There are no questions to read for the interview if you really worked on the any technology practically unless and until to see how the questions can be framed/asked in interview. I would like to put some not all questions on SCCM 2007 since it is Huge and many questions can be framed if you gone through the SCCM Guide on TechNet . This post will keep updated on Day to Day basic with Newly Faqs. Systems Management Server 2003 Technical Frequently Asked Questions : Planning and Deployment Site Systems Clients Discovery Inventory Software Metering Software Distribution and Packaging Remote…
Author: Eswar Koneti
I has an issue with the distribution or removal packages from retired / orphaned DP where the packages are distributed to DP but the distribution point are really not on the network (retired ).Because of this, I see the red alerts on the system status with below error. Possible cause: The distribution point might not be accessible to SMS Distribution Manager running on the site server. Solution: If users are currently accessing the package files on the distribution point, disconnect the users first. you can see the below information from your site system status error messages. Package ID : IND0011B…
Having issues with hardware inventory in running on the machines ,there are several tools that does this job like Right click tools ,SMS collection commander from Zander and can use batch script given below. 1.Cretea a folder called Temp in C drive. 2.Crete a new notepad file ,add list of computers that you want to kick the hinv on and save it as Computerlist.txt in c:\Temp folder. 3.Open a notepad and paste the below code and save it as filename.bat . @echo off REM It kickoffs the hinv on to the list of machines provided WMIC /node:@c:\temp\Computerlist.txt /namespace:\\root\ccm path sms_client CALL…
If you are looking for a collection to query all the machines only from a particular OU not the SUB OU .Let say ,I have Top OU called Workstations\comp(120 systems) in eskon.net domain and in turn it has 3 sub OU's OU1(10 systems),OU2(20 systems),OU3(49 systems). Here is the simple query to get machines only from TOP OU called workstations. SELECT sms_r_system.resourceid, sms_r_system.resourcetype, sms_r_system.name, sms_r_system.smsuniqueidentifier, sms_r_system.resourcedomainorworkgroup, sms_r_system.client FROM sms_r_system WHERE sms_r_system.systemouname = "eskon.net/workstations/comp" /*find all machines in that OU (but also finds machines in subOUs */ AND sms_r_system.resourceID NOT IN (SELECT resourceID FROM sms_r_system where systemouname LIKE "eskon.net/workstations/comp/%") /*remove…
Are you looking for getting a report for a given KB numbers or MSID(like MS10-087),you can add few more lines to the existing code as like below and change the ID1 to ID2 also add a prompt to it.The same report is also applicable in SCCM but it doesn't give some columns though it has required information. SMS 2003 Patch Status report for given list of Specific MS ID, Q Number, title: select summ.Product, summ.LocaleID, summ.Language, COUNT(distinct case when ps.LastState=107 or ps.LastState=105 then ps.ResourceID else NULL end) as 'Distribution Successful', COUNT(distinct case when ps.LastState=102 then ps.ResourceID else NULL end) as…
I was searching for something to find the software update complaince to see if machines requires something to patch .as i couldnt find any such report from default reports ,so created one like below and gives me the compelet complaicne of software updates. SQL Statement select distinct sys.Name0, ui.BulletinID as BulletinID, ui.ArticleID as ArticleID, ui.Title as Title from v_UpdateComplianceStatus css join v_UpdateInfo ui on ui.CI_ID=css.CI_ID join v_R_System sys on css.ResourceID=sys.ResourceID join v_ClientCollectionMembers ccm on ccm.ResourceID=sys.ResourceID where css.Status=2 and ccm.CollectionID=@CollID order by sys.Name0, ui.ArticleID Prompts Name: CollID Prompt text: Collection ID Provide a SQL statement: begin if…
In my daily work routine,i used to work with some of the web report to present it to management as well for troubleshooting purpose.I come across with many reports that are required.some reports that have taken from the internet. Here i am listing all of the reports that are useful and will be posting more and more. Report for list of machines where static IP exists : select CS.Name0, NAC.IPAddress0 from dbo.v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM cs JOIN dbo.v_GS_NETWORK_ADAPTER_CONFIGUR NAC on CS.ResourceId = NAC.ResourceId Where NAC.IPAddress0 !='' and DHCPEnabled0 = 0 Report for list of machines where and When RAM changed ? select CS.Name0,…
The below scripts works for only Win 2000 and XP not for other operating systems .Here are the simple steps that you can achive this(getting a report for local administrators).*******test it once before taking it to production***************** 1.Go to the X:\smsinboxes\clifiles.src\hinv\sms_def.mof where X is SMS installed Drive,edit SMS_DEF.MOF file (If you have already edited it ,not changes are required .If you are doing it in SCCM environment for the first time, u can still do the same in SMS_DEF.MOF file.) 2.At the very bottom ,Add these lines to the MOF file . //***********************************Local admins*********************** //#pragma namespace ("\\\\.\\root\\cimv2\\sms") [ SMS_Report …