The Product Group have recently announced the Beta of ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 at TechNet 2012 North America. You can view the announcement at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/MGT309 Kent blogged about new enhancements over http://blog.coretech.dk/kea/configmgr-2012-sp1-announced-teched-2012/ Enhancements include: Platform Support: Windows 8 Windows 8 tablet…

This post is going to be a something new today to publish Custom Office templates made available to all users when they open PowerPoint or Word or Excel Office applications. This can be done several ways like AD group policy…

Creating collection to get computers that starts and end with particular string is used mostly using % .If this percentile used at the end of the variable name, you get all computer names that starts from particular string and if…

Previous report list the packages which are successfully distributed to Distribution Points http://eskonr.com/2012/06/sccm-report-total-number-of-packages-targeted-to-dp/ This post gives you more information about package status for selected distribution Point. Report for packages which are Pending: select s.sitecode,s.packageid,p.name,s.sourceversion as "dpversion",p.storedpkgversion as latesteversion from v_PackageStatusDistPointsSumm…

  Full Detials : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrreporting/thread/cdfc6114-09d8-4e85-a51a-ca279a36454a SELECT v_Package.PackageID, Name,    v_DistributionPoint.LastRefreshTime     FROM v_Package INNER JOIN v_DistributionPoint ON v_Package.PackageID = v_DistributionPoint.PackageID WHERE v_DistributionPoint.ServerNALPath LIKE '%DPNAME%' Where DPNAME is Distribution point server name

If you have referred to my previous report linked report http://eskonr.com/2012/05/sccm-linked-report-count-of-computers-assigned-to-specific-ad-site/ this would be easier for you to go. You need to create 2 reports 1)Count of MS Office Versions with Service Pack 2) list the computers with MS Office…

I tried using some third party tools to download TechNet library pages for sccm 2012 sometime ago to read them offline(no internet) but i couldnt grab all the pages :(  But now MS has released the technet library pages into…

  Question from Community : When client downloaded a package into the cache and is removed from the collection with the advertisement will the content stay in the cache? Then if you put the client back into the collection later…

  Full Details :http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrgeneral/thread/7b4d3810-a262-4c63-8dd6-7cc906b85941 select sys.name0,sys.AD_Site_Name0,FCM.SiteCode,ARP.DisplayName0,ARP.Version0,ARP.InstallDate0 from V_R_system sys inner join v_Add_Remove_Programs ARP on arp.resourceID=sys.ResourceID inner join v_FullCollectionMembership FCM on FCM.ResourceID=sys.ResourceID and arp.DisplayName0 like '%project reader%' and ARP.Version0 < '4%' For collection ,follow the post here on http://eskonr.com/2012/05/sccm-collection-computers-with-lower-version-application/

Full Details http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrgeneral/thread/7b4d3810-a262-4c63-8dd6-7cc906b85941 This collection is created using sub selected queries http://eskonr.com/2011/12/sccm-collection-sub-selected-quiries/ 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 inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS on SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS.ResourceID not in (select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_ADD_REMOVE_PROGRAMS on…