Author: Eswar Koneti

Thought of sharing nice article on client remediation and Inventory posted by Anil K on TechNet blog. Inventory reports with stale records have been one of the pain areas for Administrators. The poor client health with no auto-remediation and inefficiently configured maintenance tasks are major reasons behind it. Configuration Manager 2012 is going to be the true friend of IT administrators and managers when it comes to address these challenges. Here I'll talk about some key strengths of CM 2012 to improve your reporting accuracy when it comes to inventory reports, deployment status reports and other reports. System Discovery: System…

Via http://eskonr.com/trainings-webcasts/sccm-2007/ Configuration Manager SP1 and R2 Overview (Level 300) Level 300 Deploying and Upgrading to ConfigMgr (Part 1 of 2) Level 300 Deploying and Upgrading to ConfigMgr (Part 2 of 2) Level 300 Deploying Operating Systems with ConfigMgr (Part 1 of 2) Level 300 – With John Baker Deploying Operating Systems with ConfigMgr (Part 2 of 2) Level 300 – With John Baker Deploying Operating Systems with ConfigMgr (Part 1 of 2) Level 300 – With Keith Combs Deploying Operating Systems with ConfigMgr (Part 2 of 2) Level 300 – With Keith Combs Deploying Operating Systems with ConfigMgr 2007…

Via http://eskonr.com/trainings-webcasts/sccm-2007/ What’s coming in ConfigMgr ConfigMgr – Prerequisites Before Installation Using Configuration Manager 2007 to Perform Your Most Common and Critical Desktop Management Tasks Installing SQL Server on a Server other than the ConfigMgr Primary Installing SQL 2005 SP2 Local to the ConfigMgr Primary Server In-Place Upgrade of SMS 2003 SP3 with the ITMU to ConfigMgr Mixed Mode Configuring PKI and Installing ConfigMgr in Native Mode How to Properly Upgrade from ConfigMgr Base to SP1 First Steps After ConfigMgr Installation Deploying and Configuring a Secondary Site How to Deploy the ConfigMgr Client to Target Machines How to Remove the…

Symptoms: When you use the Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 Group Policy Tool to import a policy file that was exported from System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection, it will fail with a screenshot similar to the following : Cause: The XML namespace is missing and a couple of registry value types have changed in System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection, which results in the error. Resolution: Perform the following changes manually Add "xmlns="http://forefront.microsoft.com/FEP/2010/01/PolicyData"" in the "SecurityPolicy" section of the policy file. Open the policy file, in the “AddKey Name="SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Microsoft Antimalware\Signature Updates"” section, replace “FallbackOrder” type “REG_DWORD” with “REG_SZ”. Open the policy…

Good to see the content on Wiki Article about all System Center 2012 configuration Manager at one place from http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7075.system-center-2012-configuration-manager-survival-guide.aspx Introduction What is a survival guide? It’s a page we created as a pointer to the best information on the web. You can use the information below to learn the fundamentals; increase your current knowledge; or stay current on Configuration Manager and events. And, if you think we missed some great article out there, please add it below! Getting Started Introduction to Configuration Manager What’s New in Configuration Manager Fundamentals of Configuration Manager Supported Configurations Understanding the content library in…

Documentation for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Features : Many of our existing Configuration Manager customers are used to thinking in terms of installing and configuring sites, and then configuring individual features, such as hardware inventory, software distribution, and software updates. This reflected the product evolution and our internal development teams, as functionality was added over the years. It was also reflected in the management console, with new nodes for each feature. As the product grew, the number of nodes in the console increased and made it challenging to navigate. The new design of the Configuration Manager console in System…

SCCM client cache is location where it stores the packages on the client before any application runs from it. The default location for the Configuration Manager client cache is %windir%\ccmcache and the default disk space is 5120 MB. The Configuration Manager client downloads the content for required software soon after it receives the deployment but waits to run it until the deployment scheduled time. At the scheduled time, the Configuration Manager client checks to see whether the content is available in the cache. If content is in the cache and it is the correct version, the client always uses this…

long ago have posted report on computers with SCCM report for Last logged on computer name with application installed or not and SCCM report display computers with IPaddress based on Application/software this report gives you computers with ip address and last logged on username from a given collection : select A.Name0,c.IPAddress0 as 'IP ADDRESS',E.UserName0 as 'Lastlogged user' from v_R_System A inner join v_FullCollectionMembership B on A.ResourceID=B.ResourceID Inner join v_GS_NETWORK_ADAPTER_CONFIGUR  C ON A.ResourceID=C.ResourceID Inner join v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM E ON A.ResourceID=E.ResourceID where CollectionID=@COLLID and C.IPEnabled0='1' and c.ipaddress0 !='0.0.0.0' group by A.Name0,c.IPAddress0 ,E.UserName0 Prompt for collection: Select CollectionID,Name from v_Collection Note: Please replace…