Quick post on the Boundaries and its assigned Site Servers which are nothing but Distribution Points.Simply creating boundaries does not make clients to get connected to DP and download the content. you will have create assign these boundaries to boundary…

Update: This post is updated after the Configmgr 2012 R2 CU1 hotfix released as this fix will resolve the subject line Issue. I recently had interesting issue with Configmgr 2012 SP1 CU3 client.Many Optional applications in Software Center changes to…

In my previous blog post,i talked about how to compare 2 distribution points to see if they both have any applications mismatch.This blog post talks about how to distribute the missing apps to the Distribution Point. I have used basic…

Good news to Configmgr guys.Yesterday Microsoft announced another Free book called “Microsoft System Center: Troubleshooting Configuration Manager “ which talks about site hirarchy,distribution points,understanding configuration manager components,log files,troubleshooting scenarios. I think this guide will provide you to understand various components…

If you search on the web for Configmgr patch compliance report ,you get various links that talk about compliance reports ,you utilize them to start working on the customized report the way you want but i was looking for something…

Full details:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/82a7862a-fc1c-4c45-9635-ee44489c2673/file-inventory-report-query-by-name-count-and-machineid?forum=configmgrreporting   select cs.Name0 [Computer name],COUNT(*) as [No of Times] from v_GS_SoftwareFile SF,v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM cs where FileName like '%.mdf%' and SF.ResourceID=cs.ResourceID group by cs.Name0 order by 2 desc

Long ago,posted Configmgr SP1 SQL Views in spreadsheet which you can download it via post http://eskonr.com/2013/04/download-sccm-2012-sql-views-documentation/. SQL Views are very useful while working with reports and it saves lot of time in searching the particular information if you are unsure…

There was a question in forum list about how to get count of clients by its status (active,obsolete etc). I looked at it if there is any way to get it without report but No. In Configuration Manager 2007,to know…

Second Tuesday of every month called Microsoft patch Day 🙂 Patches get released and configmgr* guys busy in testing ,moving them to production. As usual, I have Downloaded the patches,added to the package,deployed to Distribution Points ,all returned success (Decompressed…

We have been seeing many hotfixes and Cumulative updates for configmgr 2012 product .For each hotfix /CU level,the client version will get change. As you test and deploy these hotfixes /CU's in your environment ,you are also required to maintain…