Author: Eswar Koneti

System Center 2012 SP1 (currently in CTP2) includes the following update and enhancements to the following System Center 2012 components: Virtual Machine Manager Improved Support for Network       Virtualization Extend the VMM console with       Add-ins Support for Windows       Standards-Based Storage Management Service, thin provisioning of logical       units and discovery of SAS storage Ability to convert VHD to       VHDX, use VHDX as base Operating System image Configuration Manager Support for Windows 8 Ability to deploy Windows 8       Apps Real-time administrative       actions for Endpoint Protection related tasks Data Protection Manager Improved backup performance       of Hyper-V…

Thought of sharing nice post on Task sequence replication issue to child site by Frank Rojas. Symptoms : When creating a new Task Sequence or updating an existing Task Sequence on a parent primary site in System Center Configuration Manager 2007, the Task Sequence may not replicate down to child primary sites. Packages and other Task Sequences replicate to the child primary site without issue. Examining the logs associated with site replication (despool.log, replmgr.log, sched.log, sender.log) on both the parent and child primary sites does not reveal any errors. However examining the distmgr.log on the child primary site reveals the…

In a Big environment to know/work based on regional wide kind of doing some maintenance tasks in SCCM ,this would would help you to get you the count of Child sites reporting to primary. select ReportingSiteCode ,COUNT(*) as [Child sites] from v_Site group by ReportingSiteCode order by ReportingSiteCode

The upcoming general availability of Windows 8 on Oct 26th and the launch of the new Windows App Store presents us all with the greatest Windows developer opportunities ever!  Get ready by attending a Windows 8 Developer Camp!  Developer Camps provide a great opportunity to jump start your development skills in a fun information-packed 1-day event that gives you all the tools, knowledge and guidance you need to get started. Windows 8 Developer Camps are coming soon to Detroit MI, Columbus OH and Austin TX ... Seating is very limited, so be sure to register today using the links below!…

Starting with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) has now been integrated into Configuration Manager and is called System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection. From your feedback, we have heard that some FEP customers who are now using System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection are having problems finding the information they need to install and configure Endpoint Protection. This blog post answers the questions we’ve been hearing about the documentation. A thank you to Diana Smith (a Microsoft Senior Support Escalation Engineer), for her help in working with us to get the right information to you. Where is the…

Long ago Raphael blogged nice post how to delete expired updates from Configuration Manager 2007 http://wmug.co.uk/wmug/b/dotraphael/archive/2012/04/19/script-deleteexpiredupdates.aspx but script is not available to download now with current link. This script is intended to remove all expired updates from a package or Deployment and was showed by the MVP Kent Agerlund on his presentation at MMS 2012 http://blog.coretech.dk/kea/mms-2012-simplify-your-deployments/ If you'd like to try (at your own risk), you can download it from here (just remember to remove _.txt to convert to vbs) Examples: cscript.exe DeleteExpiredUpdates.vbs /SMSProvider:CM01 /PkgID:"A010000E" cscript.exe DeleteExpiredUpdates.vbs /SMSProvider:CM01 /AssignmentID:"1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9" cscript.exe DeleteExpiredUpdates.vbs /SMSProvider:CM01 /PkgID:"A010000E" /AssignmentID:"1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9"

If you are performing SCCM cleanup activity on packages,this might help you to identify if there are any packages still available on DPs rather looking at each package manually also to check how many DP’s each package available so you can distribute the package to missing DP’s(if you have standards to ensure all packages should be on X many DP’s) SELECT PackageID, Name, Version, Manufacturer, Language, Description,PkgSourcePath , LastRefreshTime, (SELECT COUNT(PkgID) FROM vPkgStatusSummaryDistPts WHERE PkgID = v_Package.PackageID) AS [Total Number of DP’s] FROM v_Package order by [Total Number of DP’s]  desc P.S :Quotes in this post are fancy quotes,please replace…

Script to check files on remote computer and delete them if they are available. ON ERROR RESUME NEXT Set objfso = CreateObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set computerList = objfso.OpenTextFile ("C:\Scripts\computerList.txt", 1) Set outputList = objfso.OpenTextFile ("C:\Scripts\outputList.txt", 2, True) Do While Not computerList.AtEndOfStream strComputer = computerList.ReadLine If objFSO.FolderExists("\\" & strComputer & "\F$\oldfiles") Then Set strFolderPath = objFSO.GetFolder("\\" & strComputer & "\f$\oldfiles") objFSO.DeleteFolder strFolderPath, True outputList.WriteLine strComputer & vbTab & "oldfiles folder deleted" Else outputList.WriteLine strComputer & vbTab & "Oldfiles folder does not exist" End If loop Change the Bold letters as necessary.