Author: Eswar Koneti

Sometimes pushing app-v Application doesn't work on some machines and when looked at virtualapp.log file,you will see something like below. “Failed to open the WMI namespace [root\microsoft\appvirt\client]” from C:\Windows\SysWOW64\CCM\Logs\VirtualApp.log. What does the above Error says ? The WMI namespace was not created during the install of the App-V Client. You can verify it by typing wmimgmt.msc from your RUN command . If You want to connect to Remote Computer ,try below. Right click on the WMI Control and select properties, click on the Security Tab: Go to Root—>Microsoft ,you see appvirt is missing from it. So ? How do you…

Microsoft Office 2013 (Office 15.0) is now available for consumers !! For download, click HERE and for MSDN members HERE Languages pack and others download http://search.microsoft.com/en-us/DownloadResults.aspx?q=office%202013&ftapplicableproducts=^Office Deployment guide for Office 2013 Preview download : http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/8/B/48B0E72E-11C0-4E6E-AA23-6B777FADCF7A/Deployment-guide-for-Office-2013-Preview.pdf To read more about System Requirements ,visit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee624351(office.15).aspx Original post, please read http://www.system-center.fr/?p=3240

I had requirement to check for some specific packages if their programs are used in any other packages or not . Take an example that ,Microsoft visual C++ is prereq for multiple applications and to know what packages used this specific VC++ ,it will be hard to find all parent packages using VC++ as dependency program. How do we get list of all packages that are using specific application as dependency ? in this case it is VC++. In SCCM ,depedent programs are stored in view called 'v_Program' with column name 'DependentProgram' .So we can use this view to…

This script requires one notepad file(Input) with list of machines you need for and output(CSV Format) will be opened once the script runs. Set fso=CreateObject("scripting.filesystemobject") Set objinputfile=fso.OpenTextFile("eskonr.txt",1,True) Set objoutputfile=fso.OpenTextFile("servicestatus.csv",2,True) Do While objinputfile.AtEndOfLine <> True strcomputer=objinputfile.ReadLine Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:"_     & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")     Set colRunningServices = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Service WHERE DisplayName like 'SMS Agent Host'")     objoutputfile.WriteLine("computer name:" & strcomputer)     For Each objService in colRunningServices         If Len(objservice.displayname) >= 40 Then     objoutputfile.WriteLine(Left(objService.DisplayName,40)&vbTab & objService.State)     Else     objoutputfile.WriteLine(objService.DisplayName & Space(40-Len(objService.DisplayName))& vbtab& objService.State)     'Wscript.Echo objService.DisplayName  & VbTab & objService.State     End if    …

Full Details : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrreporting/thread/188bb324-9217-4fa6-b814-06a3d353bf52 Boundary information (AD Site) added . select distinct v_GS_SYSTEM.Name0 as 'Computer Name',A.AD_Site_Name0, substring(AccountName0,charindex('Domain=',Accountname0)+8,(charindex('Name=',Accountname0)-charindex('Domain=',Accountname0)-10)) as 'Domain Name', substring(AccountName0,len(AccountName0)-charindex('"',reverse(AccountName0),2)+2,charindex('"',reverse(AccountName0),2)-2) as 'User Name' from v_GS_SYSTEM INNER JOIN v_GS_LocalAdmins ON v_GS_SYSTEM.ResourceID = v_GS_LocalAdmins.ResourceID INNER JOIN v_R_System A ON v_GS_SYSTEM.ResourceID=A.ResourceID JOIN v_FullCollectionMembership FCM on v_gs_system.ResourceID = FCM.ResourceID where (AccountName0 not like '%Administrator%' AND AccountName0 not like '%Domain Admins%') and FCM.CollectionID='SMSC1003'

Did you ever find difficulty in identifying the site system information when you have multi-tier hierarchy like  central,multiple primary sites and each primary has primary and secondary sites. It is difficult to identify and check for site settings (like discovery,Site maintenance Tasks etc.) OR Site Component Information until you know all site verywell . To make it little easy,I have created a report that gives you hierarchy design information along with site system status. Select C.servername,b.SiteCode,C.SiteName,C.ReportingSiteCode, b.Updated 'Time Stamp',C.InstallDir, Case b.Status When 0 Then 'OK' When 1 Then 'Warning' When 2 Then 'Critical' Else ' ' End AS 'Site Status',…

From SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012,lot many features and the way console design is completely different. With the features change, lot many log files changed/ New from sccm 2007. SCCM 2012 client log files location has been changed from system32/SYSWOW64 to windows (%windir%) directory. The following log files can be found from SCCM 2012 log folder location. I have taken MS link as reference for these log files. CAS.log : Content Access service. Maintains the local package cache on the client. Ccm32BitLauncher.log : Records actions for starting applications on the client marked as "run as 32bit". CcmEval.log : Records Configuration…

SCCM 2012 SDK provides information applicable to administrators who want to automate Configuration Manager through script and to developers adding features and extensions to base Configuration Manager functionality. Configuration Manager SDK contains documentation and samples that are useful in developing applications that access and modify Configuration Manager data. It also provides comprehensive reference material for each Configuration Manager feature. This download contains documentation, samples, and reference material. For the latest SDK documentation and reference material, visit the Configuration Manager SDK section of MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh948960.aspx. What's New in the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SDK : The significant changes in the…