configuration Manager 2007 with SP2 (includes Configuration Manager 2007 R2 and Configuration Manager 2007 R3). This support and any required…
Author: Eswar Koneti
Here is nice report to identify computers which are with more than one partition installed on to them excludes external drives. select CS.Name0 as [Computer name], MAX(OU.System_OU_Name0)as [OU], CS.UserName0 as [Last loggedon User], FCM.Sitecode , OS.Caption0 AS [OS], OS.InstallDate0 [OS Installed Date], WS.LastHWScan [Recent Reported to sccm] from v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM CS, v_FullCollectionMembership FCM , v_GS_OPERATING_SYSTEM OS, v_RA_System_SystemOUName OU, v_GS_WORKSTATION_STATUS WS where CS.ResourceID=FCM.ResourceID and CS.ResourceID=OS.ResourceID and CS.ResourceID=OU.ResourceID and CS.ResourceID=WS.ResourceID and OU.ResourceID in (select LD.ResourceID from v_GS_LOGICAL_DISK LD where LD.Description0 not like '%ROM%' and LD.Description0 not like '%floppy%' and LD.SystemName0 not like…
Microsoft has released an update for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2). This article includes information about the contents of the update and how to obtain the update. Issues that are fixed : This update lets servers that are running Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 SP2 provide updates to computers that are running Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012. This update fixes the following issues: Installation of update 2720211 may fail if Service Pack 2 was previously uninstalled and then reinstalled. After you install update 2720221, health monitoring may fail if the WSUS server is…
Neil Peterson blogged about Cross Forest Support in #SCCM / #Configmgr 2012 into 4 series of guides and they are listed below. Introduction - Welcome to the last in this series of four articles examining cross forest support in 2012 Configuration Manager. In the previous three postings I have examined configuration options for client management across a non-trusted forest. To recap, the following scenarios or configurations have been discussed. Scenario 1 – Simple management of a small amount of know clients residing in a non-trusted forest. Scenario 2 – More complex management of a larger number of unknown clients residing…
Michael Niehaus Blogged nice post on configuring SCCM 2012 Console with MDT automatically. Here is what it says .. As part of the MDT installation process, you need to run the “Configure ConfgMgr Integration” wizard to add the MDT components into the ConfigMgr console and database. But what if you want to automate that process? Fortunately, that’s pretty easy to do using PowerShell, as the integration process really just copies some files around. See below for the attached PowerShell script, which performs the following tasks: Locates the MDT installation directory. Attempts to find the ConfigMgr 2007 console’s installation directory. If…
SCCM 2012 is now configured up to 20 Site roles which you can install/Configure on single machine or distribute to different machines for load balancing . Site server Site Database Server Site system Application Catalog Web Service Point Application Catalog Website Point Asset Intelligence Synchronization Point Component server Distribution Point Endpoint protection Point Enrollment Point Enrollment Proxy Point Fallback status Point Management Point Mobile Device Management Point Out of band service Point Reporting services Point software update point State Migration Point System health Validator Point
You have Username but unsure what is their computer name where they logged into to track it(this all happens if and only if sccm client is healthy else you see old information). This report gives you all the machines name with your supplied user names if you have bulk users to know all . Create report with below SQL code and Run Other SCCM reports based on last logged on user names http://eskonr.com/2011/03/sccm-report-for-computers-with-last-logged-on-user-from-collection/ http://eskonr.com/2011/03/sccm-report-to-list-all-computers-based-on-last-logged-on-user-name-from-collection/ SELECT GS.Name0, GS.UserName0, WS.LastHWScan, GS.Domain0, OS.Caption0, SYS.SystemRole0 FROM v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM GS, v_GS_OPERATING_SYSTEM OS, v_GS_SYSTEM SYS, v_GS_WORKSTATION_STATUS WS WHERE GS.ResourceID = SYS.ResourceID AND WS.ResourceID = GS.ResourceID AND OS.ResourceID…
Hi Everyone, This is our first post in a long while, we've had our heads down ramping up on System Center 2012 and helping the first wave of early adopters. As part of some of the work we've done, we found one common scenario where customers are looking to migrate their server patching from WSUS to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. For desktop migrations, customer are usually happy to take all updates or the majority of updates and just start fresh. For servers, they want to be sure that they only thing they pull across is whatever was approved by…