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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Here is the collection that gives you a list of machines with specific staus message ID: select sys.ResourceID,sys.ResourceType,sys.Name,sys.SMSUniqueIdentifier,sys.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,sys.Client from sms_r_system as sys inner join SMS_ClientAdvertisementStatus as offer on sys.ResourceID=offer.ResourceID  WHERE AdvertisementID = 'GSA2035F' and LastStatusMessageID = 10009 10009  is success, replace…

Class security Level Vs Instance Level Security Rights You can configure the security rights either the class level or the instance level in SMS/SCCM. These rights basically helpful in providing the access to the SMS objects like collection,packages,reports and many…

some times its hard to know the systems which are having issues in reporting their inventory and even some systems doesnt reporte anything to the site server though the client is installled on it. Here is the collection which gives…