You can take a remote of any SCCM client by disabling the Firewall. But for security reasons/project requirement,the windows firewall should be ON,in this case,you can not do remote control from SMS/SCCM.Either you should disable the firewall or enable the…

Below are the basic log files (more understandable way) that are helpful in troubleshooting the client issues if there are any application instllation failure/inventory and other issues.This information has been compiled from Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 867490 A list of windows update…

Here are some webcasts related to ConfigMgr and deployment in general. ConfigMgr - Prerequisites Before Installation Installing SQL Server on a Server other than the ConfigMgr Primary Installing SQL 2005 SP2 Local to the ConfigMgr Primary Server In-Place Upgrade of…

This gives list of machines where the group policy database file not updated .Before creating the SCCM web report,software inventory has to be enabled for GPO file secedit.sdb file which will is available in  %windir%\security\database. collection(WQL): select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID ,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType ,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name…

This Report will help you in identifying the collection that are member of any other parent collection. SELECT COL.CollectionID, COL.Name, COL.Comment, CTSC.parentCollectionID FROM dbo.v_Collection COL, dbo.v_CollectToSubCollect CTSC WHERE CTSC.subCollectionID = COL.CollectionID The above report is to get collection with its…

Gives list of computers where Programs installed recently. SELECT CS.Name0, CS.UserName0, ISW.ProductName0, ISW.VersionMajor0, ISW.VersionMinor0, ISW.Publisher0, ISW.RegisteredUser0, ISW.InstallDate0, ISW.InstallSource0 FROM dbo.v_GS_COMPUTER_SYSTEM CS, dbo.v_GS_INSTALLED_SOFTWARE ISW WHERE ISW.ResourceID = CS.ResourceID ORDER BY ISW.InstallDate0 DESC, CS.Name0, CS.UserName0, ISW.ProductName0

  Select  Sys.Name0, Sys.SMSID0, Sys.Domain0, Sys.SystemRole0 from dbo.v_GS_SYSTEM Sys Where   Sys.SMSID0 = @GUID Prompt for GUID: select SMS_Unique_Identifier0 from v_R_System

SELECT ISC.NormalizedPublisher, ISC.NormalizedName, ISC.NormalizedVersion, ISC.CategoryName, count(*) as ‘count’ FROM dbo.v_GS_Installed_Software_Categorized ISC WHERE ISC.FamilyName In (‘Unidentified’,'Uncategorized’) group by ISC.NormalizedPublisher, ISC.NormalizedName, ISC.NormalizedVersion, ISC.CategoryName order by ISC.NormalizedPublisher, ISC.NormalizedName, ISC.NormalizedVersion, ISC.CategoryName

Query based versus Direct membership: Direct membership rules should be created when you want to target a very specific user or SMS client. Direct membership rules are not automatically updatable; therefore, any change of targeted resources is a manual process.…

  There are cases,where a computer might be added to different collection and it would be difficult to find out the computer is member of which collections.Try this report to list all the collection the computer member of. select a.CollectionId,…