Author: Eswar Koneti

There are lot of tools available like SCCM client center or Collection commander or Right Click Tools etc. to trigger SCCM client agent Actions using these tools but the customer environment doesn’t have any of these tools to use and we had a requirement to run the machine policy and other actions items as well. I have used the below script to run(ex:Machine policy and evaluation cycle or hardware inventory action etc) on a list of computers that you have supplied in notepad.txt using psexec tool.The script reset the hardware inventory action and deletes the instance before running hardware inventory.…

are you looking for smsts.log file while running SCCM OSD Task sequence. smsts.log file will move on to different places when OS is deploying depending on the progress of the build and the architecture of the OS:.it cont sit in one place 🙂 Below lists the location of smsts.log while deploying the OS*: -->Windows PE before HDD format: x:\windows\temp\smstslog\smsts.log -->Windows PE after HDD format: x:\smstslog\smsts.log and copied to c:\_SMSTaskSequence\Logs\Smstslog\smsts.log ->After Windows OS deployed but before SCCM agent installed: c:\_SMSTaskSequence\Logs\Smstslog\smsts.log -->Both Windows OS(x86) and SCCM agent installed: c:\windows\ccm\logs\Smstslog\smsts.log -->Both Windows OS(x64) and SCCM agent installed: c:\windows\ccm\logs\Smstslog\smsts.log -->After Task Sequence has finished…

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When you install SMS or SCCM client,clients need to authenticate their management point prior to establishing communications to prevent attackers from inserting rogue management points and redirecting clients to them to get it . sometimes,client will fail to identify its management point which is tracked in locationservices.log file which requires attention could be issues like boundaries etc. there are cases,where client might require to assign from its current hierarchy to different hierarchy but the certificates might be exist with old hierarchy and you mush reset it before it communicates with New. To remove the trusted root key On the client…

In Previous post ,we have seen Installation of Microsoft Application Virtulisation (4.6) Desktop Client  In this Post ,We will see how to Configure settings of App-V Desktop Client and its Basic Troubleshooting Steps: If you want to change the settings that are specified at the time of installation of App-V client  Or any customization do be done,you can do that Via Management Console(SftCMC) which is located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Application Virtualization Client. Click Start | Administrative Tools | Application Virtualization Client click on Properties . General Tab : If you want to record only error or warning messages,you can…

In Previous Guide,we have seen how to Install App-V 4.6 Management Server in windows Server 2008 and How to Publish the Default app-V applications in windows server 2008   to users. In this Guide we will see how to Install App-V desktop Client(4.6) on Windows 7 to receive published application from App-V server. Before we proceed to run the Setup file,check the link for Client Hardware and Software Requirements http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc843822.aspx One you have all the components in place ,Get a App-V desktop client 4.6 from Microsoft and Extract it before Run. Run the setup wizard which will scan for and prompt…

  Below is the report to list computers with IP address and Subnet information from Given collection. select distinct A.Name0,c.IPAddress0 ,D.IP_Subnets0 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_RA_System_IPSubnets D ON A.ResourceID=D.ResourceID where CollectionID=@COLLID and C.IPEnabled0='1' group by A.Name0,c.IPAddress0 ,D.IP_Subnets0 order by A.Name0,c.IPAddress0 ,D.IP_Subnets0 Prompt for Collection : Select CollectionID,Name from v_Collection

When you assign any advertisement (either application or Task sequence) to collection(Group of computers) ,all the advertisement will be tracked(logged) in SCCM Database with its status and other details.The advertisement will run on the computer and gives the status of it which can be find Via Default reports “All advertisement for specific computer(Report ID:126)”. What ,if you move the advertisement to different different collection where the computers(which you advertised above) are not part of this collection and you want to track all the advertisements that are currently assigned to specific computer. You can get this currently assigned advertisements by simply…